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1) Broken Irish
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Language
English
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In Boston, six very different people deal with corruption and redemption while watching their neighborhood go through the changes that are needed in order to make it grow.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Roy's impressive American debut covers multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition. Three distinct sections revolve around Amulya, who runs an herbal medicine and fragrance business; his mentally ill wife, Kananbala, who spies on the goings-on of her English neighbors from the room Amulya keeps her locked in; their sons, Kamal and Nirmal; their wives; Nirmal's daughter Bakul, whose mother died in...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press (Ignition)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France. On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone -- the worst catastrophe in French military history. Refugees streamed into France as the German army...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification. When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following...
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