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Author
Publisher
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
ix, 230 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is an essential reference and guide for the professional and amateur geneologist. It is designed to be used throughout the English speaking world and especially by people of mixed European ancestry.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Noor returns to her native Iran for the first time in thirty years, with her very American daughter, Lily, so much about her homeland is different. But Café Leila--the restaurant Noor's family has run for three generations--hasn't changed. A neighborhood café in Tehran is at the center of this powerful and transporting story of love, family, friendship, and homecoming told against the backdrop of Iran's rich, yet tragic, history"--
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xlvii, 483 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art - as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten years ago, Tess Cross left her newborn daughter with her sister and hightailed it out of what she called NoWhere, Colorado. Now she returns to the eastern plains of Colorado, full of raw rage at herself and at the universe, yearning for the life she never led and the daughter she left behind. As a levantona who has been running drugs and illegal immigrants once they're beyond the US-Mexico border, she's knowingly and even defiantly entered into...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Vintage books trade paperback [edition].
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brown Album is a stirring collection of essays, at times humorous and at times profound, drawn from more than a decade of Khakpour's work. Altogether, it reveals the tolls that immigrant life in this country can take on a person and the joys that life can give."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
I can read book volume level 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the experiences of two young brothers and their family, immigrants from Sweden, from their arrival in New York through the journey to their new home in Minnesota.
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