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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"We Were Dreamers is the superhero origin story of Simu Liu, Marvel Cinematic Universe's first leading Asian superhero, who grew up torn between China and Canada, until he found the courage to dream like his parents before him. Witty, honest, inspiring and relatable, We Were Dreamers weaves together the narratives of two generations in a Chinese immigrant family who are inextricably tied to one another even as they are torn apart by deep cultural...
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.
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.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha's Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth's mother stayed-or was left-behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
viii, 305 pages ; color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A man who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea tells the story of his survival inside the oppressive country, his escape and subsequent rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and his success in the United States.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of Prof. Shaul Harel, formerly Charlie Hilsberg, who lost his shadow in 1942 at only five years old, when he was separated from his family and surroundings and saved from the furnaces of Auschwitz by the Belgian resistance. This book reveals his story, from his time as a "hidden child" in France and Belgium during the Holocaust, through his experiences in orphanages, his immigration to Israel, the serious injury he sustained in...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xv, 382 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Mott Street follows Chinese American writer Ava Chin, who grew up estranged from her father, as she seeks the truth about her family history-and uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience past and present. Chin's ancestors became lovers, classmates, sworn enemies, and, eventually, through her birth, kin-all while converging at a single Chinatown address.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.