| 1. |  | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Customer Review:
I read this book as a requirement of nursing school, but I thoroughly enjoyed it... It will captivate anyone with a heart/soul. I might even read it again later in my career- I really enjoyed the exposure to cultural competence. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
from Spiegel & Grau
Price: $17.16
Customer Review:
I just finished reading Factory Girls. It had received a 5 star rating in a magazine review and I thought it might be good. It really was. I am a big lover of Chinese movies, and thought this book would provide a background between the old and the new. It didn't disappoint. My only critical thing... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. | ![]() | The Wretched of the Earth
from Penguin Books Ltd
Customer Review:
This is the most amazing book I've ever read. I went to France for the sole purpose of learning french so that I could read this book. However, this is the worst and most disappointing translation I have ever seen. It has been re-written and re-authored in a postmodernist discourse that is untrue to... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Devil's Highway: A True Story
from Back Bay Books
Price: $11.19
Customer Review:
Urrea writes a compelling and insightful, account of the disastrous trek across the border ending in the death of 14 Mexican hopefuls. The narrative begins with a brief look into the Border Patrol Agent(s)/Agency and various fragile border dynamics. The meat of the book comes in the second half and... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
from Anchor
Price: $11.20
Customer Review:
This book is an easy read. Packed full of easy to understand information about radical islam. This used book was in great shape. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Enrique's Journey
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I picked this up, only to put it down after a few pages. The author's rather melodramatic approach made the story seem more like a cheap, badly-written novel than a nonfiction account. I just didn't see any sense that the author had 'connected' with the subject, and so I couldn't connect with it,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
from Penguin Press HC, The
Price: $18.87
Customer Review:
In Chapter 19 of this book, the chapter opens with a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding the conduct of the war. He said that he may be entirely inconsitent, and furthermore, he was prefectly willing to mislead and tell untruths if it would have help win the war. That statement is a perfect... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
from Oneworld Publications
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
The 1st and only ethnic cleansing of "Palestine" occurred in Hebron, against native Jews in August of 1929 and resulted in the deaths of scores of Jews, including the expulsion of hundreds from their homes and neighborhoods. Ilan Pappe will not even admit that Arab leaders started the war in 1948,... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | 'Tis: A Memoir
from Scribner
Price: $10.92
Customer Review:
More "Oliver Twist" than "The Wizard of Oz" this book is not for the faint of heart. McCourt's autobiography "Angela's Ashes" had a Hollywood ending with the young immigrant (McCourt) arriving in New York to start a new life. It left readers with such high hopes. His second book "Tis" lacks the... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
from Bantam
Price: $13.60
Customer Review:
This book changed my image of both men. I belive it removed the polish and made them human. Their strength was in the fact that both men could fall so far down and climb back to the top over and over again. | 4.0 / 5.0
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