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The Pact
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As teenagers from a rough part of Newark, New Jersey, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins had nothing special going for them except loving mothers (one of whom was a drug user) and above-average intelligence. Their first stroke of luck was testing into University High, one of Newark's three magnet high schools, and their second was finding e... »
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
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This book is required reading for my daughters freshman high school English course. Amazon didnt carry the 'cliffnotes' yet I found another seller through Amazon; of course, then the books were shipped separately. Excellent topic considering our local Japanese-American history during WWII.... »
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
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I heard this book was good, but didn't know how good it actually was until I read it. There isn't a dull page. What's most alarming about the book is not necessarily the events that take place, as many movies about this lifestyle have been made since the book's first publishing, sort of numbing the harsh realities of gang life to even o... »
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from
Ron Suskind won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1995 for his stories on Cedric Jennings, a talented black teenager struggling to succeed in one ... »
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chine
Snow White's stepmother looks like a pussycat compared to the monster under which Adeline Yen Mah suffered. The author's memoir of life in mainland China ... »
A Tale of Love and Darkness
This is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and style. The reader will feel that he or she is personally e... »
The Pimp
a fascinating read, the ultimate anti hero. a copmelling insigth into a real life character that is both praised and vilified. the best feature is the sin... »
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin Americ
Che Guevara... Whether you respect him or not there is absolutely no denying the fact that he had a profound impact on the history of Central America and ... »
'Tis: A Memoir
The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America... »
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visio
Winston Churchill was not a likable or even an admirable man.He was dishonest,childish,ruthless and disloyal.Perhaps worst of all,he was a megalomaniac-he... »
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