The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border

The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border

By
Francisco Cantú
Francisco Cantú
2018 • 250 pages

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Poverty

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Poor People
Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg & Three Cups of Tea
A Fine Balance
The Good Earth
The Last Shot
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope

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194 books

Problems Ideas

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
Stupid White Men : And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Heaven on Earth
Little Bee
Disrupting Class

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Around The World

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Zen
The Arabian Nights
At the back of the North Wind
The Age of Innocence
The Quiet American
Hildegard of Bingen: Scientist, Composer, Healer, and Saint
La Bohème

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Memoir

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
The Egg and I
Squatters in Paradise: A Yellowstone Memoir
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

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Challenge

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Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads
The Shift
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
I Dare Me
Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone
Yes Man
Julie & Julia

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Moving And Starting Over

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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Honeymoon in Purdah
Between Panic and Desire
Await Your Reply
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan

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Nf Biog Memoirs

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All Who Go Do Not Return
Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life
Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome One Woman's Desperate, Funny, and Healing Journey to Explore 30 Religions by Her 30th Birthday
Anger
The Rules Do Not Apply
When We Rise
Happiness: A Memoir

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Social Justice

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Notes from no man's land : American essays
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Brown
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Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler
Acts of Faith
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir

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For Cpl

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Susie's Senior Dogs
I Am the Brother of XX
Where's Mom's Hair?: A Family's Journey Through Cancer
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Nowhere Hair: Explains cancer and chemo to your kids
Butterfly Kisses and Wishes on Wings: When someone you love has cancer...a hopeful, helpful book for kids

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Large Print

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The Children's Blizzard
Piranesi
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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Nonfiction

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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Race

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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
A convenient hatred
Shortcomings
Notes of a Native Son
Beloved
The Other Side of the River

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Latin America

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
Make Your Home Among Strangers
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Immigration

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The Accidental American
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
Harvest of Empire

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North America

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This Vast Southern Empire
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
North Woods
Harvest of Empire
Ain't No Makin' It : Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Second Edition with a New Foreword by Joe Feagin
The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut

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Nonfiction

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Educated: A Memoir
Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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Audiobook

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Black Crow, White Snow
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Diversiverse

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A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal
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Human Acts
Home Fire
Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

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Memoir

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Educated: A Memoir
Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index
The book of separation

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2019

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Girls & Boys
Fables: The Deluxe Edition, Book Thirteen
Gideon the Ninth
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Lit Prize

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Next Year, for Sure
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The Rules Do Not Apply
Other Russias
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The Satanic Verses
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