Arnold Genthe and John Tchen - Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown

One hundred thirty rare photos offer fascinating visual record of chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.

Jill Nelson - Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience

When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post's prestigious Sunday magazine in 1986, she thought she had entered journalism heaven. But the magazine proved to be ...

Him Mark Lai, Judy Yung, Genny Lim - Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940

Nash Candelaria - Not by the Sword

Jack Beatty - The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley 1874-1958

Miguel Algarin - Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe

A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.

Jessica Hagedorn - Dogeaters: A Play About the Philippines (Adapted from the Novel)

" As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor " (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In the ...

Lois-Ann Yamanaka - Heads by Harry

Life in a Hawaiian town shimmers around the Yagyuu family taxidermy shop, where a young woman tries to cope with a gifted younger sister, an older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, and the ...

Don Delillo - Underworld

In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history ...

Cheri Register - Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir

< p > A unique blend of memoir and public history, < i > Packinghouse Daughter, < /i > winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, working-class life. The daughter of ...