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Kensington Market [videorecording] : heart of the city / by Clarfield, Stuart,screenwriter,film director.; Mission Media Enterprises,film distributor.;
A feature documentary that tells the story of the many generations of immigrants who have made Kensington home for over 150 years, explores the personalities in the market today, and observes the forces that are threatening the market's survival. Today, Kensington Market is a delightfully human and colorful alternative to the skyscraper draped Toronto metropolis that is shooting up around it. Through numerous incarnations, the market has managed to hold onto its unique, eclectic charm and its free-spirited nature.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Ethnic neighborhoods; Emigration and immigration; City and town life; Eccentrics and eccentricities;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The naked don't fear the water : an underground journey with Afghan refugees / by Aikins, Matthieu,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.In this extraordinary book, acclaimed young war reporter Matthieu Aikins chronicles a dangerous journey on the smugglers road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future.
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aikins, Matthieu; Aikins, Matthieu; Immigrants; Refugees; War correspondents;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Salma writes a book / by Ramadan, Ahmad Danny.; Bron, Anna,1989-;
Salma is going to be a big sister! She's determined to be the best sister ever, so she sets out to write the ultimate guidebook to siblinghood. But the more Salma learns about siblings, the more confused she gets, especially since her mama is fighting with her own brother, Khalou Dawood, about who he loves. Can Salma figure out what it means to be a good sister before the baby arrives? About the Series: Charming, creative Salma takes on big feelings with even bigger ideas as she navigates life in a new country, Syrian identity, family changes, and new friendships in this engaging and heartfelt early chapter book series.
Subjects: Syrian Canadians; Siblings; Sisters; Authorship; Immigrants; Families;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival / by Fleming, Melissa(Communication director),author.;
Subjects: Refugees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Brother / by Chariandy, David,1969-author.;
Subjects: Brothers; Immigrants; Trinidadians; Trinidadian Canadians; Shooting; Loss (Psychology);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Where are you from? / by Méndez, Yamile Saied,author.; Kim, Jaime,illustrator.; Liatis, Maria,narrator.;
Read by Maria Liatis.3-8P-3When a girl is asked where she's from-where she's really from-none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn't give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one. Where am I from? You're from hurricanes and dark storms, and a tiny singing frog that calls the island people home when the sun goes to sleep ... With themes of self-acceptance, identity, and home, this powerful, lyrical picture book will resonate with readers young and old, from all backgrounds and of all colors-especially anyone who ever felt that they don't belong.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Families; Grandparent and child; Identity (Psychology); Family life; Grandparent and child; Identity; JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino.; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration.; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism.; VOX books.;
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All my rage / by Tahir, Sabaa.;
Includes Internet addresses.A family extending from Pakistan to California, deals with generations of young love, old regrets, and forgiveness.LSC
Subjects: Pakistani Americans; Families; Immigrants; Forgiveness; Alcoholism; Conflict of generations; Racism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Persians : a novel / by Mahloudji, Sanam,1977-author.;
"Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they're nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose who stayed in Tehran during the revolution. She lives in a shabby apartment, paranoid and alone. Except when she is visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter who takes her debauchery with a side of purpose, and yet somehow manages to survive. Elizabeth's daughters left for America in 1979: Shirin, a charismatic yet outrageous event planner in Houston who considers herself the family's future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist-turned-housewife languishing in the chaparral-filled hills of Los Angeles. And then there's the other granddaughter Bita, the self-righteous but lost law student spending her days in New York City eating pancakes and quietly giving away her belongings. When an annual vacation in Aspen goes wildly awry and Shirin ends up being bailed out of jail by Bita, the family's brittle status quo is cracked open. Shirin embarks upon a grand but half-baked quest to restore the family name. But what does that even mean in a country where the Valiats never mattered? Will they ever realize that life is more than just an old story?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Immigrants; Iranian Americans; Mothers and daughters; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Karla's choice : a John le Carré novel / by Harkaway, Nick,1972-author.; Le Carré, John,1931-2020,creator.;
"An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumor that George Smiley might almost be happy. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead. But in his absence, the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley soon finds himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come and set him on a collision course with the greatest enemy he will ever make. Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in John le Carré's George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Karla's Choice marks a momentous return to the world of spy fiction's greatest writer"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Novels.; Smiley, George (Fictitious character); Cold War; Immigrants; Intelligence service; Spies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Room to dream / by Yang, Kelly.;
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Subjects: Tang, Mia (Fictitious character); Immigrant families; Immigrants; Chinese Americans; Motels; Friendship; Vacations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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