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Maizy Chen's last chance / by Yee, Lisa.;
Includes bibliographical references.Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself.Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Grandparents; Restaurants; Chinese Americans; Immigrants; Children of immigrants; Racism; Genealogy;
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All this could be different / by Mathews, Sarah Thankam,author.;
"From an exhilarating new voice comes a dazzling debut novel about an Indian-American immigrant building a life for herself in the Midwest-a brilliant and utterly absorbing story of love, friendship, and precarity in 21st century America Graduating into the trough of yet another American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. However mind-numbing the work, her entry-level consulting job is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the check for her growing circle of friends in Milwaukee, send money home to her parents in India, and dare to envision a stable future for herself. She even begins dating who she has long wanted-women-and soon develops a crush on Marina, a beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach. But then, as quicklyas it came together, Sneha's life begins to fall apart. Her job and apartment are both suddenly and maddeningly in jeopardy, and closely-guarded secrets and buried traumas resurface, sending her spiraling into shame and isolation. When a chance encounterwith Marina ignites an electric romance, it looks like salvation-if only they can overcome the lie that threatens to undo the trust they've built. A novel of working lives, friendships, and self-discovery in flux, All This Could Be Different is a wry, intimate, and redemptive exploration of the freedom and fragility of youth, and what it means to devote oneself to others in search of a better world"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Novels.; East Indian Americans; Immigrants; Lesbians;
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Tears of salt : a doctor's story / by Bartolo, Pietro,1956-author.; Tilotta, Lidia,author.; Bartolo, Giacomo,author.; Jiang, Chenxin,translator.; translation of:Bartolo, Pietro,1956-Lacrime di sale.English.; revision of:Bartolo, Pietro,1956-Lapedusa.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Bartolo, Pietro, 1956-; Physicians; Immigrants; Immigrants; Refugees; Humanitarian assistance, Italian;
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All the King's daughters : fille du roi.
Subjects: Women immigrants; Marriage records;
© [n.d.]., [n.p.],
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Footsteps in the snow : the Red River diary of Isobel Scott / by Matas, Carol,1949-;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Immigrant children; Frontier and pioneer life;
© c2002., Scholastic,
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A guardian and a thief / by Majumdar, Megha,author.;
"In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and blight, Ma, her two year old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma's husband in the home he has been building for them in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited passports and visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma's purse, with all the treasured documents within it, has been stolen. A Guardian and a Thief tells two stories: the story of Ma and her family, their struggle to emigrate to America, and their devastation in the wake of the theft that changes their fate to one of implacable tragedy; and Boomba, the thief, whose hunger and desperation to care for his family drive him to commit a crime whose consequences he cannot fathom. With stunning control and command, Megha Majumdar paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of two families whose destinies become inexorably entangled, wresting compassion from each narrative as the complexities of each character's circumstances-their helplessness in the face of poverty and corruption, and the need to stave off encroaching catastrophe--are captured with clarity and piercing empathy. A masterful new work from one of the most exciting voices of her generation"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Conduct of life; Climatic changes; Families; Immigrant families; Survival; Theft; Thieves;
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Little gods : a novel / by Jin, Meng,author.;
On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up in America, takes her mother's ashes to China-- to her, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead, Liya's memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China, and Yongzong, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist, an ambivalent mother, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya's own sense of displacement.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; Chinese American women; Immigrants;
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Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis : Canada's anti-Semitic immigration policies in the twentieth century / by Arato, Rona.;
Includes bibliographical references, filmography, Internet addresses and index.A look at the increasing hostility towards Jews in Canada in the 1920s and 30s, and the refusal of the Canadian government to accept the refugee ship the MS St. Louis in 1939. The ship was carrying over 900 Jewish refugees, and it was forced to return to Europe, where hundreds of passengers were later killed in the Holocaust. Includes links to video clips.LSC
Subjects: St. Louis (Ship); Antisemitism; Jewish refugees; Jewish refugees; Jews; Jews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945);
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The sky is falling / by Pearson, Kit,1947-;
Norah and her brother are sent from England to Canada during World War Two because their parents are afraid that Hitler's army will invade England."Ages 8-12"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; British; Emigration and immigration; Brothers and sisters;
© 2007, c1989., Penguin Group,
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I'm new here / by O'Brien, Anne Sibley.;
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.LSC
Subjects: Immigrant children; Somali Americans; Guatemalan Americans; Korean Americans; Assimilation (Sociology);
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