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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity

A thought-provoking meditation on food, family, identity, immigration, and, most of all, hospitality--at the table and beyond--that's part food memoir, part appeal for more authentic decency in our daily worlds, and in the world at large. Be My Guest is an utterly unique, deeply personal meditation on what it means to tend to others and to ourselves--and how the two things work hand in hand. Priya Basil explores how food--and the act of offering food to others--are used to express love and support. Weaving together stories from her own life with knowledge gleaned from her Sikh heritage; her years spent in Kenya, India, Britain, and Germany; and ideas from Derrida, Plato, Arendt, and Peter Singer, Basil focuses an unexpected and illuminating light on what it means to be both a host and a guest. Lively, wide-ranging, and impassioned, Be My Guest is a singular work, at once a deeply felt plea for a kinder, more welcoming world and a reminder that, fundamentally, we all have more in common than we imagine.

Be My Guest

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

An illustrated text for the adapted spiritual song with pictures of children from different lands.

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Hampshire

A Novel

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and southern Sudan. For five strangers on an NGO compound, the discovery foreshadows trouble to come. South Sudanese translator William connects the corpse to the sudden disappearance of cook Layla, a northern nomad with whom he's fallen in love. Meanwhile, Sudanese American filmmaker Dena struggles to connect to her unfamiliar homeland, and white midwestern aid worker Alex finds his plans thwarted by a changing climate and looming civil war. Dancing between the adults is Mustafa, a clever, endearing twelve-year-old, whose schemes to rise out of poverty set off cataclysmic events on the compound.

Amid the paradoxes of identity, art, humanitarian aid, and a territory riven by conflict, William, Layla, Dena, Alex, and Mustafa must forge bonds stronger than blood or identity. Weaving a sweeping history of the breakup of Sudan into the lives of these captivating characters, Fatin Abbas explores the porous and perilous nature of borders--whether they be national, ethnic, or religious--and the profound consequences for those who cross them. Ghost Season is a gripping, vivid debut that announces Abbas as a powerful new voice in fiction.

(Arc) Ghost Season

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#paperback #fiction #romance #contemporaryromance #multicultural #womensfiction #arrangedmarriage #cheapandnew 

Minnesota

A delightful romantic comedy featuring a Muslim woman who fakes an engagement to the boy next door in the hopes of winning a couples cooking contest. When it comes to bread, Reena Manji knows exactly what she's doing. She treats her sourdough starters like (somewhat unruly) children. But when it comes to Reena's actual family -- and their constant meddling in her life-well, that recipe always ends in disaster. Now Reena's parents have found her yet another potential Good Muslim Husband. This one has the body of Captain America, a delicious British accent, and lives right across the hall. He's the perfect, mouthwatering temptation . . . and completely ruined by the unwelcome side dish of parental interference. Reena refuses to marry anyone who works for her father. She won't be attracted to Nadim's sweet charm or gorgeous lopsided smile. That is, until the baking opportunity of a lifetime presents itself: a couples' cooking competition with the prize of her dreams. Reena will do anything to win -- even asking Nadim to pretend they're engaged. But when it comes to love, baking your bread doesn't always mean you get to eat it too.

Accidentally Engaged

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#paperback  #multi-cultural #middle-grades #japan #japanese #family #relationships 

Virginia

NY Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
 
A young American girl grapples with her Japanese heritage in this "quiet, beautifully moving portrayal of a multicultural family" for middle grade readers (School Library Journal)
 
American-born Skye is a good student and a star soccer player who never really gives any thought to the fact that her father is Japanese. Her cousin, Hiroshi, lives in Japan, and never really gives a thought to his uncle's family living in the United States.
 
Skye and Hiroshi's lives are thrown together when Hiroshi's family, with his grandfather (who is also his best friend), suddenly moves to the U.S. Now Skye doesn't know who she is anymore: at school she's suddenly too Japanese, but at home she's not Japanese enough. Hiroshi has a hard time adjusting to life in a new culture, and resents Skye's intrusions on his time with Grandfather. Through all of this is woven Hiroshi's expertise, and Skye's growing interest in, kite making and competitive rokkaku kite flying.

