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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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A follow-up to Homegoing finds a sixth-year PhD candidate grappling with the childhood faith of the evangelical church in which she was raised while researching the science behind the suffering that has devastated her Ghanaian immigrant family.
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Language
English
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After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother could only dream of.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Earning just enough in America that they hope to reclaim the son they left behind in China, Patty and Liang Cheng find their fragile stability complicated by their daughter's sleepwalking activities, which expose complicated family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Captures a country in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear, and where the nation's unhealed wounds wreak havoc around the world. The author attempts to make sense of it all through the lens of a story about one family, from a heartland town in America to palatial suites in Central Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Hunkering down with her sister in her fancy house, along with her brother-in-law’s family, as Hurricane Harvey bears down on Houston, single mom Jia Shah and her 12-year-old son, Ishaan, finds tensions escalating along with the storm, resulting in murder.
10) Frontera
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Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he’s caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and Mateo is lost in the desert without a guide or water. With the odds stacked against him, his one chance at survival may be putting his trust in something, or rather someone,...
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