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Product Description: A unique and exquisitely wrought story of one multiracial woman’s journey to discover and embrace herself in a family that sought to deny her black heritage, Sil Lai Abrams shares her story in Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity—an account that will undoubtedly ignite conversation on race, racial identity, and the human experience...read more

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9781451688467, titled "Black Lotus: A Woman's Search for Racial Identity" | Karen Hunter, August 2, 2016, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A unique and exquisitely wrought story of one multiracial woman’s journey to discover and embrace herself in a family that sought to deny her black heritage, Sil Lai Abrams shares her story in Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity—an account that will undoubtedly ignite conversation on race, racial identity, and the human experience.

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Hardcover:

9781476709123 | Atria Books, February 4, 2014, cover price $24.99

Paperback:

9781476709130 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, December 2, 2014), cover price $15.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781494564766 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, August 25, 2015), cover price $29.99

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Product Description: Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity. "Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined...read more

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9781615992331 | Modern History Pr, August 31, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity.

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Hardcover:

9780061999864 | Amistad Pr, June 19, 2012, cover price $27.99

Paperback:

9780061999871 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, April 9, 2013), cover price $16.99

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Product Description: Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness. Does he remember this? Or remember being told? Regardless, he feels it, and will feel it again, bomb bay wind buffeting his eighteen-year-old body a mile above an old volcano’s jagged debris, and yet again, staring at photos of Korean orphans, huddled homeless in a blizzard after a bombing in which, at twenty-five, he’d refused an order to join...read more

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9780803245921 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bullet-shattered glass clatters onto his baby bed; he wakes and cries out into darkness.

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Product Description: The author describes her experiences growing up with an African American father and an Italian American mother, examines her mixed-race identity, and offers essays focusing on art, music, and identity.

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9781609381608 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 15, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The author describes her experiences growing up with an African American father and an Italian American mother, examines her mixed-race identity, and offers essays focusing on art, music, and identity.

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Hardcover:

9780547327938 | Houghton Mifflin, May 16, 2011, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9780547747606 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 3, 2012), cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up...read more

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9780312628390, titled "A Princess Found: An American Family, and African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All" | 1 edition (Griffin, May 11, 2010), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry.

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Danzy Senna explores the unconventional marriage and bitter divorce of her parents within the context of their wildly divergent backgrounds: her white mothers blue-blooded lineage and her black fathers family history of struggle.

Hardcover:

9780374289157 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 12, 2009, cover price $23.00

Paperback:

9780312429393 | Picador USA, March 30, 2010, cover price $19.00

CD/Spoken Word:

9781433271458 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 12, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Danzy Senna explores the unconventional marriage and bitter divorce of her parents within the context of their wildly divergent backgrounds: her white mothers blue-blooded lineage and her black fathers family history of struggle.
9781433271465 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 12, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Danzy Senna explores the unconventional marriage and bitter divorce of her parents within the context of their wildly divergent backgrounds: her white mothers blue-blooded lineage and her black fathers family history of struggle.
9781433271434 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2009), cover price $60.00

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Product Description: In the incredibly giftable little book Barack Obama, readers get an inside look at the remarkable 44th president of the United States. Barack Obama is the first African American U.S. president and the first politician to bring 21st-century technology to an election and the presidency...read more

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9780740785573 | Min edition (Andrews McMeel Pub, October 20, 2009), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In the incredibly giftable little book Barack Obama, readers get an inside look at the remarkable 44th president of the United States.

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Written at the age of 33, this memoir is about Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother who describes the search for meaning in his life as a black American. It begins in New York where Barack learns that his father is killed in a car accident and this incident inspires him to travel in search of his family's roots.

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9781847670915 | Canongate Books Ltd, September 6, 2007, cover price $22.90 | also contains Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | About this edition: Written at the age of 33, this memoir is about Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother who describes the search for meaning in his life as a black American.

CD/Spoken Word:

9780739321003 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 10, 2005), cover price $25.95

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A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how her parents were both saved and compromised by their relocation to California and how the author herself struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life. Reprint.

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9781594201097 | Penguin Pr, February 15, 2007, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how she struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life.

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9780143112976 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 29, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A coming-of-age memoir of an African-American woman's quest for home and identity in a series of communities describes how her parents were both saved and compromised by their relocation to California and how the author herself struggled with the promises and realities of white suburbs and college life.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a memoir about the power of race to shape one's personal identity, the daughter of a Jewish father and African American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding life lived between two conflicting ethnic identities.

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9781573221696 | Riverhead Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Describes the personal journey of a woman born to a black mother and Jewish father, including her struggle with drugs and complicated friendships, and culminating in her endeavor to find her own identity.

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9781573229074, titled "Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self" | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, January 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes the personal journey of a woman born to a black mother and Jewish father, including her struggle with drugs and complicated friendships, and culminating in her endeavor to find her own identity.
9780070329317, titled "U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook ''98" | McGraw-Hill, November 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | also contains U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook ''98

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9780606240215, titled "Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self" | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.57 | About this edition: Describes the personal journey of a woman born to a black mother and Jewish father, including her struggle with drugs and complicated friendships, and culminating in her endeavor to find her own identity.

Prebinding:

9781442001961, titled "Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.
9780613494052 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Describes the personal journey of a woman born to a black mother and Jewish father, including her struggle with drugs and complicated friendships, and culminating in her endeavor to find her own identity.

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