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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From Patricia Engel comes an exquisite collection of ten haunting, award-winning short stories set across the Americas and linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise. Two Colombian expats meet as strangers on the rainy streets of New York City, both burdened with traumatic pasts. In Cuba, a woman discovers her deceased brother's bones have been stolen, and the love of her life returns from Ecuador for a one-night visit. A cash-strapped...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between...
83) Hawaii
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a New England farm boy who has decided that the Lord has commanded him to go to Hawaii in order to Christianize its inhabitants.
86) Death rattle
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Carmen Vega's boyfriend tries to kill her, she hands over all her savings to a smuggler and sets out from Tijuana in a small, leaky boat. Within sight of the California coast, the boat starts to sink, and its passengers have to be rescued by border patrol. Soon, Carmen turns up dead in a privately-operated Migrant Detention Center. Neither Nick Finn, the officer who saved Carmen from drowning, or his wife, human-rights lawyer Mona Jimenez, are...
87) The gnome's eye
Author
Publisher
Orca Book
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Theresa and her family immigrate to Canada after World War II, she confronts her many fears with the help of a talisman given to her by a friend in Austria.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.
"Dos familias cuyas esperanzas chocan con el destino. Y una extraordinaria novela que nos ofrece una poderosa y nueva definición de lo que significa ser americano. Arturo y Alma Rivera han vivido toda la vida en México. Un día, Maribel,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danbi is thrilled to start her new school in America. But a bit nervous too, for when she walks into the classroom, everything goes quiet. Everyone stares. Danbi wants to join in the dances and the games, but she doesn't know the rules and just can't get anything right. Luckily, she isn't one to give up. With a spark of imagination, she makes up a new game and leads her classmates on a parade to remember! Danbi Leads the School Parade introduces...
Author
Series
Emerald ballad volume 4
Language
English
Description
Morgan Fitzgerald, Michael and Sara Burke, and Evan and Nora Whitaker try to build a new life in the United States.
92) I wish you knew
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her and the other students to meet around an old oak tree and share the things they wished their teacher knew about their life at home.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The sonnet proves formally malleable as de la Paz breaks and rejoins its tradition throughout this collection, embarking on a broader conversation about what fits and how one adapts"--
Author
Language
English
Description
In this novel set in multiple time periods, present-day travelers on a train and their ancestors more than a century before are brought together by the history they share against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush and the development of the Continental Railroad.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
9 DVDs (1,637 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The first-ever dramatic miniseries to appear on American television spans decades and generations to trace the epic story of the Jordache family from 1945 to the late 1960s.
100) Something to hide
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. When a police detective is taken off life support after falling into a coma, only an autopsy reveals the murderous act that precipitated her death. She'd been working on a special task force within North London's Nigerian community, and Acting Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley is...
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