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"These days, plenty of people can work from anywhere. So, if you can work from anywhere, does it really matter where you work? As Melody Warnick has found from personal experience, in some ways it matters more than ever. If You Could Live Anywhere examines the powerful relationship between how we work and where we live. With a light voice and easy-to-understand tips, Warnick helps the reader develop a location strategy that puts them in the right...
8) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
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The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
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A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War IILess than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military...
12) The counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: slavery, silver and the U.S. war against the Navajo nation
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"Old Pounder," they called him-- the very first Navajo silversmith. Yet Herrero Delgadito's greatest legacy is measured in lives, not ounces: the scores of Navajo women and children he plucked out of slavery in 1864, the hundreds of exiles he risked everything to feed in 1865 and the thousands of people he helped lead back home in 1868. A remarkable portrait of human resilience, Delgadito's story upends conventional narratives of the West, revealing...
13) Move Us 2 Panama
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This book tells the story of a family that makes the commitment to move from Texas, USA to Panama City, Panama. Unlike other books, this is your guide through the relocation process. The author covers important information related to the visa options and how they related to your choice of renting or buying in Panama. How to gather the required documents for your Panamanian attorney and ensure they are correctly apostilled or authenticated. And he...
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"More like a tapestry than a traditional novel, The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi blends magical elements with stories based on the oral narratives of the author's grandparents and their experiences during the 1940s at the Tulare Assembly Center and the Gila River War Relocation Center, two WWII relocation camps in Arizona. The author's technique gives the novel the effect of working through accretion, collecting one-breath fictions...
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Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years. How could this have happened? Uprooted takes a close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led one...
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