Flying the Dragon

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Jennifer J. Chow

Mimi Lee hoped to give Los Angeles animal lovers something to talk about with her pet grooming shop, Hollywoof. She never imagined that the first cat she said hello to would talk back. Or be quite so, well, catty. When Marshmallow exposes local breeder Russ Nolan for mistreating Chihuahuas, Mimi steals some of her cat's attitude to tell Russ off. The next day Russ has been found dead, and Mimi's shouting match with him has secured her top billing as the main suspect. It'll take her a lot of sleuthing and sass to get back to the pet-grooming life - and off the murder scene.

Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

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#paperback #love #egypt #lovestory #multicultural #historical #epic #england 

Oregon

At the end of the twentieth century, Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, journeys to Egypt to unravel the truth behind her ancestor Anna Winterbourne, an English widow who, in 1901, falls in love with an Egyptian, Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, a love affair that is echoed in her own turbulent relationship with a gifted Egyptian-American conductor. A Booker Prize finalist. Original. 50,000 first printing.

The Map of Love

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#paperback #women #perspectives #multicultural

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Social Studies

Multicultural Perspectives

This interdisciplinary, multicultural text-reader provides an introduction to women's studies within a global context by examining the diversity of women's lives across categories of race-ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, and age. Substantial chapter introductions provide statistical information and explanations of key concepts and ideas as a context for the reading selections. Each chapter includes reading questions and suggestions for taking action, to help students link what they learn to their own lives and to the world around them.

Women's Lives

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Farah Heron

New and never read. Minimal shelf wear and small ding on the spine. Please see photos.

California

Rani Manicka


Set in 1920s South Asia, Malaysian author Rani Manicka’s novel The Rice Mother (2002) follows Lakshmi, a Malaysian woman, who is forced into an arranged marriage at the age of fourteen. Despite her motivation to live a good life, Lakshmi’s limited agency, her frustrated will to improve her situation, and the failures of her husband, ironically result in her life playing out the tragedies and dysfunctions of the generations before her. The novel presents an ambivalent view of fate, showing that no individual is ultimately in control of her defining conditions and experiences, complicating her desire to cultivate a family and legacy.

The novel begins in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, telling the story of Lakshmi’s difficult childhood. When she is only fourteen, her mother marries her to a wealthy, thirty-seven-year-old Malaysian man, Ayah, whose first wife has recently died. She is forced to move to Malaysia. Once there, she learns that Ayah fabricated his identity: he is not a rich bachelor at all, but a low-income clerk, saddled in debt. Ayah borrowed a gold watch and paid off a man to act as his servant while meeting Lakshmi’s mother. Despite this original deception, Ayah proves to be a good man and a faithful husband. Lakshmi bears six children, and the family survives with its meager means and relative happiness in the years before World War II. They exist peacefully in a multicultural community of Tamil Hindus, Chinese Taoists, and Malay Muslims.

When the war starts, Japan occupies Malaysia. The family’s first major tragedy strikes when Mohini, Lakshmi’s oldest daughter, is kidnapped, raped, and ultimately killed by Japanese soldiers while languishing in prison after Japan’s defeat. Traumatized and without an adequate support system, Ayah retreats from the world. Lakshmi, meanwhile, grows bitter, seeing her ambitions and hopes thwarted. Lakshmnan, Mohini’s twin brother, develops a gambling addiction. The addiction worsens until he loses all of his family’s money, throwing his wife and three children into poverty. Mohini’s death haunts the entire extended family. Lakshmnan’s daughter, Dimple, noted as strikingly similar in appearance to Mohini, grapples with the death of this important figure in her life. She decides to collect a “dream trail” of records of her family’s past to make this suffering intelligible.


Maryland

Beguiled by promises of wealth, fourteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaysia and marriage to a man many years her senior. But Ayah has lied to her and her family about his circumstances and in fact lives in poverty. A woman of formidable energy and intelligence, Lakshmi provides security, if not luxury, for her family, though at a considerable emotional cost. Then the Japanese army invades during WWII. On the eve of peace, her beloved eldest daughter is raped and killed by the occupying army. The family bears deep scars and inflicts those wounds on the next generation. But in Nisha, Lakshmi's great-granddaughter, it is as if Fate has come full circle and the novel ends on a note of reconciliation and hope.

