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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...
2) O pioneers!
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Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend.
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""Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester wears a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sign of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name, her husband begins his vindictive search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect. Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of...
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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
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xiv, 347 p. ; 25 cm.
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Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tilo is an immigrant from India, and a shopkeeper, who is also the "Mistress of Spices." The spices which she gives to her customers help them to satisfy their needs and desires. Her life changes when she falls in love with Doug, an American man.
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Berrybender narratives volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
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9 CDs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Berrybender narratives volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
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xv, 236 p. ; 25 cm.
10) Flower drum song
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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This unforgettable Broadway smash, filled with memorable songs and brilliant dances, centers on a Hong Kong girl who comes to San Francisco for an arranged marriage. Features the hit tunes: "I enjoy being a girl", "Chop Suey", and "A hundred million miracles."
11) In a gilded cage
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2009
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Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.
12) Brooklyn
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Eilis Lacey moves from Ireland to 1950s Brooklyn, she finds romance and new life, but events in Ireland call her back home and she finds she must choose between the two countries and lives she has made in each.
13) Brooklyn
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
2016
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1 Blu-ray (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is the emotional tale of Eilis Lacey, a young Irish immigrant building a new life in 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland for the shores of New York City and is soon swept up by the intoxicating charms of new love. But when her new life is disrupted by her past, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
"Fans of the novel, of which I'm one, may find the film sweeter and more romantic...
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In this powerful, touching memoir of a critically acclaimed Chinese-American writer, taste becomes the keeper of memory and food the keeper of culture when Nai-nai, her extraordinary grandmother, arrives from mainland China.
Leslie Li's paternal grandfather, Li Zogren, was China's first democratically elected vice president, to whom Chiang Kai-shek left control of the country when he fled to Formosa in 1949. Nine years later, Li's wife, Nai-nai,...
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