The Tejano Diaspora


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Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos establish




Wake Up America (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Wake Up America F the way that war came to Belgium and to France there are two pictures which, among Ameri can witnesses, surpass all others and are unforgetahle. One is in the letters home of an American woman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Education for Victory


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Education for Victory


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Cry of the Tinamou


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Acclaimed writer Sonora Babb was born in Oklahoma in 1907 and grew up in eastern Colorado, where her parents struggled to homestead. As an adult, she worked as a journalist, country schoolteacher and college writing teacher. Her marriage to a cinematographer took her around the world. Babb mined and transformed her experiences into the novels and stories collected in this volume.




Dairy Queen


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Murdock's stunning debut novel, narrated by 15-year-old D.J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, is now available in paperback.




School & Society


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School and Society


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