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Scary bird / by Streich, Michel.;
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Subjects: Birds; Emigration and immigration; Difference (Psychology); Belonging (Social psychology); Xenophobia; Fear;

The secret diary of Mona Hasan / by Hussain, Salma(Young adult fiction writer);
The year is 1991. Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The first Gulf War has broken out close by, but it isn't what she expects -- "We didn't even get any days off school! Just my luck." However, the event sparks major change in her life, as her family moves from big-city Dubai in the UAE to small-town Darmouth on the east coast of Canada.LSC
Subjects: Muslim girls; Immigrant children; Friendship; Identity (Psychology); Self-actualization (Psychology);

A place for us / by Fatima Farheen Mirza,1991-author.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; East Indian Americans; Immigrants; Weddings;

Two trees make a forest : in search of my family's past among Taiwan's mountains and coasts / by Lee, Jessica J.,1986-author.;
After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history, as she searches for the pieces of her family left behind. Lee was awarded the 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerge Writer Award. She is originally from London, ON.
Subjects: Lee, Jessica J., 1986-; Lee, Jessica J., 1986-; Emigration and immigration; Landscapes;

Illegally yours : a memoir / by Agustin, Rafael,author.;
"What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish, if you will) American life came undone. While his parents were relieved to no longer live a lie in front of their son, Rafa found himself completely unraveling in the face of his uncertain future. Illegally Yours is a heartwarming, comical look at how this struggling Ecuadorian immigrant family bonded together to navigate Rafa's school life, his parents' work lives, and their shared secret life as undocumented Americans, determined to make the best of their always turbulent and sometimes dangerous American existence. From stories of how he used the Ricky Martin/Jennifer Lopez "Latin Explosion" to his social advantage in the 90s to how his parents, who were doctors in their home country of Ecuador, were reduced to working menial jobs in the US. The family's secret became their struggle, and their struggle became their hustle. An exploration of race within the Latinx community, Illegally Yours revolves around one very simple question: What does it mean to be American?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Agustin, Rafael.; Ecuadorian Americans; Noncitizens;

Sweetness in the belly [videorecording] / by Abdul-mateen Ii, Yahya,actor.; Fanning, Dakota,1994-actor.; Mehari, Zeresenay Berhane,film director.; Mosaku, Wunmi,actor.; Nayyar, Kunal,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Gibb, Camilla.Sweetness in the belly.; Gravitas Ventures (Firm),publisher.;
Dakota Fanning, Kunal Nayyar, Wunmi Mosaku, Yahya Abdul-mateen Ii, Gavin Drea, Peter Bankole, Amerjit Deu.An orphan in Ethiopia escapes as a refugee to England, where upon growing up she works to aid immigrants and refugees in reuniting with their families.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround, 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; British; Ethiopians; Families; Women;
For private home use only.

The Price of Water in Finistère [electronic resource] : by Malmsten, Bodil.aut; CloudLibrary;
'In the same way as there's a partner for every person, there's a place. All you have to do is find the one that's yours among the billions that belong to someone else, you have to be awake, you have to choose.' With this conviction in mind, acclaimed Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country at the age of fifty-five and settles in Brittany. At the heart of this memoir is the conviction that the happiness to be found in Finistère will not allow itself to be, cannot be, expressed in writing. Embroidered around this seeming paradox are poignant, outraged and thought-provoking observations on the widest range of subjects: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the stubbornness of bank managers, the controlling of moles and slugs, death, political hypocrisy, the delights of wild weather. Malmsten's passion and humour shine through every episode she describes, however minor, offering the reader a window onto a solitary life at once touching, thought-provoking and, occasionally, hilarious.College/higher education.Professional and scholarly.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; France; Essays & Narratives; Personal Memoirs; Emigration & Immigration; Essays & Travelogues;
© 2012., Random House,

Bleating of the lambs : Canada's British home children / by Oschefski, Lori.;
Subjects: Home children; British Canadians; Immigrant children;

Transcendent kingdom / by Gyasi, Yaa,author.;
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Ghanaian Americans; Immigrant families; Doctoral students; Grief; Depressed persons;

An Italian wife / by Hood, Ann,1956-;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Family life; Immigrants; Italian American families; Italian Americans;

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