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3) 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.
4) Illegal
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 251 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
5) Indivisible
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Description
New York City high school student Mateo dreams of becoming a Broadway star, but his life is transformed after his parents are deported to Mexico.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
As Sarah Burke and her crew of police detectives investigate an apparent murder-suicide in a well-known family of local merchants, their facade of diligent respectability explodes in a burst of violence that exposes long-concealed family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Discovering that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan, American-born Jason fears that she has been deported and runs away to New York City to seek a family member who might be able to help.
Author
Description
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
Author
Publisher
Tyrant Books
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Zou Lei, a Chinese Muslim of the Uighur tribe, enters the U.S. via Mexico, and makes her way to New York City. Keeping a low profile and employed in a restaurant, she meets Skinner, a veteran of the Iraqi war, who's afflicted with PTSD.
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.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
389 p. : ill., front. ; 21 cm.
Description
J.D. Jessup, having left his painful past and music for a job on a Tucson, Arizona, organic farm, unknowingly unleashes a chain of deadly events after he decides to hide a beautiful illegal alien, who was on the verge of death, instead of calling Border Patrol.
17) The leavers
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Excel spends his days trying to seem like an unremarkable American teenager, he carefully avoids the spotlight. But Excel knows that his family is far from normal. His mother, Maxima, was once a Filipina B-movie action star who now makes her living scamming men online. The old man they live with is not his grandfather, but Maxima's lifelong martial arts trainer. And years ago, on Excel's tenth birthday, Maxima revealed a secret that he must keep forever....
20) 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,...
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