Emigration and immigration

  • Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat

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    When young Hao Tran left Vietnam in 1974 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of

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    • Author: Tran, Hao C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 220
    • Publish Date: June 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1945955422
    • Language: English
  • Manuelito (Spanish Edition)

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    Thirteen-year-old Manuelito is a gentle boy who lives with his family in a tiny village in the Guatemalan countryside. But life is far from idyllic: PACs–armed civil patrol–are a constant presence i

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    • Author: Amado, Elisa
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 09 2019
    • ISBN10: 1773212710
    • Language: Spanish
  • Molyvos: A Greek Village’s Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis

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    Molyvos, a small seaside village once home to fishermen and shepherds but now a popular summer vacation destination, sits on the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesvos along a four-mile-wide str… [more below]

    • Author: Webb, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: October 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1640125701
    • Language: English
  • The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert: A Memoir

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    A remarkable and inspiring true story that “stuns with raw beauty” about one woman’s resilience, her courageous journey to America, and her family’s lost way of life.

    Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Lite

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    • Author: Salh, Shugri Said
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 19 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643752561
    • Language: English
  • Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

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    This critical biography of Winston Churchill is “a powerful corrective” as it shines a light on the real history and war crimes of ‘Britain’s greatest leader’ (Independent).

    The subject of numerous b

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    • Author: Ali, Tariq
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1788735803
    • Language: English
  • The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel

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    They went to Cairo, leaving behind the adobe houses built along the edge of the Nile and the villagers who all knew each other and who had lived on this land for more centuries than their names could [more below]

    • Author: Kaldas, Pauline
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 230
    • Publish Date: September 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1682262359
    • Language: English
  • A Place Called Winter

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    “Patrick Gale has written a book which manages to be both tender and epic, and carries the unmistakable tang of a true story. I loved it.” — Jojo Moyes

    A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy,

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    • Author: Gale, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: March 22 2016
    • ISBN10: 1455594083
    • Language: English
  • The Suitcase

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    Sergei Dovlatov’s subtle, dark-edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects–the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from th… [more below]

    • Author: Dovlatov, Sergei
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: April 01 2011
    • ISBN10: 1582437335
    • Language: English
  • 2 A.M. in Little America

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    An Esquire “Best Book of Spring 2022”
    A San Francisco Chronicle “Most Anticipated Novel of 2022”
    A Literary Hub “Most Anticipated Book of 2022”


    From “an important writer in every sense” (David Foster Wal

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    • Author: Kalfus, Ken
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: September 13 2022
    • ISBN10: 1639550771
    • Language: English
  • Back to Blood

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    A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.

    As a police launch speeds across Miami’s Biscayne Bay — with officer Nestor Camacho on board — To

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    • Author: Wolfe, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 720
    • Publish Date: July 02 2013
    • ISBN10: 0316036331
    • Language: English
  • At the Edge of the Woods

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    “Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision…Ono continues to captivate.” –Bryan Washington, author of Memorial

    In an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling in

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    • Author: Ono, Masatsugu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: April 12 2022
    • ISBN10: 1949641287
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Fell From the Sky

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    In 1970, a sniper’s bullet shocks the sleepy Cape Cod village of Osterville. David Gomes, a young reporter for the Cape & Islands Gazette covers the story, thinking his reporting might lead to a job w

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    • Author: Fletcher, Bill, Jr.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 350
    • Publish Date: October 01 2018
    • ISBN10: 0999135848
    • Language: English
  • Un Fantasma En Hialeah Gardens / A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

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    Un refrescante y original giro postcolonial a Un cuento de Navidad, de Charles Dickens, por el galardonado autor Ra?l Palma. Situada en Miami, la multi?tnica y multicultural ciudad natal de Ra?l, la n[more below]

    • Author: Palma, Raul
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644737523
    • Language: Spanish
  • The Keeping Quilt: The Original Classic Edition

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    American Booksellers Association Pick of the Lists
    Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Book Award
    Carnegie Medal Honor Book

    Now available again in its original classic edition in hardcover,

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    • Series: Aladdin Picture Books
    • Author: Polacco, Patricia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: February 20 2024
    • ISBN10: 1665948043
    • Language: English
  • Where Wildflowers Grow

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    A beautifully moving picture book that reminds us that wherever we move–across the sea or across the neighborhood–we can always keep growing . . . just like wildflowers.

    After being uprooted from th

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    • Author: Dinh, Hà
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: June 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593578600
    • Language: English
  • My Name Is Yoon

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    Getting to feel at home in a new country

    Yoon’s name means “shining wisdom,” and when she writes it in Korean, it looks happy, like dancing figures. But her father tells her that she must learn to wri

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    • Author: Recorvits, Helen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: June 10 2014
    • ISBN10: 1250057116
    • Language: English
  • Memoirs of a Polar Bear

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    The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”–Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mo

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    • Author: Tawada, Yoko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: November 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 081122578X
    • Language: English
  • The Journey

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    “. . . a wonderful teaching tool for those who are welcoming refugees into their community.”–The New York Times

    With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book ex

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    • Author: Sanna, Francesca
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 48
    • Publish Date: September 13 2016
    • ISBN10: 1909263990
    • Language: English
  • La Guardiana de la Libreta: Una Historia de Bondad Desde La Frontera

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    Una edici?n en espa?ol de LA GUARDIANA DE LA LIBRETA, la historia inspiradora de una mam? y su hija que han sido negadas entrada en la frontera estadounidense y tienen que conseguir una refugiada a ca[more below]

    • Author: Brise?o, Stephen
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 40
    • Publish Date: June 28 2022
    • ISBN10: 593486463
    • Language: Spanish
  • Our World Is a Family: Our Community Can Change the World

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    Learn how to welcome new neighbors into your community, particularly when they might be far from home, in this uplifting and diverse picture book that champions human connection and inclusivity. After

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    • Author: Whitehill, Miry
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: March 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1728231833
    • Language: English
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