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1) The leavers
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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"Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the extraordinary stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. Her subjects have every reason to be wary around reporters, but Cornejo Villavicencio has unmatched access to their stories. Her work culminates in a stunning, essential read for our times. Born in Ecuador and brought to the United States when she was five years old, Cornejo Villavicencio...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Fleeing the economic and political strife of 1990s Peru, undocumented factory worker Ana struggles to support her family while fending off the challenges of discrimination, sexual harassment, and a loan shark's criminal enforcers.
5) Betrayed
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"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,...
6) Frontera
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sheriff in Arizona investigates an illegal Mexican immigrant for the murder of the former sheriff's wife.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Needing to keep his honor-bound commitment, Texas ranch foreman Pete returns the body of illegal Mexican immigrant ranch-hand Melquiades Estrada to his preferred resting place in the Mexican wilderness. Estrada had been accidentally shot by Mike, a newly-arrived U.S. border patrolman. Pete forces Mike to participate in his cross-country ritual of duty -- a voyage filled with revenge and redemption that will change both men forever -- and bring some...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
14) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Syrian refugee in Helsinki illegally and a middle-aged Finnish salesman form an unlikely friendship when the salesman leaves his job and wife to buy a restaurant and offers the refugee a job.
17) Yellow Rose
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Rose, a young Filipina from a small Texas town, pursues her dream to become a country music singer.
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A probing, ground-level investigation of illegal immigration and the people on both sides of the battle to secure the U.S.—Mexico border.
With illegal immigration burning as a contentious issue in American politics, Reuters reporter Tim Gaynor went into the underbelly of the border and to the heart of illegal immigration: along the 45-mile trek down the illegal alien "superhighway." Through scorpion-strewn trails with Mexican migrants and drug...
20) Wink of an eye
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"On the run from a double-cross, Las Vegas private investigator Gypsy Moran shows up unexpectedly at his sister Rhonda's house in Wink, Texas. She introduces Gypsy to one of her former students, 12-year-old Tatum McCallen, who is in need of Gypsy's services. Tatum wants to hire Gypsy to investigate his father Ryce's alleged suicide. His dad was a deputy with the Sheriff's department and was found hanged in their backyard. Tatum believes his father...
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