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Multicultural Literature Book Club
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
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Tuesday, Sept. 7th – Intercultural Center: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Power of Half
by Kevin & Hannah
Authors in KCK, Sept. 2
A true story, the Salwenfamily sell their house and use half of the proceeds for charitable giving and work.
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Tuesday, Oct. 5th – Library: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Flowers
by Dagoberto Gilb
Racially charged but humorous, Gilb’snovel accounts the bigotry and alienation of a diverse group of characters, living in and around the Los Flores apartments.
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Tuesday, Nov. 7th – Intercultural Center: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
I am Nujood
by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui
This is the true and courageous story of Nujoodof Yemen who was sold into a marriage at 10 and is beaten and raped by her husband before reaching puberty. Against tremendous odds, she procures a divorce.
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Tuesday, Dec. 7th – Library: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie
2010 United We Read Selection
A Chinese-American boy falls in love with a Japanese-American girl during WWII, in time defined by anti-Japanese hysteria and internment.
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Tuesday, Jan.. 25th – Intercultural Center: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle
Boyles novel contrasts the lives of two Southern California couples, one wealthy, the other undocumented Mexicans.
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Tuesday, Feb. 15th – Library: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Butterfly is Buring
by Yvonne Vera
Set in a British-ruled township in Rhodesia, this books is about Phephelaphia, a women who searches for freedom and fulfillment.
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Tuesday, Mar. 15th – Intercultural Center: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Appointment
by Herta Mueller
A young Romanian factory worker is caught sewing notes into men’s suits. Her life becomes subject to random summons for interrogation.
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Tuesday, April. 12th – Library: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
No Impact Man
by Colin Beaven
Beavenchronicles his year-long endeavor to leave as little an environmental foot print as possible.
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Tuesday, May 10th – Intercultural Center: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Envy
by Yuri Olesha
Nikolai Kavalerovrefuses to accept communist values and is envious of his benefactor, Andrei Babachev, a mordlecitizen who runs a sausage factory.
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CONTACT
Barbara Clark Evans, 913-288-7504, or Barbara Stransky, 913-288-7279.
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