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A baseball game between Jewish schools is the catalyst that starts a bitter rivalry between two boys and their fathers.
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Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family--father, mother, grandmother, foster brother, and an odd assortment of other relatives--who usher Jess into the adult world, with all its attendant joys and sorrows, knowledge and mystery. Jess's father is...
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef.