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Multicultural Biographies

Lakota woman by Mary Brave Bird
My beloved world by Sonia Sotomayor

The first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. 

Being a practising Muslim in a Western society is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never falls on the same date each year; why it is that Halal butchers also sell teapots and alarm clocks. How do you make clear to the plumber that it's essential the toilet is installet within sitting-arm's reach of the tap? Zarqa Nawaz has seen and done it all.

Russian tattoo : a memoir by Elena Gorokhova

An exquisite portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey,