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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
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FICTION ENGEL 2021
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ENGEL 2021
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FICTION ENGEL 2021
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Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogota.
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KO 2017
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FICTION KO 2017
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KO 2017
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FICTION KO 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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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CASARE 2019
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FICTION CASARE 2019
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"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
4) Lucky boy
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEKARA 2016
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FICTION SEKARA 2016
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEKARA 2016
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FICTION SEKARA 2016
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"A heart-wrenching novel that gives voice to two mothers: a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife whose love for one lucky boy will bind their fates together Solimar Castro-Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ALLEND 2021
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FICTION ALLEND 2021
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD FICTION ALLEND 2013 UNABRIDGED
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CD FICTION ALLEND 2013 UNABRIDGED
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloe, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
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“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times
The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience.
An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty...
The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee experience.
An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty...
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADIGA 2020
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FICTION ADIGA 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADIGA 2020
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FICTION ADIGA 2020
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Danny formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny...