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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The lullaby of Polish girls	Dagmara Dominczyk	Anna lives in Brooklyn. But she didn't always. She grew up in Kielce, Poland, where the summers were long and the politics communist. When her parents were indicted for their alliance with anti-gover…	OL16769399W
Lumen	Ben Pastor	278 p ; 23 cm	OL1965860W
Polish refugees and the Polish American Immigration and Relief Committee	Janusz Cisek	"Drawing on information from committee archives and consultations with prominent members, this book covers such topics as American immigration law, aid for the Polish Republic, and the effect of poli…	OL2136911W
Willow Wind farm	Anne Pellowski	Follows a year in the life of seven-year-old Betsy and her large family on their Wisconsin farm.	OL2140206W
Winding Valley Farm	Anne Pellowski	A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century.	OL2140209W
The Polish Americans	Sean Dolan	Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Polish, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.	OL2240983W
Could you be startin' from somewhere else?	Michael W. Shurgot	"In his stirring, deeply reflective memoir, Michael Shurgot reveals how his childhood in a loving, multiethnic family in a predominantly working-class neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, proved surpri…	OL26451825W
Goodbye, Walter Malinski	Helen Recorvits	In 1934, even though life is hard for Wanda Malinski and her family, she enjoys school, good times with her best friend, and a special relationship with her older brother.	OL2715520W
Cichy bohater	Rita Cosby	Uncovers the author's father's history as a WWII prisoner-of-war, a situation he found himself in after he joined the Polish resistance against the Nazis as a teen, in a book with archival photos and…	OL29274989W
A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauty whose pathetic last …	OL30294W
From an oak tree	Frank J. Jasinski	"Frank is a native of Poland, who with unfailing vigor, survived the many ordeals he faced as a young teen in Europe during WWII. At the onset of the War, he and his family were stripped of their hom…	OL35675735W
Home is where your family is	Katie Kavanagh	During the journey from Poland to America, a young girl realizes that although she is leaving one home, she will find another as long as she is with her family.	OL3944827W
An Ellis Island Christmas	Maxinne Rhea Leighton	Having left Poland and braved ocean storms to join her father in America, Krysia arrives at Ellis Island on Christmas Eve.	OL4125129W
The Polish Americans	Rachel Toor	Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Poles, actors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.	OL4637666W
Polish Americans	Margaret Hall	Describes the conditions in Poland that led people to immigrate to the United States and what their daily lives are like in their new home.	OL5705211W
Korzenie są polskie	Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm	GŁOSY O KSIĄŻCE: „Jak przystalo na uczennice mistrza reportazu i wywiadu - pytania autorki sa niezwykle konkretne, zmuszajace rozmowce do poslugiwania sie materialem faktograficznym - liczbowym i …	OL822805W
Ulica Żółwiego Strumienia	Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm	Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm ULICA ŻOLWIEGO STRUMIENIA Warszawa, Dom Książki 1995, ISBN 83-9003-585-5 Warszawa, Wyd. Twój Styl 2004. ISBN 83-7163-263-0 Recenzje, omówienia…	OL822818W
Theodore Roosevelt	Jennifer L. Armstrong	Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1…	OL891676W
The Matt Urban Story	Matt Lieutenant Colonel Urban	xvii, 518 p. : 23 cm	OL9712939W
Haller's Polish Army in France	Paul S. Valasek	For the first time in English, a history of the Polish Army in France, aka Haller’s Army, aka the Blue Army, aka Armia Hallera, is compiled from regimental histories, memoirs, period reports, letters…	OL9773127W