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2023.
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English
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The cofounder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop tells his story of growing up as a gay Chinese kid in 1980s Detroit and how he found refuge in a welcoming Chinese restaurant.
"Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could...
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English
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"A story of perseverance and the power of convictions from the groundbreaking immigrant scientist whose decades-long research led to the COVID-19 vaccines. Katalin Karikao had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikao grew up in a one-room home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman-who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery,...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who searches for answers after her mother dies during plastic surgery. Susan Lieu has long been searching for answers. About her family's past and about her own future. Refugees from the Vietnam War, Susan's family escaped to California in the 1980s after five failed attempts. Upon arrival, Susan's mother was their savvy, charismatic North Star, setting...
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Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When her new classmates tease her, Kanzi finds comfort in wrapping up in a quilt from her teita and writing poetry.
''Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter...
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The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings, his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In the tradition of Katherine Boo and Tracy Kidder, The Hungry Season is “a deeply reported story of aspiration and desperation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review): a nonfiction drama that “reads like the best of fiction” (Mark Arax), tracing one woman’s journey from the mist-covered mountains of Laos to the sunbaked flatlands of Fresno, California as she struggles to overcome the wounds inflicted by war and family alike. As combat rages...
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Before emigrating from Ireland, Lila assures her siblings they will still celebrate Halloween in America, but with no turnips to carve into jack-o-lanterns, Lila must get creative to keep her promise. Includes a recipe for colcannon.
STARRED REVIEW! "This delightful picture book is a must-have for elementary libraries."―School Library Journal starred review An Irish immigrant moves to America, bringing along a now-beloved Halloween tradition....
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Riverhead Books, and imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A masterwork by the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, in which two immigrants’ conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession—a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and...
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Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late 90's and despite their parent's harrowing past, Aiand her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border that tells the story of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policy makers determining their fate"--
"An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate,...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It’s been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers...
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Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together-with their teacher's help-they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale anduse the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success; the entire school participates, and the local TV station covers it in the evening news. Prodded by her classmates...
14) Hangman
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A shockingly original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond"--
"An enthralling and original first novel about exile, diaspora, and the impossibility of Black refuge in America and beyond. In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes, because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick...
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English
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"An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America's political future."—the Whiting Foundation Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious...
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Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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"...this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence."--
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University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada. It deconstructs the essentialist view that attributed to Basques special sheepherding skills by exploring this...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An acclaimed Lincoln historian presents a groundbreaking examination of how immigration in the decades before the civil led to enormous changes in the political landscape, destroyed the Whig party and exacerbated tensions in the country.
"In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation’s demographics, culture, and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns....
19) Signature move
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New City
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Chicago, Zaynab is a thirty-something American-Pakistani lawyer who lives with and cares for her recently widowed, TV-obsessed mother. Alma is a free-spirited Mexican-American bookshop owner. After meeting in a bar, the two quickly fall into bed with each other and embark on a romance, but problems aren't far behind. Zaynab's traditional mother still expects her daughter to marry a man, while Alma finds herself reluctant to get involved with the...
20) Isla to island
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Brooklyn after her parents send her to the United States from Cuba to keep her safe during Castro's regime"--
"This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to the United States and must redefine what home means to her. Marisol loves her colorful island home. Cuba is vibrant with flowers and food and people…but...
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