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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Naufragio	Juan Carlos Calderón Vivanco	Reportaje escrito con la intensidad de una novela policial y con la minuciosidad de una investigación fiscal. Documenta y denuncia la escandalosa tragedia que protagonizan miles de ecuatorianos que, …	OL11996899W
The Sentinel	Arthur C. Clarke	From the Introduction... Today's readers are indeed fortunate; this really is the Golden Age of science fiction. There are dozens of authors at work today who can match all but the giants of the p…	OL17382W
The Dangerous Divide	Peter Eichstaedt	244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm	OL17564372W
Citizens Abroad	Laurie A. Brand	Despite the fact that the majority of emigration today originates in the global south, most research has focused on the receiving states of Europe and North America, while very little attention has b…	OL1810650W
Migration from the Mexican Mixteca	Wayne A. Cornelius	"This volume provides a vivid portrait of a transnational migrant community anchored in both the remote Mixteca region of Oaxaca and the San Diego metropolitan area. Drawing on surveys and interviews…	OL18613254W
Dreams and Nightmares	Liliana Velasquez	211 pages : 23 cm	OL20203900W
Patsy [large print]	Sharon Gordon,Nicole Dennis-Benn	Heralded for writing “deeply memorable . . . women” (Jennifer Senior, New York Times), Nicole Dennis-Benn introduces readers to an unforgettable heroine for our times: the eponymous Patsy, who leaves…	OL20734565W
Merde, Actually	Clarke, Stephen	1 volume	OL21001730W
Undocumented	Harold Fernandez	Once a safe and humble community, Barrio Antioquia--a town in Medellín, Colombia--was now plagued by unemployment and overrun by gangs, drug mules, and hired assassins. Realizing Medellín held no fut…	OL27280868W
¡Figaro! (90210)	Vid Guerrerio	Musical comedy about citizenship and immigration reform in America, featuring multi-cultural characters and a new English and Spanglish libretto that combines up-to-the-moment punchlines with Mozart'…	OL27719318W
Just when you thought it was safe	Douglas J. Schulz	"Just When You Thought It Was Safe will take you on a thrill ride of emotions and at times, cries for relief as America is invaded by illegal immigrants all wanting to take advantage of the President…	OL28178288W
Home in exile	Felix Kobla	Mr Almond pays with his life when he refuses to give away his four young daughters in forced marriage to a tribal rebel leader. His young daughters, Alima, fifteen; Benatu, twelve; Tabata, thirteen a…	OL29229103W
STEER TOWARD ROCK	Fae Myenne Ng	The woman I loved wasn't in love with me; the woman I married wasn't a wife to me. Ilin Cheung was my wife on paper. In deed, she belonged to Yi-Tung Szeto. In debt, I also belonged to him. He was my…	OL3947860W
Crossing over	Rubén Martínez	"The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world. Even as the United States deploys billions of dollars and a vast arsenal to "hold the line," the border is breached dail…	OL4281660W
The Cuban prospect	Brian Shawver	"Brian Shawver tells the story of Dennis Birch, a washed-up thirty-four-year-old ballplayer turned minor league scout. At the request of his organization, he embarks on a plan to smuggle the hot left…	OL5847687W
Human rights overboard	Linda Briskman	"In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had…	OL6078976W
Stitch	Mark Morris	Autumn term at Maybury University and, as the nights draw in, so does an atmosphere of menace. Dan Latcher — a previously quiet and withdrawn student — blossoms overnight into the forceful illusion-w…	OL8124581W
L' Affiche rouge	Benoît Rayski	B. Rayski relate l'affaire de l'Affiche rouge qui mena au peloton d'exécution 23 jeunes hommes, juifs pour la plupart, exécutés par les nazis le 21 février 1944 pour leur appartenance au mouvement FT…	OL9048750W
Foreign Ethnics in Hellenistic Egypt (Prosopographia Ptolemaica, V. 10)	Csaba A. La'Da	Under the Ptolemies thousands of Greek-speaking foreigners were resident in Egypt: they were active in the armed forces, in the administration, in commerce. In official and notarial documents they ar…	OL9097727W