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Series
Kane and Abel series volume 2
Language
English
Description
From international bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, The Prodigal Daughter, "A page-turner" (The Washington Post).
HER FUTURE IS AMBITION.
With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel's daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future. But she wants more: to be the first female president.
HIS FUTURE IS WEALTH.
2) You are life
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every child is bursting with amazing possibilities and poet Bao Phi celebrates the complex identity of the children of immigrants and refugees.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wen Zhou is the daughter and only child of Chinese immigrants whose move to the lucky country has proven to be not so lucky. Wen and her friend, Henry Xiao whose mum and dad are also poor immigrants, both dream of escape from their unhappy circumstances, and they form a plan to sit an entrance exam to a selective high school far from home. But when tragedy strikes, it will take all of Wen's resilience and resourcefulness to get herself and Henry...
Author
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind his marriage and job in New York, Jonas, the son of Ethiopian immigrants, sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today.
5) Rosa's song
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Language
English
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Description
"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
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Language
English
Description
2003: the US has officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has dropped out of her life. And her heart is broken. Shadi devours her own pain,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster harcover edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in white Utah, Tunde and his younger brother Tayo are disoriented enough ... but when mental illness makes their mother a stranger, Tunde is completely at sea. That confused time creates a lasting traumatic impression on Tunde, who holds on to his fractured family as Dad tries to make a living from a peripatetic life of trying and shedding new careers like second skins. Nigerian American Rhodes Scholar and Caine Prize-winning first novelist...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...
11) I am golden
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This moving ode to the immigrant experience, as well as a manifesto of self-love for Chinese American children, is a jubilant celebration of accepting who you are.
12) The namesake
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world -- conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs.
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Language
English
Description
What does the future hold for those born in the years of the Dragon, Tiger, and Goat? In present day New Orleans, Xuan Trung, former beauty queen turned refugee after the Fall of Saigon, is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs. But Trac, Nhi and Trieu diverge completely from their immigrant parents' expectations. Successful lawyer Trac hides her sexuality from her family; Nhi competes as the only woman...
Author
Series
Marriage game novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling her.... Sam Mehta is the self-made CEO of a corporate consultancy specializing in downsizing....
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 562 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Goodbye, Columbus meets the novels of Amy Tan in this American story of class, society and identity that marks the debut of a new voice in fiction"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's first novel is a story about an American girl in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance. Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before she must return to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"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, and his Guatemalan...
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