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More Multicultural Biographies

April 1, 2017 | SuzyQ
Angela's ashes : a memoir by Frank McCourt
When heaven and earth changed places : a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace by Le Ly Hayslip
Colors of the mountain by Da Chen
Waiting for snow in Havana : confessions of a Cuban boy by Carlos M. N Eire

Carlos Eire's National Book Award-winning memoir of his childhood in 1950s Havana and the overnight upheaval of his world in January 1959, when the Batista government was toppled.

My invented country : a nostalgic journey through Chile by Isabel Allende
Half-Jew : a daughter's search for her family's buried past by Susan Jacoby
The faithful scribe : a story of Islam, Pakistan, family, and war by Shahan Mufti
Mankiller : a chief and her people by Wilma Pearl Mankiller
The unwanted : a memoir by Kien Nguyen
Molina : the story of the father who raised an unlikely baseball dynasty by Bengie Molina

The inspiring true story of the poor Puerto Rican factory worker, Benjamin Molina Santana, who against all odds raised the greatest baseball dynasty of all time : Molina's three sons-- Bengie, Jose, and Yadier-- have each earned two World Series rings, which is unprecedented in the sport,

Ten thousand sorrows : the extraordinary journey of a Korean War orphan by Elizabeth Kim
Kaffir boy in America : an encounter with apartheid by Mark Mathabane