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 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American DreamBest Price: $6.95 Although very well written, the book reads like a self congratulatory thesis. I wanted to learn... |  Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and InheritanceBest Price: $8.44 In terms of insight to the man, it is a rather disappointing memoir. Not to take anything away... |  Night (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $4.19 Very well written. Gets to the point. This is the FIRST book I've read (other than Diary of Anne... |  Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them TogetherBest Price: $8.73 This is an incredibly inspiring story, both of an African American man who overcame incredible... |  The Color of Water 10th Anniversary EditionBest Price: $7.18 loved this book. my son is also bi-racial. i was born in 1956 and could really relate and... |
 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlBest Price: $2.00 a wonderful story told by an innocent child. it is a must read for all generations |  The Six Wives of Henry VIIIBest Price: $10.42 Alison Weir's well-written, easy to read book about the Six Wives of Henry the VIII is an... |  Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning LifeBest Price: $12.10 I bought this for my son who really does not read much. He completed the book and the study... |  Persepolis: The Story of a ChildhoodBest Price: $6.89 I feel I learned more about the history of Iran through the eyes of a little girl who was... |  I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsBest Price: $2.70 We are the members of the South Mill Young Readers Book Club located in Conyers, Georgia. We... |
 Wild Swans : Three Daughters of ChinaBest Price: $6.43 I won this great book when I was 18 years old. Until today, after almost two decades, I can... |  The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former SlavesBest Price: $17.37 I had just finished reading Complicity (The North's involvment in the slave trade) when this... |  Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds HistoryBest Price: $7.00 As a Jew Living in Israel, holocaust related books are important to read, but it's hard to do it... |  Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II InternmentBest Price: $2.00 Farewell to Manzanar is the autobiography of Jeanne Wakatsuki, who was seven years old in 1942,... |  The Autobiography of Malcolm X : As Told to Alex HaleyBest Price: $3.98 I read this book along time ago and still retain alot of what I learned from it. There is no... |
 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in BooksBest Price: $1.50 Fantastic book, not only does she give u a real insight into her experiences during a key period... |  A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy LeagueBest Price: $6.74 The protagonist makes no excuses for himself. I love that. I think he realised early on (after... |  The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother YunBest Price: $7.94 I loved what Brother Yun said when he said "Chinese Christians are persecuted by beatings... |  Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted DaughterBest Price: $2.67 I couldn't put this book down, being 1/2 chinese myself I loved the historical comments found in... |  Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and YouthBest Price: $8.21 Often when you see books written about the life of black people in any point and time before the... |
 Angela's Ashes: A MemoirBest Price: $3.75 "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of... |  The Complete Maus: A Survivor's TaleBest Price: $19.30 Although I am not Jewish I feel the same as the Jews that Holocaust books MUST be read. I was... |  The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)Best Price: $8.86 Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who,... |  Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in AmericaBest Price: $7.32 This book started out funny and interesting and ended the same. At times I wished for more... |  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among GhostsBest Price: $5.10 The women ancestors of a geeky Chinese-American girl pile up impressive resumes, no worries ! ... |
 Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the StreetsBest Price: $14.17 I found the book to be very good, however I thought it could have been better. While it... |  Roots: The Saga of an American FamilyBest Price: $4.00 I read this book on Kindle a couple of months ago. I remember watching the mini series as a kid... |  Enrique's JourneyBest Price: $8.08 First things first: I need to address that I am reviewing the BOOK, based on my experience of... |  Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson StoryBest Price: $2.16 This is an excellent read for young adults onward. Interwoven in all of Dr. Carson's stories is... |  The Bookseller of KabulBest Price: $3.99 This is the depiction of a real Afghani family written by a journalist that wound up in... |
 My Grandfather's Son: A MemoirBest Price: $7.86 If anyone you know tells you they can't make it in America buy this book for them and tell them... |  Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and AbroadBest Price: $11.00 This is a fast reading book with lots of humor about an Iranian family that comes to live in... |  Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)Best Price: $6.11 One (two actually since there are two volumes) of the best submissions about the Holocaust which... |  The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's AmericaBest Price: $8.61 My son, Jeremy, always gives me good books. He doesn't just pick up the latest best-seller, but... |  Origins: A MemoirBest Price: $13.00 I am amazed with the speed and proffesionalism of delivering and quality of the transaction. ... |
 Man's Search For MeaningBest Price: $2.66 This is a wonderful book to read merely because of it's main message. Read it and find out the... |  Man's Search for MeaningBest Price: $3.44 From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum",... |  Survival In AuschwitzBest Price: $3.41 My review of this classic emphasizes matters not raised by previous reviewers, and is based upon... |  Black Like MeBest Price: $7.45 Before there was comic "Soul Man" etc., there was this 50's investigative memoir about... |  I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The HolocaustBest Price: $2.16 The book shows plenty of emotions of their loved ones being lost. Livia wrote her memory into a... |
 The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $1.00 Brilliantly written novel! But than nothing less could be expected from Sidney Poitier. Also for... |  Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning LifeBest Price: $8.99 I bought this for my son who really does not read much. He completed the book and the study... |  Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. HistoryBest Price: $15.48 Like Traces of the Trade, the authors lack the courage to jump in, and like the stink of Zen,... |  The Lost: A Search for Six of Six MillionBest Price: $3.50 One of the best and most treasurable books on the subject of memory and the Holocaust, this is a... |  The Life and Death of Anne BoleynBest Price: $12.26 Anne Boleyn was undoubtedly one history's most fascinating woman. She was not conventionally... |
 Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War IIBest Price: $15.55 Crafting narrative non-fiction, especially in an historical context, is extremely challenging.... |  Breaking ThroughBest Price: $2.95 I am an ESL teacher who works with 7th and 8th grade, primarily male, Latino and Hmong students.... |  Foreskin's Lament: A MemoirBest Price: $2.84 Auslander is incredibly funny in his "memoir". I originally came across him in a GQ... |  Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom RidersBest Price: $25.71 This is a unique piece of literature that gives you a sense of pride for those unsung heroes of... |  The PactBest Price: $6.99 I picked up this book after my wife and I started a group reading with my son of the book;... |
 Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South AfricaBest Price: $5.00 I really enjoyed reading about this mans triumph to overcome the odds and to follow destiny... |  Blood Done Sign My Name: A True StoryBest Price: $8.25 I read this book for a college course and found it shocking and heartbreaking. I grew up very... |  A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't WinBest Price: $4.79 Shelby Steele is among a long ago generation that prefers using old arguments to push back... |  Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of VietnamBest Price: $7.95 Catfish and Mandala hit close to home. My mother's family live in Vung Tau. So, when I read... |  Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway MountainBest Price: $13.24 This book has touched me. The main character is morally strong, and the result of his strength... |
 On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American FamilyBest Price: $8.97 I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4... |  Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese DaughterBest Price: $2.89 Although there are hundreds of reviews, I had to review this book because it had such an impact... |  American Son: My StoryBest Price: $12.97 The autobiography on "The Golden Boy," who parlayed his pugilistic skills into... | ||
Ethnic & National Books
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