Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 18 results for “ruth behar”
Skip side bar filters

  • Lucky Broken Girl

    by Ruth Behar ...
    **An unforgettable coming-of-age novel following a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl in 1960s New York City who must overcome the sudden derailment of her American Dream.WINNER OF THE PURA BELPRE AWARD • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST MIDDLE GRADE BOOK OF THE CENTURY“A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street**Based on acclaimed author Ruth Behar ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Across So Many Seas

    by Ruth Behar ...
    **NEWBERY HONOR WINNERSYDNEY TAYLOR BOOK AWARD HONOR WINNER"As lyrical as it is epic, Across So Many Seas reminds us that while the past may be another country, it's also a living, breathing song of sadness and joy that helps define who we are." --Alan Gratz, New York Times bestselling author of RefugeeSpanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Letters from Cuba

    by Ruth Behar ...
    Pura Belpré Award Winner Ruth Behar's inspiring story of a young Jewish girl who escapes Poland to make a new life in Cuba, while she works to rescue the rest of her familyThe situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther's father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. It's heartbreaking to be separated from her beloved sister, so Esther promises ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Picadillo for Paulina

    by Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar ...
    Illustrated by Erika Rodriguez Medina ...
    A young girl must navigate her promise to be a vegetarian without sacrificing her family’s delicious, traditional Cuban food.Paulina has had the birthday of her dreams with the gift of a visit to an animal sanctuary, and to make it even better, her whole family gathers for a celebratory dinner at Cocina de Nana. But when Nana starts passing around her famed Cuban picadillo, Paulina turns it down. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • Traveling Heavy

    A Memoir in between Journeys

    by Ruth Behar ...
    Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Vulnerable Observer

    Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart

    by Ruth Behar ...
    The 25th-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking book that changed anthropology, asserting that ethnographers needn’t exclude themselves or their vulnerabilities from their workIn a new epilogue to this classic work, renowned ethnographer and storyteller Ruth Behar reflects on the groundbreaking impact The Vulnerable Observer has had on anthropology, sociology, and psychology and on scholarly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Tía Fortuna's New Home

    A Jewish Cuban Journey

    by Ruth Behar ...
    Illustrated by Devon Holzwarth ...
    A poignant multicultural ode to family and what it means to create a home as one girl helps her Tía move away from her beloved Miami apartment.When Estrella's Tía Fortuna has to say goodbye to her longtime Miami apartment building, The Seaway, to move to an assisted living community, Estrella spends the day with her. Tía explains the significance of her most important possessions from both her ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pepita Meets Bebita

    by Ruth Behar, Gabriel Frye-Behar ...
    Illustrated by Maribel Lechuga ...
    When dog meets baby, it will take a little time and a lot of love for Pepita and Bebita to become the best of friends.Welcoming a new baby can be hard, especially when you’re used to being the center of attention! When it’s time for Pepita, the puppy of the family, to meet the brand new bebita, she’s in for a few surprises. What do you mean that Mami is too busy to bounce a ball for Pepita? And ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Homecomings

    Unsettling Paths of Return

    by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Ruth Behar, Laura Hammond, Bayo Holsey, Éva V. Huseby-Darvas, André Levy, Susan Pattie, Takeyuki Tsuda ...
    Series series Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
    Despite the mass dislocation and repatriation efforts of the last century, the study of return movements still sits on the periphery of anthropology and migration research. Homecomings explores the forces and motives that drive immigrants, war refugees, political exiles, and their descendants back to places of origin. By including a range of homecoming experiences, Markowitz and Stefansson ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines

    A Reader

    by Ruth Behar, David Bleich ...
    Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Telling to Live

    Latina Feminist Testimonios

    by Latina Feminist Group ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or life stories—whether as poets, oral historians, literary scholars, ethnographers, or ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Handmade in Cuba

    Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía

    Edited by Ruth Behar, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Kristin Schwain ...
    Handmade in Cuba is an in-depth examination of Ediciones Vigía, an artisanal press that published exquisite books crafted from simple supplies during some of Cuba’s most dire economic periods. Vividly illustrated, this volume shows how the publishing collective responded to the nation’s changing historical and political situation from the margins of society, representing Cuban culture across the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD