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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Tambi�en de este lado hay sue�nos. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin. In a...
4) O pioneers!
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a story which tells of the immigrants who came to build new lives for themselves, who struggled against poverty, drought, and storm, and who came to love and understand the great prairie.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling...
Author
Language
English
Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares the author's journey from Somalia to the United States, including his early love of American music and movies, his survival under a radical Islamist group, and how he made his way to the United States using the annual visa lottery.
11) Wild girl
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
361 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of a daughter inspired her writing career.
14) Hester: a novel
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials. Who is the real Hester Prynne? Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts...
15) Streets of gold
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
39 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on a memoir written in the early twentieth century, tells the story of a young girl and her life in Russia, her travels to America, and her subsequent life in the United States.
16) Where I belong
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Guatemalan-American high school senior Millie Vargas struggles to balance her family's needs with her own ambitions, especially after her mother's employer, a Senate candidate, uses Millie as a poster child for 'deserving' immigrants"--
17) Arctic chill
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murder of a young boy forces Erlendur of the Reykjavik police force to investigate simmering tensions beneath the surface of Icelandic society and confront a tragedy from his own past.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ukrainian immigrant Nadia struggles with the part-time jobs and looks forward to being reunited with her daughter, whose entry into the country has been delayed, but when her daughter's health is endangered, she decides to make a desperate overseas trip to see her.
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A decade of unthinkable hardships in the shadow of the mill has shattered Janos and Karina Kovac's American dream. Pittsburgh's thriving steel industry has not kept its promise of prosperity--and now Karina's unraveling sanity threatens her family's future"--