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1609 1609 Elizabeth Massie Nathaniel and Richard are delighted when Captain John Smith hires them as laborers aboard a ship bound for the New World. They will discover gold! Instead, they find that Virginia is a land of both b… OL1000870W
Beyond the melting pot Beyond the melting pot Nathan Glazer seventh paperback printing, November 1968 OL10477794W
O Kaplan, my Kaplan! O Kaplan, my Kaplan! Leo Calvin Rosten xxi, 361 p. ; 22 cm OL10558317W
Evergreen Evergreen Belva Plain **8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year:** A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work… OL10672947W
New life--new land New life--new land Ann Fears Crawford Presents the experiences of a variety of early women settlers on the Texas frontier. OL108119W
The Thanksgiving Door The Thanksgiving Door 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… OL110989W
Locke 1928 Locke 1928 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, … OL11989744W
Giants in the Earth Giants in the Earth O. E. Rølvaag The novel describes struggle of Norwegian settlers in eastern South Dakota, based on the actual lives of the author's parents in law. The settlers make progress, then face further problems, such as g… OL12394883W
A city at war A city at war 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… OL12489614W
O Pioneers! O Pioneers! Willa Cather "Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska cou… OL12795W
The immigration handbook The immigration handbook Ivan Vasic "This volume explains the steps and procedures necessary for an individual to navigate the U.S. immigration system. The author provides information of the process for obtaining visas, permanent resid… OL13614257W
Mitla Pass Mitla Pass Leon Uris Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated… OL14847871W
Mijn land van veel en vol Mijn land van veel en vol Paul Gerbrands Pleidooi voor de inkrimping van de bevolking van Nederland. OL14904892W
Da Cercenasco nel mondo Da Cercenasco nel mondo Silvio Genero L'emigrazione piemontese in America, per lunghi anni, è stata la realtà di molte famiglie che, tra sogni e paure, hanno varcato l'oceano con la speranza di dare ai loro figli un avvenire sicuro. Att… OL15008175W
In the small, small night In the small, small night Jane Kurtz Kofi can't sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling him two folktales from their native Ghana about the nat… OL15036571W
Home of the Brave Home of the Brave Katherine Applegate Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comf… OL15068822W
Threads and flames Threads and flames 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. OL15112170W
Flight to freedom Flight to freedom Ana Veciana-Suarez Writing in the diary which her father gave her, thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to… OL15139815W
97 Orchard 97 Orchard Jane Ziegelman In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish,… OL15178517W
In the shadow of the cypress In the shadow of the cypress Thomas Steinbeck A turn-of-the-twentieth-century discovery of ancient jade artifacts on California's Monterey Peninsula by a Stanford marine biology professor is marked by violent debates and a tragic accident. OL15639860W
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