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Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift. In the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn't and uses his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape. But their pasts travel with them, threatening to capsize even their fragile hope. In this triumphant novel,...
22) Tiger daughter
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English...
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
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The mesmerizing story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans
In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel titled Lost City. It is a strange and beautiful novel, set in a near future where a sixteen-year-old Dominican girl, not all that unlike Adana herself, searches for a golden eternal city believed to exist...
25) An untamed heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Language
English
Description
"After the loss of her first love, is Ingeborg Strand willing to marry a stranger--however kind--for the promise of a new life in America? The prequel to the RED RIVER OF THE NORTH series"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Annaliese Lange and Simone Deveraux cross the Atlantic to join their American husbands after the war, but their troubled pasts lead Annaliese to disappear during the voyage, as seventy years later a friend of Simone's discovers the truth about Annaliese's disappearance.
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
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
While her parents attend a community ESL class, Luli connects with other immigrant children by sharing a love of tea. Includes author's note.
29) The refugees
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
68 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From National Poetry Series winner Su Cho, chosen by Paige Lewis, a debut poetry collection about immigration, memory, and a family's lexicon. Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families-not...
31) Patsy: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ana Falcon, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
94 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the genius, diversity, and grit of immigrants and refugees in this boldly illustrated guide to 36 American trailblazers. The men and women in this book represent nations from Somalia to Germany, from Syria to China, from Mexico to Sweden, and more.
39) My Antonia
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
My Ántonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works. It is the last novel in the Prairie trilogy, preceded by O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Ántonia. The book's narrator,
...Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After burning their Thanksgiving dinner, Ann and Ed head for the local cafe, where they are welcomed by an immigrant family into an unusual celebration that gives everyone cause to be thankful.