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AAUW hopes you enjoy the 2004-2005 ¡Adelante! Book Club selections, and encourages members and nonmembers to open a dialogue of women and diversity in their communities.
September (Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15-Oct. 15)
The Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
by Elva Trevino Hart (1999)
This honest and moving memoir follows a migrant child and her family as they travel to the farm fields of Minnesota and Wisconsin in search of work.
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October (Disability Awareness Month)
Riding the Bus With My Sister: A True Life Journey
by Rachel Simon (2002)
Rachel Simon’s sister, who has mental retardation, spends her days riding local public buses. Then she invites Rachel, who learns a lot about her sister, her sister’s disability, and her own limitations.
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November (Native American Heritage Month)
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn
by Larry Colton (2000)
Working through racism, alcoholism, and domestic violence, the players on Hardin High School’s girls’ basketball team come out winners in life as well as on the court.
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December
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
by Kimberly Willis Holt (1999)
In a small Texas town, 13-year-old Toby and his best friend Cal meet the star of a sideshow act, 600-pound Zachary, billed as the fattest boy in the world.
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January 
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
by Bryan Sykes (2001)
Fascinating mitochondrial DNA evidence supports the idea that Europeans descended from just seven women.
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February (Black History Month)
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
by Nikki Giovanni (2000)
The poet who emerged during the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements of the 60s continues to embrace topics relevant today from her perspective as a black woman in this collection poetry and prose.
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March (Women's History Month)
Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea
by Diane Glancy (2003)
You are there on the epic journey of Lewis and Clark that opened the west to the call of manifest destiny. Contrasts between the explorers’ actual journals of Lewis and Clark and fictional prose of the young Shoshone reveal the inherent clash of cultures in this vast new land.
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April
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
by Andrew Solomon (2002)
This book forges a long, brambly path through the subject of depression--exposing discordant views and looking at answers offered by science, philosophy, law, psychology, literature, art, and history
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May (Asian Pacific American Heritage Month)
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung (2001)
Life under the brutal Pol Pot regime changes a young woman’s life forever, as she and her family find themselves fugitives of war, without even their names.
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June (Gay/Lesbian Pride Month)
Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
by Erica Fischer (1998)
The true story about the wife of a Nazi officer and a Jewish woman as their affair unfolds in wartime Berlin, captured from personal interviews, diaries, letters and poems.
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July
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World
by Kerry Kennedy Cuomo (2000)
This collection offers biographical sketches and haunting photographs of ordinary people from 35 countries who are leading the fight to ensure basic human rights for everyone.
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August
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban — A Young Woman’s Story
by Latifa (pseudonym) (2002)
Sixteen-year-old Latifa dreamt of becoming a journalist until the Taliban’s repression of women changed her life.
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