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A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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All Together Now - Ages 19+
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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All Together Now - Ages 19+
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Shares the author's experiences as an only child born to a single mother in Korea, who abruptly moved to the United States as a teenager and the difficulties she had fitting in in both countries.
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Riverhead Books
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2015.
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English
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"On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother Dzhokhar was captured and ultimately charged on thirty federal counts. Yet long after the bombings and the terror they sowed, after all the testimony and debate, what we still haven't learned is why. Why did the American Dream go...
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Catapult
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[2022]
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English
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Zuhour, young Omani woman attempting to assimilate in Britain, reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life, including her bond with Bint Aamir, a woman she thought of as her grandmother, who passed away after Zuhour left the Arabian peninsula.
5) Brooklyn
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
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Clarkson Potter/Publishers
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[2019]
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IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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National Arab American Heritage Month for Teens
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I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and...
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