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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories, and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.
"I think that our immigration system should be fixed so that hard working people who have fled their home countries because of economic or political reasons. should be able to become citizens in a couple of years without spending thousands of dolla..."
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"For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a...
"Firsthand account of a Holocaust survivor who knew Anne Frank."--Kirkusreviews.com.
"The astonishing story of Dr. Josephine Janina Mehlberg--a Jewish mathematician who saved thousands of lives in Nazi-occupied Poland by masquerading as a Polish aristocrat--drawing on Mehlberg's own unpublished memoir. World War II and the...