The Rice Mother

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#hardcover #fiction #contemporary #multicultural #romance put the book as good condition due to name on inside cover and some yellowing 

Pennsylvania

Former neighbors Aaron and Lydia, best friends since childhood in spite of their feuding families, share a history of broken hearts and fear that they will risk their friendship if they become lovers.

A Love Story

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#hardcover #childrens #illustrated #multicultural

New York

A heartwarming story about the joys of multicultural families and being mixed race. One Hundred Percent Me takes readers (ages 4 to 8) along as a young girl explores and accepts her unique identity.

It can be confusing to be a child of mixed race. As the little girl moves through daily life in the big city, she hears some people say she looks more like her Puerto Rican dad, while others claim she takes after her Filipina mom. Should she favor one identity over the other? No! In fact, honoring every facet of her identity equally becomes the main character's favorite affirmation. This beautifully illustrated book about celebrating differences, claiming our belonging, and acknowledging our heritage encourages all readers to embrace the fact that we are all 100% ourselves.

One Hundred Percent Me

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David W. Swanson

Brenda Salter McNeil

#paperback #racialreconciliation #church #davidwswanson #multicultural #culturalstudies #ivp #praxis #ivpress

North Carolina

From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity

Before white churches can pursue diversity, we must first address the faulty discipleship that has led to our segregation in the first place. Pastor David Swanson proposes that we rethink our churches' habits, or liturgies, and imagine together holistic, communal discipleship practices that can reform us as members of Christ's diverse body.

Rediscipling the White Church

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Wisconsin

Multiethnic Short Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults

Seventeen stories concerning the problems teenagers of other ethnic backgrounds have living in the United States.

Join In

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#fiction #romance #contemporaryromance #multicultural 

#paperback #race #shellytochluk #educational #multicultural

The Need to Talk about Race and How to Do It

Witnessing Whiteness invites readers to consider what it means to be white, describes and critiques strategies used to avoid race issues, and identifies the detrimental effect of avoiding race on cross-race collaborations. The author illustrates how racial discomfort leads white people toward poor relationships with people of color. Questioning the implications our history has for personal lives and social institutions, the book considers political, economic, socio-cultural, and legal histories that shaped the meanings associated with whiteness. Drawing on dialogue with well-known figures within education, race, and multicultural work, the book offers intimate, personal stories of cross-race friendships that address both how a deep understanding of whiteness supports cross-race collaboration and the long-term nature of the work of excising racism from the deep psyche. Concluding chapters offer practical information on building knowledge, skills, capacities, and communities that support anti-racism practices, a hopeful look at our collective future, and a discussion of how to create a culture of witnesses who support allies for social and racial justice. For book discussion groups and workshop plans, please visit www.witnessingwhiteness.com [http://www.witnessingwhiteness.com.].

Witnessing Whiteness

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Maine

Bought from Book Outlet. Has overstock mark.

Washington

Last Tang Standing

This book is a compilation of stories, poems, essays and speeches from a wide range of writers. The diverse voices discuss borders, love, family and generations, society, conflict and struggle, personal identity, and celebrations. Characters of diverse age, gender, race and heritage lead the reader through these themes as they explore issues, make decisions, and struggle with complex emotions. ￼

A Multicultural Anthology of Literature from the United States

Hear My Voice

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#healthcare #nursing #multicultural ex libris - book has library markings

Oklahoma

Case Studies from American Hospitals

"An excellent book for those interested in providing culturally responsive and effective care to our nation's increasingly diverse population"--Dr. Robert Like, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

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Priya Basil

Be My Guest

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We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands

Fatin Abbas

(Arc) Ghost Season

Farah Heron

Accidentally Engaged

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Flying the Dragon

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Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

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The Map of Love

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Women's Lives

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Accidentally Engaged

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The Rice Mother

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A Love Story

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One Hundred Percent Me

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Rediscipling the White Church

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Join In

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Accidentally Engaged

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Witnessing Whiteness

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Last Tang Standing

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Hear My Voice

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Accidentally Engaged

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