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21) Super 8
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
22) Maricela
Series
Publisher
All Things Family
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A girl who has fled to the United States from El Salvador tries to make friends while keeping her pride in her ethnic background.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
25) Le Havre
Series
Criterion collection volume 619
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A young African refugee is saved from deportation by a kindly old man, who shines shoes for a living, and his tight-knit community.
Publisher
Echo Cave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Rubber Room is mroe than a hangout for malcontents. It is a place where people believe art is more powerful than money, a dangerous idea in a world where filthy rich screw bums are ruining everything. Alexis Thrill, the world's work writer stands up to these greedy buggers. His call to action, "What good is art if it doesn't start a riot!"
Author
Publisher
Palibrio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"El tema principal que se aborda en este libro es la migración de latinos hacia los Estados Unidos, personas de América del Sur, de El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, de México que viajan con muchas carencias, cruzan la frontera buscando el sueño americana y a veces terminan en tragedias, sufrimiento y hasta llegar a la muerte. Todas las historias aquí descritas son historias verdaderas, se les cambiaron los nombres a los actores principales por...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a distant future, after the invention of faster-than-light space travel has propelled a still-immature mankind into the far corners of the Milky Way, the novel features creatures of immense variety--amoebas that cover entire worlds, sensual females that feed on substances from their males' reproductive systems, talking reptiles, and other creations drawn from the classics of Cuban and international science fiction--all of which serve as colleagues,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After learning of her family's illegal immigrant status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and that deportation is a real threat, uncertainties she endures as she falls for the son of a congressman who opposes an immigration reform bill.
Jasmine de los Santos has studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams. Then her parents...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deeply reported, newsbreaking account the humanitarian crisis of our time by the journalist who has been at the center of the story: MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff, winner of the 2019 Walter Cronkite Award, offers a chilling expose of the human cost of the Trump administration's border and immigration policies"--
Author
Publisher
& Other Stories
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her...
Publisher
Legend Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Travel into the future to land on an asteroid where people are shrunk to a mere six inches tall! A crew of astronauts is held captive by a race of miniature people who are under attack by a mysterious legion of aliens. Meanwhile, a rescue ship from Earth is being organized to save the captured astronauts.
36) Parachute kids
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
37) Farmingville
Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the people of Farmingville, New York, and how they are dealing with the influx of about 1,500 Mexican workers.
39) Crossing over
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
An immigration officer must protect the U.S. border in Los Angeles from those trying to pursue the American Dream, as those around him try to break the rules by fraud, blackmail, and work-site enforcement.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Oliver "Spaghetti-O" Jones's dad is about to be jailed for a crime he didn't commit, and Oliver believes the only way to save him is with the help of his favorite lucha-libre wrestler turned action star, Tito the Bonecrusher. Together with his best friend, Brianna (a.k.a. "Brain"), and their new ally Paul "Popcorn" Robards, Oliver devises a madcap plan to spring his dad from a Florida correctional facility. Heartwarming and hilarious, this book looks...
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