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  Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

  by Eva Hoffman

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  Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

  by Ru?ya?. H?akka?kiya?n

  From the Hardcover “We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had tainted our days. Too many afternoons had passed in silence, listening to a fanatic’s diatribes. We were rebelling because we were not evil, we had... (more)
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  Dreaming in Cuban

  by Cristina Garcia

  "Remarkable...An intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic...Evocative and lush...A rich and haunting narrative, an excellent new voice in contemporary fiction." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Now available in a Spanish language edition from Ballantine Books. Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family... (more)