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Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of "going home again." It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. Ayad Akhtar forges a new narrative voice to capture a country in which debt has ruined countless...
63) The latecomers
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, sixteen-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her same-age sweetheart Thom. But when Thom dies suddenly of ship fever on their ocean crossing, Bridey finds herself alone and pregnant in a strange new world.
Forced by circumstance to give up the baby for adoption, Bridey finds work as a maid for the Hollingworth family at a lavish, sprawling estate. It's the dawn of a new century: innovative technologies are emerging,...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
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Description
The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
"An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"This remarkable, deeply moving story brings you deep into the hearts and souls of a tight-knit group of friends--girls growing up in Queens, the polyglot borough of New York, where the streets sprawl for miles and echo with voices from all over the world, and the scent of bubbling oil, chopped garlic, and grilled meats waft through open windows as night comes to the neighborhood. Here Nadira, Mae, Trish, and Aisha become friends for life--or so they...
67) I'm new here
Author
Series
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
What do African dance, samosas, and Japanese gardens have in common? They are all gifts the United States received from immigrants: the vibrant, multifaceted people who share their heritage and traditions to enrich the fabric of our daily lives. From Jewish delis to bagpipes, bodegas and Zen Buddhism, this joyful ABC journey is a celebration of immigrants: our neighbors, our friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core -- and force...
Author
Series
Amy Wu volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Amy Wu would love to welcome the new student in her class, but Lin has just come from China and does not speak much English, so with the help of her family Amy tries to work out a way to bridge the language gap.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future.
74) A different pond
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy never dreamed she would become a killer, but after she strikes out in self-defense, she finds herself on the run from the police and trying to adjust to her new identity.
77) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
Author
Language
English
Description
In March of 1887, Rocco, an eleven-year-old from an Italian village, arrives in New York CIty where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician, but he finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to make things better, whatever the cost to himself.
80) The unpassing
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman, while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby...
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