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The Cuban Revolution

1995
Provides an historical overview of the history of Cuba from 1959 and the Cuban Revolution.

Cesar Chavez

farm worker activist
1994
Text and accompanying photographs present a biography of the Mexican American labor activist who helped organize the migrant farm workers and establish a union to fight for their rights.

Till the break of day

1972
Memoirs of the author's adolescence during World War II, when her family escaped from Poland to temporary haven in France, Portugal, England, and finally, the United States.

Cesar Chavez

a photo-illustrated biography
1998
Presents the life story of the Mexican American labor leader who achieved justice for migrant farm workers by creating a union to protect their rights.

Clara's war

one girl's story of survival
2009
An account based on the author's personal record of the months during which she hid from Nazis in an underground bunker with seventeen others discusses the characteristics of their unlikely protector and the house fire that threatened everyone's survival.

Castro's daughter

an exile's memoir of Cuba
1998
A memoir in which Alina Fern?ndez, illegitimate daughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, discusses her early relationship with her father, her disillusionment with his regime, and her decision to seek refuge in the United States.

The chip

how two Americans invented the microchip and launched a revolution
2001
Tells the story of how Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce hit upon the discovery that led to the development of the silicon microchip which revolutionized the global information industry.

Fidel's Cuba

a revolution in pictures
1998
History of the Cuban Revolution in pictures from Castro's fund-raising trip to New York in 1955 to the 1990s.

The fight in the fields

Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers movement
1997
Tells the story of Cesar Chavez and his fight to win dignity and justice for migrant farmworkers through the United Farm Workers union, and includes essays, letters, and poems contributed by men and women who participated on both sides of the struggle.

Cesar Chavez

a hero for everyone
2003
A brief biography of Cesar Chavez, the Mexican American union leader who fought to get migrant farm workers better wages.

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