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English
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In a debut about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and holes up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles. Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed, because the doctors confirmed he will finally have the son...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Meeting Charles at a former speakeasy in Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb is shocked to discover a Black man who is fluent in Yiddish and becomes encouraged at the prospect of a better life in America.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An intimate work of autobiographical fiction traces the experiences of a writer who in the wake of a life-threatening heart attack reevaluates his past as a member of a Bosnian war refugee family.
44) In the distance
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Language
English
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Description
"A young Swedish boy finds himself penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman,...
45) The storm
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn Shahryar's history, in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. That story intersects with those of a Japanese...
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English
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"It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, his family decides, not quite unanimously, to start life over in California. Ironically, Anvar's deeply devout mother and his model-Muslim brother adjust easily to life in America, while his fun-loving father can't...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
48) Amerika
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kafka's novel follows the misadventures of 16-year-old Karl Rossman, a European boy whose parents ship him off to America after he is seduced by a servant girl. On arrival, Karl finds an America only Kafka could have envisioned--and the still hopeful youth is soon set upon by odd circumstance and suspect traveling companions.
Author
Series
A Dowry Girls adventure volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two friends seek their fortunes and mates by shipping off to the New World. At 17, Gwenneth Hume and Patience O'Connor enjoy a happy life near Grenfels Corners in the British Isles. Patience is learning midwifery and preparing to leave a convent orphanage, while Gwenneth, an excellent cook, enjoys helping out at her father's inn. Despite their contentment, when a friend tells them about opportunities in the New World, they book passage on a ship that...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899...
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Series
Amish Beginnings volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A young Amish woman fends off the matchmaking efforts of her fellow passengers on the Charming Nancy--the ship that brought the first wave of Amish to America in 1737"--
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Chandaria family--emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi--have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, Sunil, after quitting the pre-med track, is enrolled in a PhD program in philosophy at Harvard. But the parents have kept a very important secret from...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. In this...
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English
Description
A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding two sisters and their mother in a Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother -- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her...
55) Our frail blood
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 485 pages : geneological table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the great American Dream. But for their five, first-generation children, an idyllic childhood didn't quite translate into success and happiness. Rather, the pressures of living up to expectations drove a wide rift through the family. After decades apart, the five siblings find themselves together again at their...
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English
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After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
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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...
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Language
English
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Description
"The Lily of the West is the story of Mary Katherine Haroney, known as the notorious "Big Nose Kate." In the American West of the 1800s, women had few choices, but Kate made her own way. A Hungarian immigrant, Kate forged her way across the American frontier, an orphaned stowaway on a Mississippi riverboat who became the belle of the Dodge City music halls, known for her outspoken manner and her alluring appearance. Classically educated, she spoke...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During a snowy Cleveland February, newlyweds Muneer and Saeedah are starting their lives in America and expecting their first child. But Muneer harbors a secret: the word divorce has begun whispering itself in his ear. Soon, their marriage will end, and Muneer will return to Saudi Arabia, while Saeedah remains in Cleveland with their daughter, Hanadi. The more time she shares with her daughter, the more Saeedah wants to keep her close, and before...
60) Norte
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1. edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Esta es una historia de tres destinos separados por el tiempo y el espacio pero interconectados por la violencia, el desarraigo, la creacion y la locura; tres vidas extraviadas en el cruce de mundos y fronteras que caracteriza a nuestra epoca. En un pequeno pueblo del norte de Mexico, Jesus deja el colegio y se une a una pandilla. Para impresionar a sus nuevos companeros apunala a una prostituta, iniciando asi una carrera criminal que le llevara a...
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