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When a high school English teacher introduced Tiffany to The House on Mango Street her life changed dramatically. She developed a deep love and need in her life to hear tragic stories beautifully told. Tiffany loves resilient mischievous outsider characters like Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, and Harriet the Spy. She gravitates toward post-colonial and American ethnic literature, reads nature essays as if they were a form of spiritual worship, and also has read nearly every book by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tiffany is often found obsessing with her co-worker, Laurie, about color and harmony between adjacent book covers on display. Her dream is to be an artist in addition to all other things, and also to learn Spanish. She cares for the store's Art, Health and Psychology sections.

Tiffany's Recommends

Style, Naturally: The Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty (Paperback)

By Summer Rayne Oakes
$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780811865241
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Published: Chronicle Books, 2/2009
This colorful book has many appealing aspects:
1.) If you love fashion, this is a fun book that is sure to inspire.
2.) Perhaps more importantly, this book will show you great places to buy organic, recycled, and fair trade clothes, accessories and beauty products.
3.) This is a friendly education in eco-design and the many ways to get involved in this community.
I LOVE this book.

Postcards (Paperback)

By Annie Proulx
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780684800875
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Published: Scribner, 8/1994
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Proulx's first book is a brutal reflection of America, 1930s - 1980s, and brilliantly written. The book should be read for its prose style alone. I've never read such a relentlessly dark portrait of America—the story of the Blood family is so void of any light it at times feels unbearable. But that is the point. A truly painful book that feels utterly real—and for that it left me feeling satisfied.

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (Paperback)

By Xiaolu Guo
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780307389381
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Published: Anchor, 8/2009
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I adored this book by a young, fresh, highly-regarded voice out of China. It gives and intimate view of the rapidly changing landscape/culture of China today.
It is HILARIOUS and truly BIZARRE.
Most of all, anyone who doesn't fall in love with Fenfang Wang and her quest to discover her desires and follow her own brilliance is heartless. I heart this book!

Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Paperback)

By John Berger
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9780307386731
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Published: Vintage, 11/2008
Berger's life in the arts informs this profound political analysis on despair.
This book teaches us how to hope.
Simply reading is an invigorating step to begin a living response to the current world order.

In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)

By Julia Alvarez

ISBN-13: 9780452274426
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Plume, 8/1995
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This Latin American classic is based on the true story of the Mirabal Sisters and set in the Dominican Republic during Trujillo's dictatorship.
It tells the story of four sisters from birth and how they became key figures in the revolution.
Three of the sisters are martyred and one sister, Dede, remains to see the results of their revolution and to tell the story.
A beautifully written novel filled with sadness and fire.

The House of the Spirits (Mass Market Paperback)

By Isabel Allende
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780553273915
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Published: Bantam, 7/1986
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This is my favorite book ever and it's here in mass-market paperback so you have no excuse not to buy it.
This book has everything you could ever want: Epic history, magic, playfulness, raunchy gore, family saga, powerful generations of women, genetic green hair, Chile, passion, characters who do deplorable things but who you still have to love, torture, revolution and triumph!
Allende is relentless in her drama. The ultimate storyteller!

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape (Hardcover)

By Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney

ISBN-13: 9781595340245
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Trinity University Press, 10/2006
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by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney
Home Ground is an anatomy of the United States written by forty-five authors of various American backgrounds. Each author defines twenty cultural phrases we use to describe the particularities of our geographic landscapes. As you flip through the pages, you will not find a dictionary definition. You will find histories, references to literature, pen sketches, and a symphony of voices that awaken states of amnesia, dispel cynicism, and restore a sense of mature identity to the United States as a place and a people.

The Smell of Apples (Paperback)

By Mark Behr
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780312152093
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Published: Picador, 3/1997
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Behr writes a novel that moves back and forth in time between Marnus's narration as a small boy, growing up as the son of an Afrikaner general in Apartheid South Africa, and letters he writes as a young adult soldier. It is about the silencing of the feminine voice, and the connection between war and the sexual assault of boys. How does a young boy get broken into racism, cruelty and militarism? It is brilliantly crafted with images that will continue to inform the reader for years.

Boundaries (Paperback)

By Maya Lin
$25.00
ISBN-13: 9780743299596
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 9/2006
I was first awakened to the mystery of art when I saw a documentary of Maya Lin and her initial sketch of the Vietnam War Memorial. It was a simple elongated black "v" shape sketched in a green landscape. The panel stared at it in awe. And I am embarrassed to say I laughed at the spectacle. Every part of this book is specially designed and written by Ms. Lin and is intended as an intimate artwork in itself where the reader experiences the slow process of her creative fruitions.

The Monster at the End of this Book (Sesame Street) (Hardcover)

By Jon Stone, Michael Smollin
$8.99
ISBN-13: 9780375829130
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Published: Golden Books, 5/2004
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This was probably my favorite book as a child. Only later did I understand the brilliant psychological significance in this story about "lovable, furry old Grover." As a child I was always laughing and rejoicing and somehow comforted by Grover's discovery. But you'll have to read the book to find out.

Emma's Rug (Paperback)

By Allen Say
$7.99
ISBN-13: 9780618335237
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Published: Sandpiper, 5/2003
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Emma's Rug is one of the most profound statements about the artistic process available. This is a beautiful book to add to any child's development and consciousness.

The House on Mango Street (Paperback)

By Sandra Cisneros
$11.00
ISBN-13: 9780679734772
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Published: Vintage, 1/1984
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As a fourteen-year-old I learned from this book how to make meaning of my family, my town, and time. As an adult I learn from Cisneros how to make meaning out of where I am and where I come from. Each vignette is at once a child breaking free and a woman coming home again.

Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork (Paperback)

By Etty Hillesum, Eva Hoffman
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9780805050875
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Published: Picador, 11/1996
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A Holocaust book like no other. deeply honest, Hillesum's writings show her often quirky transformation from and inner life in shambles to a giving strength for her people. subtle details of the holocaust filter into her diaries and soon her struggles are no longer about herself but about the spiritual resilience of the human experience. for anyone cultivating consciousness of self and society this is a must read.


 

Beloved (Paperback)

By Toni Morrison
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9781400033416
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Published: Vintage, 6/2004
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There is no other book that has taught me freedom, love, and relationships more than Beloved. This is a book with a voice that I now feel is part of my body, a book that I have read over and over again. It is also a book that has been banned from a number of schools.
Based on a crime article Toni Morrison found in newspaper archives while researching the lives of ex-slaves, the novel asks the question, why would an escaped slave cut the throat of her own infant who has never known slavery? When the chains are gone, broken people still have an ocean to cross. It's a book about slaves continuing to kill their own soul until loss, rage, and eternal scars are given room to live.