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"These days, plenty of people can work from anywhere. So, if you can work from anywhere, does it really matter where you work? As Melody Warnick has found from personal experience, in some ways it matters more than ever. If You Could Live Anywhere examines the powerful relationship between how we work and where we live. With a light voice and easy-to-understand tips, Warnick helps the reader develop a location strategy that puts them in the right...
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At age thirty-seven, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was. She tells of her fear, confusion, and bewilderment as well as the dignity and great resourcefulness of people in oppressive and demeaning circumstances. Written with her husband, Jeanne delivers a powerful first-person account that reveals her search for the meaning of Manzanar.
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"In 2010, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake. She flew from fer adopted home of Ireland back to her birtghplace in Iran so her 14-month-old daughter, Rojha, could be introduced to the child's father. When the violent and unstable and violent refused to allow his daughter to leave ans demanded taht Samieh renew their relationship, a two-week holiday became a desperate five-year battle to get her daughter out of Iran ... [This] is the ... story of...
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A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. But long before he braved new...
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Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
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This documentary history provides a treatment of the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians in 1838 from their lands in the southeastern United States to what later became Oklahoma. Drawn from diverse sources - Cherokee writings, government documents, speeches, and newspaper articles - the selections present a variety of perspectives on this episode in American history. An introductory essay provides background information on racial attitudes, economic...
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After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in Southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
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It is October 1, 1838. John Ross, the Chief of the great Cherokee Nation, is looking at his home for last time. All around him, people are loading covered wagons. Soon the last bundle is packed and the last horse is hitched. John Ross and the group of Cherokee people he is leading are ready to begin the long march west. The Cherokee people do not want to leave the land they love. But they don't have a choice. Today is their first day on the Trail...
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Accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs, an account of the U.S. Military's forcible removal of the Navajo to a tiny reservation in east-central New Mexico, hundreds of miles from their traditional homeland, traces the routes of their journey and describes the devastation suffered by the people both along the way and in the camp.
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