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The Immigrants
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Howard Fast |
In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century.
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Pigeon English
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Stephen Kelman |
Lying in front of Harrison Opuku is a body, the body of one of his classmates, a boy known for his crazy basketball skills, who seems to have been murdered for his dinner. Armed with a pair of camouf… |
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A good American
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Alex George |
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more … |
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Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
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Imbolo Mbue,Sarah Tardy |
When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring ov… |
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Marriage of a thousand lies
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SJ Sindu |
Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it … |
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Front Desk
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Kelly Yang |
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. It will take all of Mia's courage, kindnes… |
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Exiled
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Katya Cengel |
"The story of four families confronting deportation forty years after the beginning of large-scale resettlement of Southeast Asian refugees in America"-- |
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Panic in a suitcase
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Yelena Akhtiorskaya |
"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant… |
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Detained and deported
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Margaret Regan |
"The United States is detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants at a rate never before seen in American history. Hundreds of thousands languish in immigration detention centers, separated from … |
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Gender, Generations and the Family in International Migration
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Albert Kraler |
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the fam… |
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Stein house
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Myra Hargrave McIlvain |
After three long months at sea, Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the thriving Indianola seaport on the Texas coast in 1853 to begin their new life. They are determined to overcome the m… |
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Across generations
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Nancy Foner |
Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Genera… |
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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Mordecai Richler |
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his chan… |
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Esperanza Rising
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Pam Muñoz Ryan |
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing… |
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