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"Holding Pattern is a novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we can learn to hold each other. At 28, Kathleen Cheng returns home to live with her single mother, Marissa, an immigrant from China. Her mother, to Katheen's surprise, is in love, and Kathleen helps her mother plan her wedding to a tech entrepreneur. Kathleen takes a job working for an unusual start-up, and as mother and daughter peel back...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the smartest boy at school despite struggling with his English...
3) Martyr!
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
4) No country
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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553 pages ; 24 cm.
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Traces the experiences of a young freedom fighter in mid-nineteenth-century Dublin whose best friend and daughter escape the potato famine by moving to America before their respective descendants move toward a fateful convergence.
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 Blu-ray (89 minute) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
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From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
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Ediciones Kiwi
Pub. Date
2018.
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431 pages ; 23 cm
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"Mi padre abre el sobre lentamente y mama se inclina sobre su hombro. Ambos guardan silencion mientras leen la carta. Espero que my padre se levante de la silla y me abrace, que mi madre grite y empiece a llamar a mis tias para presumir de mi. Pero ninguno de los dos dice nada. En realidad me miran como si acabaran de recibir la peor noticia de su vida en lugar de la mejor. Vale, puede ser que esten tan sorprendidos que se han quedado sin palabras?"--Page...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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335 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
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Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family—and her society—hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She’s hoping for a new beginning. Instead, she finds revolution and chaos. Over fifty...
8) Las Leonas
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Distrib Films US
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"In the outskirts of Rome, six teams compete in the women's soccer championship, the Las Leonas Trophy. All recent immigrants to Italy the majority from South America the participants work busy lives as caregivers and house cleaners throughout the city. Las Leonas follows the daily struggles, dreams, and frustrations of these women; each with their own story of emigration and family history, but united by a shared passion for soccer. Amidst the pressures...
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Sadiq volume 16
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His school is starting a newspaper club, and Sadiq wants to be a reporter--but he is troubled because the editor-in-chief, Katy, seems more intent on embarrassing people with gossip than in reporting actual news stories.
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 2018, Di�egane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the 'Black Rimbaud,' after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, Di�egane decides to search for T.C. Elimane, going down a path that will force him to confront the great tragedies of history, from colonialism to the Holocaust. Alongside...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
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"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
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Con Todo Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"A soon-to-be quinceañera spends the day before her birthday thinking about all the stories her family would tell her about Cuba. Like the delicious warm pastelitos her dad loves, the colorful carnavales in her mom's town of Camagüey, and the sights and sounds of bongos and guiros. But what is she had a wishing tree that brought all of these memories to life? Abuela's Wishing Tree is a lyrical picture book that pays tribute to the Cuban immigrant...
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Publisher
Olive Collins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
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"In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year after their arrival, Goldie blames herself for her sister's...
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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380 pages : illustrations, portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm
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"With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son. At the age of four, Nguyen and his family are...
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
17) Frontera
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Publisher
HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he’s caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is ill-prepared for the unforgiving heat that is sure...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 291 pages ; 25 cm
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"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung's Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone--from the city's first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples--could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
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Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother’s handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda que siempre te quise. (“Forgive me if I failed you....
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