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The Book of Unknown Americans
Cristina Henríquez
Format: Book
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When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it's not long before Maribel attracts the attention... |
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Behold the Dreamers
Imbolo Mbue - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior... |
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Brooklyn: A Novel
Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department... |
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A Place for Us: A Novel
Fatima Farheen Mirza - SJP for Hogarth
Format: Paperback
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A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity, and belonging. As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia: their headstrong, eldest daughter, whose marriage... |
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The Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove Press
Format: Paperback
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In these powerful stories, written over a period of twenty years and set in both Vietnam and America, Nguyen paints a vivid portrait of the experiences of people leading lives between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. With the same incisiveness as in The... |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz - Riverhead Books
Format: Paperback
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Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who - from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister - dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku - a curse... |
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NON-FICTION
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A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious
Roya Hakakian
Format: Book
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Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical... |
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Welcome to the United States : a guide for new immigrants.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Format: Book
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A comprehensive guide for new permanent residents. The guide contains practical information to help immigrants settle into everyday life in the United States, as well as basic civics information that introduces new immigrants to the U.S. system of government.
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea - Little
Format: Paperback
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In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national... |
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri - Catapult
Format: Book
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What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee... |
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