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"From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe comes a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play."--

"Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the 20th century the sisters' parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage...

After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverant eighteen-year-old from northern California.

Although his brother's friends make fun of it, Little Bill is very proud of the toy boat he has built and becomes very upset when it is wrecked the first time he puts it in the water.

Little Bill gets in big trouble when he tells a fib to explain why he has come home late for dinner.

One night, little Bill is positive there are mean things in his dark closet and that they are just dying to get him. Only when Alice the great performs a magical tucking-in trick do the mean things go away for good.

While trying to raise enough money for a telescope, Little Bill makes a discovery about generosity and the needs of others.

An illuminating and thought-provoking history of the growth of Hispanic American Republican voters in the past half century and their surprising impact on US politics In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it&'s true&'Latino voters&do&tilt Democratic. Hillary Clinton won the Latino vote in a &'landslide, Barack Obama &'crushed-- Mitt Romney...

The senator from Florida recounts his heritage as the son of Cuban immigrants, his career in Florida politics, and his run for the Senate, and outlines his conservative political views.