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Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Follow one man as he leaves behind everything in Central America. With little sense of direction and only his family's memories as company, he faces the dangers in Mexico and tries to cross into freedom and the United States.
Prepárese para dejarlo todo atrás desde Sur y Centro America viajando solo con un vago sentido de dirección y el eco de su familia aún en sus oídos. Prepárese para enfrentarse a la intimidación, corrupción y el peligro...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is...
84) Sparrow Jack
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, Joyn Bardsley, an immigrant from England, brought one thousand sparrows from his home country back to Philadelphia, where he hoped they would help save the trees from the inch-worms that were destroying them. Based on a true story.
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Language
English
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Formats
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of West of Here, a novel that chronicles a hundred-and-seventy years of American nation-building from numerous points-of-view across place and time, and explores the Great American Experiment from its formative days to the present moment and asks whether or not our nation has made good on its promises"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Artists and athletes. Educators and journalists. Activists and inventors. CEOs and comedians. Celebrate the genius, diversity, and grit of immigrants and refugees in this boldly illustrated guide to 36 American trailblazers. The men and women in this book represent nations from Somalia to Germany, from Syria to China, from Mexico to Sweden, and more. They are people like Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international singing sensation Celia...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is a hopeful story of the changing face of education in America. At White Center Heights Elementary School, located just south of Seattle, Washington, the students speak twenty-seven different languages and come from fifty different countries. Eighty percent of the students speak no English at home and ninety percent qualify for free or reduced lunch. As schools grow more diverse across the country, White Center Heights appears more as a window...
Author
Language
English
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2024: Set in A Country Where You Want to Travel
Arab American Heritage Month
Junior Fiction Realistic Fiction
Teen Award Winners
Arab American Heritage Month
Junior Fiction Realistic Fiction
Teen Award Winners
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family...
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful novel, Danielle Steel tells the story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first-generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the...
When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A first English-language translation of a work by one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers finds the son of a world-famous photographer exchanging letters with a family friend about the photographer's impoverished youth in Tunisia and his qualities as a father.
93) The secret river
Author
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Moving between the slums of nineteenth-century London and the convict colonies of Australia, chronicles the lives and fortunes of the early pioneers of New South Wales, in a fictitious novel based on the author's own family history.
94) Hester Street
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish woman comes to America in the 1890s, only to discover that her husband, Jake, has given up the ways of the old country, and taken up with a new girlfriend, and a new life.
98) Here I am
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story in pictures of a family newly immigrated to the United Sates and the challenges of starting a life in a new place.
100) A world between
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Hashimoto's debut novel follows the lives of Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah, two young immigrant women who meet and fall into a whirlwind romance as college students in Boston in 2004. Years later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of San Francisco, and find themselves drawn back in together. A World Between documents Eleanor and Leena's relationship as they navigate family, female friendship, queerness, and their own history together"--...
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