Beautiful Country: A Memoir Homeschool Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May

Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 13

Val Kilmer has played many iconic roles over his nearly four-decade film career

but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing"-filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables

and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden

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Beautiful Country: A Memoir Homeschool Publisher: Simon & Schuster (MayAn incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to beautiful country. Yet when seven year old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qians parents were professors; in America, her