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1) The humans
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
4) Afterlife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she does make it to Bogotá, will she trade the facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her...
Author
Language
English
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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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future–assuming there is one. . . .
André Deschênes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he can find a teacher who will forgive his murderous past–and train him to manipulate odds and control probability. It’s called...
André Deschênes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he can find a teacher who will forgive his murderous past–and train him to manipulate odds and control probability. It’s called...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Blob returns. A geologist unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the north pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum--or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their mission--in this case, the deeply serious pursuit of fun. Ejected from the boring comfort of his office chair, Fletcher finds himself astride the bare...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that the gift-distributing Elfix aliens have disappeared as the Night of Dancing Stars approaches, Geronimo Stiltonix and his spacemice crewmates race to find the missing aliens before the celebration is ruined.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Born in Ecuador and brought to the United States when she was five years old, Cornejo Villavicencio has lived the American Dream. Raised on her father's deliveryman income, she later became one of the first undocumented students admitted into Harvard. She is now a doctoral candidate at Yale University and has written for The New York Times. She weaves her own story among those of the eleven million undocumented who have been thrust into the national...
Author
Publisher
Persea Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
82 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Border Vista, winner of the 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Anni Liu intimately narrates experiences of being undocumented, or precariously documented, in America, in poems that move between China and the United States"--
13) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
367 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Otis's debut story collection explores a variety of bizarre worlds, ranging from grim possible near futures to mysterious alternate presents. Many of the stories share an emphasis on physicality and embodiment, whether it be bodies distorted by alien environments or artifacts, or people thrown into their own bodies through suffering, at other, human hands. Her deft and enthralling writing handles science fiction, fantasy, and everything in between...
16) Attack the block
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gang of tough inner-city kids try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, which turns a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Curiously, he had been living in a small house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This “extraordinary” novel of one man’s border crossing reveals “a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free” (NPR).
Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Héctor finds a name in...
Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Héctor finds a name in...
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