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Salma joins the team / by Ramadan, Ahmad Danny.; Bron, Anna,1989-;
Salma dreams of becoming a champion swimmer like her hero, Olympian Yusra Mardini. So when she signs up for her school's swim club, it feels like her dreams could come true... until mean comments from older girls at the pool and women at her mosque spark body image and self-esteem issues. But with the help of her close friends and family--the team that always has her back--Salma is ready to claim her place in the pool.
Subjects: Syrian Canadians; Siblings; Muslims; Swimming; Immigrants; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Martyr! / by Akbar, Kaveh,author.;
"Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past ... toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grief; Immigrants; Interpersonal relations; Painters; Terminally ill;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Martyr! [text (large print)] / by Akbar, Kaveh,author.;
"Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past ... toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Grief; Immigrants; Interpersonal relations; Painters; Terminally ill;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the country of others / by Slimani, Leïla,1981-author.; Taylor, Sam,1970-translator.; translation of:Slimani, Leïla,1981-Pays des autres.English.;
"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during World War II. After the war, the couple settles in Morocco. While Amine tries to cultivate his family farm's rocky terrain, Mathilde feels her vitality sapped by the isolation, the harsh climate, the lack of money, and the mistrust she inspires as a foreigner. Left increasingly alone to raise her two children in a world whose rules she does not understand, and with her daughter taunted at school by rich French girls for her secondhand clothes and unruly hair, Mathilde goes from being reduced to a farmer's wife to defying the country's chauvinism and repressive social codes by offering medical services to the rural population. As tensions mount between the Moroccans and the French colonists, Amine finds himself caught in the crossfire: in solidarity with his Moroccan workers yet also a landowner, despised by the French yet married to a Frenchwoman, and proud of his wife's resolve but ashamed by her refusal to be subjugated. All of them live in the country of others--especially the women, forced to live in the land of men--and with this novel, Leila Slimani issues the first salvo in their emancipation"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Slimani, Leïla, 1981-; Women immigrants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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House of sticks : a memoir / by Tran, Ly,1989-author.;
"A powerful memoir by 25-year-old Ly Tran about her immigrant experience and her recent family history in the aftermath of the war that spans from Vietnam to Brooklyn, and ultimately to the Ivy League."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Tran, Ly, 1989-; Tran, Ly, 1989-; Immigrant youth; Vietnamese American women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The turtle of Michigan : a novel / by Nye, Naomi Shihab.; Peterschmidt, Betsy.;
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.Ages 8-12.Grades 4-6.LSC
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Moving, Household; Families; Schools;
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Love can't feed you : a novel / by Sy, Cherry Lou,author.;
"A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires Love Can't Feed You is a stunning, heartbreaking, and compressed look at coming of age, shifting notions of home, and the disintegration of the American dream. It asks us: What does it mean to be of multiple cultures without a road map for how to belong? After a harrowing flight, Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the United States from the Philippines. They're here to finally reunite with Queenie's Filipina mother, who has been working as a nurse in Brooklyn for the past few years-building a life that everyone hopes will set them up for better prospects. But her mother is not the same woman she was in the Philippines: Something in her face is different, almost hardened, and she seems so American already. Queenie, on the cusp of adulthood, has big dreams of attending college, of spending her days immersed in the pages of books. But there is not enough money for her and her brother to both be in school, so first she must work. Queenie rotates through jobs and settles, tentatively, into her new life, but her brother begins to withdraw and act out, and her father's anger swells. As the pressures of assimilation compound, and the fissures within her family deepen into fractures, Queenie is left suspended between two countries, two identities, and two parents"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Filipino Americans; Immigrants; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Modern Asian family. [graphic novel] / by Jun, Stefano,creator,author,illustrator.;
"A collection of short cartoons from Stefano Jun chronicling his experiences growing up a Korean immigrant in Western Canada. Having moved to Canada as an 8 year old with no knowledge of English, Stefano encounters culture shock, family love, friendship, and ultimately finding a place for himself in the vast country he has called home for 20 years now. These slice of life stories are a keenly observed insight into the experience of growing up in an unfamiliar place. Full of emotion, humour and surprise, Modern Asian Family: Straight Outta Busan is a delight to read."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographical comics.; Nonfiction comics.; Autobiographical comics.; Comics (Graphic works); Personal narratives.; Jun, Stefano; Cartoonists; Cartoonists; Culture shock; Immigrant families; Koreans; Koreans; Korean Canadians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Veselka. by Fiore, Michael,film director.; Duchovny, David,actor.; Gravitas Ventures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
David DuchovnyOriginally produced by Gravitas Ventures in 2024.As the second-generation owner of New York’s beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressure of stepping into his father’s shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Food industry and trade.; Instructional films.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; Emigration and immigration.; War.; Families.; Political participation.; Communities.; Ukraine.; Restaurants.; New York (State).;
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Expanding Sanctuary. by Sotomayor, Kristal,film director.; New Day Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by New Day Films in 2023.Winner of the Philadelphia Filmmaker Award at the BlackStar Film Festival, EXPANDING SANCTUARY follows an immigrant mother who becomes a powerful community leader in the fight to end police data-sharing with ICE. The film captures her transformation from personal desire to bring her mother to the U.S. into a passionate, collective movement for immigrant rights and family protection.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Criminal law.; Human rights.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; Emigration and immigration.; Families.; Police.; United States.; Mexico.; Deportation.; Hispanic Americans.;
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