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[2019]
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Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, private fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds; your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. Jane, an immigrant...
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Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
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Vintage Español, Una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
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220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"A remarkable true story from social justice advocate and national bestselling author Julissa Arce about her journey to belong in America while growing up undocumented in Texas."--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
10) Silverview
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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317 pages ; 24 cm
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It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-and then vanishes.Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didn't rejoin her family...
14) Margarita
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Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An undocumented lesbian Mexican nanny living in Toronto finds her life in pieces when her employers prepare to fire her and her girlfriend shows an unwillingness to make a commitment.
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Latin American Youth Center
Pub. Date
c2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Joy-Grace is a fashionista, and this week is her school's culture day. She wants to bring in a garmet to reflect her background, but there's only one problem: her family is from Nigeria, Jamaica, AND Ethiopia! Will Joy-Grace be able to find the perfect dress to celebrate all of who she is in time for culture day?"--Publisher's website.
16) Betrayed
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Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
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"Blockbuster author Lisa Scottoline returns to the Rosato & Associates law firm with Betrayed, and maverick lawyer Judy Carrier takes the lead in a case that's more personal than ever. Judy has always championed the underdog, so when Iris, the housekeeper and best friend of Judy's beloved Aunt Barb, is found dead of an apparent heart attack, Judy begins to suspect foul play. The circumstances of the death leave Judy with more questions than answers,...
17) Frontera
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sheriff in Arizona investigates an illegal Mexican immigrant for the murder of the former sheriff's wife.
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Gifty is a sixth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a Mexican woman loses contact with her son after he attempts to cross the border into the United States, she meets a young man who has been deported back to Mexico and both of their lives change in drastic ways.
20) The jungle
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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the...
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