Through the eyes of one of its own, Stewing in the Melting Pot will touch the hearts of all who have lived between two cultures and who have never felt completely accepted by the mainstream American culture. This is the story of a Mexican-American family struggling to survive in pre-and post-World War II America. Robert Sanabria was four years old when his mother took her four children and fled from an abusive husband in Texas to Los Angeles. ...

The explosive true story of Alaya's passionate 20-year affair with a Catholicpriest is rendered in exquisite prose. 16 photos. ...

It is sometimes thought that Kerry people are molded by the physical strains of mountains and angry seascapes, and that this wild, untamed structure intensifies their vision and inspiration. Valerie O'Sullivan's highly individual portraits of her chosen subjects captures them in full flow, featuring atmospheric photographs, a short biography, and their own personal reflection, poem, or personal thought. Among those included, unknown and ...

Lively and entertaining stories bring to life the Asian American experience in the twentieth century. ...

The classic autobiography of Frederick Douglass joins the the affordable Pocket Books Enriched Classics series, which offer such features as a chronology of the author's life and career; a critical analysis; discussion questions; and a list of recommended related reading. ...

In the richly evocative tradition of the bestselling "Reading Lolita in Tehran," this is a story of a family that had the courage to dream impossible dreams and to make them come true against impossible odds. ...

TO THE UNKNOWN GOD REVEALS THE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY INDIANS WHO FOLLOW JESUS CHRIST IN A HINDU CULTURE AND SHOWS HOW THEIR FAITH TRIUMPHS - PRODUCING DYNAMIC WITNESSES FOR CHRIST. ...

1928. A collection of biographies of significant Jews including: Louis D. Brandeis, Henry Morgenthau, Louis Lipsky, Stephen S. Wise, Ludwig Lewisohn, Felix Adler, Aaron Sapiro, Louis Marshall, and Nathan Straus.
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Nearly 30 years after his mother died at age 50, the acclaimed author of "JewVs. Jew" set out to discover everything he could about her lost life. This isthe poignant, unflinching chronicle of what he found. ...

When the Tiger Weeps is a far-ranging journey -- with autobiographical roots -- through disparate cultures; a history beginning in the West with the American Civil War and culminating in the wisdom-sage tradition of the Far East. Along the way -- in poetry, prose, and translations -- the work dramatizes individual and collective responses to oppression -- war, tyranny and social injustice -- and the triumphs and tragedies of those responses. ...