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|  | Brown by Richard Rodriguez
America is browning. As politicians, schoolteachers, and grandparents attempt to decipher what that might mean, Richard Rodriguez argues America has been brown from its inception, as he himself is. As a brown man, I think . . . (But do we really think that color colors thought?) In his two previous memoirs, HUNGER OF MEMORY and DAYS OF OBLIGATION, Rodriguez wrote about the intersection of his private life with public issues of class and ethnicity. With BROWN, his consideration of race, Rodriguez completes his trilogy on American public life. For Rodriguez, brown is not a singular color. Brown is evidence of mixture. Brown is a shade created by desire--an emblem of the erotic history of America, which began the moment the African and the European met within the Indian eye. Rodriguez reflects on various cultural associations of the color brown-toil, decay, impurity, time-arranging dazzling juxtapositions for which he is justly famous: Alexis de Tocqueville, Malcolm X, minstrel shows, Broadway musicals, Puritanism, the Sistine Chapel, Cubism, homosexuality, and the influence on his life of two federal figures-Ben Franklin and Richard Nixon ( the dark father of Hispanicity ). At the core of the book is an assessment of the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America. Reflecting upon the new demographic profile of our country, Rodriguez observes that Hispanics are becoming Americanized at the same rate that the United States is becoming Latinized. Hispanics are coloring an American identity that traditionally has chosen to describe itself as black and white. AUTHOR: Richard Rodriguez
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Police Lab by David Owen
Description not available.Offers a look at how this forensic science is used to solve crimes through a review of twenty real-life cases, including the O.J. Simpson trial and the World Trade Center car bombing, complete with photos, glossary, and index. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: David Owen
PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Outwitting Squirrels by Bill Adler
Description not available.Describes how to outsmart the greedy, crafty squirrels who are determined to make all birdseed their own AUTHOR: Bill Adler
PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Haynes Volvo 120 & 130 Series & 1800 Sports Owner's Workshop Manual, No. 203 by B. L Chalmers-Hunt, J. H Haynes
Haynes disassembles every subject vehicle and documents every step with thorough instructions and clear photos. Haynes repair manuals are used by the pros, but written for the do-it-yourselfer. AUTHOR: B. L Chalmers-Hunt, J. H Haynes
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Australia & New Zealand by Elaine Landau
Description not available.Discusses the history, geography, people, government, and economy of Australia and New Zealand AUTHOR: Elaine Landau
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Lie down with Lions by Ken Follett, Peter Marinker
Jane is an Englishwoman torn between two lovers--Ellis, an American and Jean Pierre, a Frenchman. The men are competitors in the cold war as well as in love. Will one man triumph on both scores? AUTHOR: Ken Follett, Peter Marinker
PUBLISHER: N A L
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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