Enjoy these books about immigrants from historical times and modern times.
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The Immigrants
Howard Fast - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Book
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In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Quick to ascend from the tragic depths of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Dan Lavette becomes... |
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Let Freedom Ring
Al Lacy - Thorndike Press
Format: Book
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Book 1 in the Shadow of Liberty series From 1852 to 1943, a numberless sea of immigrants poured into New York harbor in search of religious freedom and the opportunity to forge a better life. These are their stories. January, 1886. Crimean War hero Vladimir Petrovna faces bankruptcy,... |
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Patterns of Love
Robin Lee Hatcher - ZondervanPublishingHouse
Format: Paperback
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My dear Beth, Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in my native Sweden, life here is different from what I have known. With my parents' blessing, I have taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young, orphaned nieces.... |
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O Pioneers!
Willa Cather
Format: Book
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One of America's greatest women writers, Willa Cather established her talent and her reputation with this extraordinary novel - the first of her books set on the Nebraska frontier. A tale of the prairie land encountered by America's Swedish, Czech, Bohemian, and French immigrants.
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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel
Susan Jane Gilman - Grand Central Pub
Format: Book
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In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken... |
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Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel
Jean Kwok - William Morrow
Format: Book
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A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women - two sisters and their mother - in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling... |
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You Bring the Distant Near
Mitali Perkins - Thorndike Press Large Print
Format: Library Binding
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This elegant young adult novel captures the immigrant experience for one Indian-American family with humor and heart. Told in alternating teen voices across three generations, You Bring the Distant Near explores sisterhood, first loves, friendship, and the inheritance of culture--for... |
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America Is Not the Heart: A Novel
ELAINE CASTILLO - Viking
Format: Book
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Three generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they're building in America. How many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America, disowned by her parents in the Philippines,... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Book
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From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home.
As teenagers in a Lagos secondary... |
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Swimming in the Moon: A Novel
Pamela Schoenewaldt - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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A new historical novel from Pamela Schoenewaldt, the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers. Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy mistress with song.... |
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The Immigrant Brides Collection
Irene B. Brand - Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Format: Book
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Lofty dreams of a new and better life lured untold thousands to America between 1775 and 1906. Among those “huddled masses yearning to be free” are nine displaced individuals dumped upon American soil and trying to figure out how to pursue happiness, make a home, and secure... |
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Fields of Grace
Kim Vogel Sawyer - Bethany House
Format: Paperback
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With their eldest son nearly to the age when he will be drafted into military service, Reinhardt and Lillian Vogt decide to immigrate to America, the land of liberty, with their three sons and Reinhardt's adopted brother, Eli. But when tragedy strikes during the voyage, Lillian and Eli are forced... |
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New York: The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical... |
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Code Name: Zeus
Gary Andersen - Xlibris
Format: Book
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Code Name: Zeus is a story about immigrants from several countries coming together in a remote place in Texas to make their way as Americans. They left their grim existences in faraway parts of the world with no assurance they would find success and happiness. Kursk, TX and surrounding... |
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