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New life--new land
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Ann Fears Crawford |
Presents the experiences of a variety of early women settlers on the Texas frontier. |
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The Thanksgiving Door
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Debby Atwell |
When Ed and Ann’s turkey dinner burns, they think their Thanksgiving is ruined. But what appears to be a disaster becomes a blessing in disguise when Ed and Ann unknowingly intrude on an immigrant fa… |
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Locke 1928
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Shawna Yang Ryan |
A mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928, weaving history and mythology around the lives of the townspeople and the ghosts who haunt themLocke, CA, … |
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A city at war
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Richard L. Pifer |
"A City at War focuses on the experiences of working men and women in a community that was not a wartime boomtown. Milwaukee was a community of established factories and neighborhoods. Within this co… |
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Threads and flames
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Esther M. Friesner |
After recovering from typhus, thirteen-year-old Raisa leaves her Polish shtetl for America to join her older sister, and goes to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. |
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Mirette & Bellini cross Niagara Falls
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Emily Arnold McCully |
With the help of a young immigrant boy they meet on their crossing to America, two famous tightrope walkers manage to survive the treachery of a rival showman. |
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Gifts to treasure
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Tehilla Greenberger |
When twelve-year-old Raizel, eleven-year-old Moshele, and nine-year-old Chaya Rabinovich arrive in North Dakota in 1897, each must try to discover how to use the special gifts their grandparents gave… |
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A nation of immigrants
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Susan Forbes Martin |
"Immigration makes America what it is and is formative for what it will become. America was settled by three different models of immigration, all of which persist to the present. The Virginia Colony … |
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The rooftop adventure of Minnie and Tessa, factory fire survivors
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Holly Littlefield,Amanda Doering Tourville |
Two immigrant friends, Jewish Minnie and Catholic Tessa, work long hours at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, and when a fire breaks out on March 25, 1911, trapping dozens of workers insid… |
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The new face of small-town America
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Edgar Sandoval |
"A collection of essays on the experiences of Latino immigrants in Allentown, Pennsylvania"--Provided by publisher. |
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Fields of grace
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Kim Vogel Sawyer |
With their eldest son nearly to the age when he will be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to emigrate to America with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother, … |
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We came from Vietnam
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Muriel Stanek |
Text and black-and-white photographs describe the efforts of a Vietnamese refugee family to adjust to life in Chicago. |
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Shanghai girls
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Lisa See |
Two sisters leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles in this fresh, fascinating adventure. |
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Waxwings
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Jonathan Raban |
A novel set in Seattle at the turn of the millennium follows two immigrants as they struggle to achieve the American dream in the midst of terrorism, economic fireworks, and unrest in the streets. |
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Them
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Francine du Plessix Gray |
At the height of their fame, Alexander Liberman and Tatiana du Plessix Gray were the grandest power couple in the New York City fashion world, gifted Russian emigres who consorted with Dali and Dietr… |
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American immigration after 1996
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Kathleen R. Arnold |
"Examines the underlying complexities of immigration in the United States and the relationship between globalization of the economy and issues of political sovereignty"--Provided by publisher. |
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Across many mountains
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Yangzom Brauen |
Kusang never thought she would leave Tibet. Growing up in a remote mountain village, she married a monk and gave birth to two children. But then the Chinese army invaded, and their peaceful lives wer… |
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Patriot acts
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Alia Malek,Karen Korematsu |
In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to … |
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Teenage refugees from Eastern Europe speak out
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Carl E. Rollyson |
Teenage refugees from several Eastern European countries tell their stories of immigration and adjustment to the United States. |
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Mission libertad
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Lizette M. Lantigua |
With his parents, fourteen-year-old Luis escapes from Communist Cuba in 1979 and goes to live in Maryland with relatives who teach him about American life and God, but Luis, eager to fulfill a promis… |
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