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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's difficult adjustment to life in the United States after leaving Cold War-era Russia, the birth of her daughter and arrival of her Soviet mother, and how three generations of women with different cultural values found balance and understanding together.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist follows a bright, sports-loving and musically talented Hispanic teenager as he juggles commitments to work, school and his unauthorized immigrant parents, while he applies to colleges and contemplates his future.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An inspirational memoir chronicling the life of Joseph Kim, who not only survived and escaped the devastating famine in North Korea as an abandoned young boy, but made it to the United States and is now thriving in college.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a gripping memoir, the author, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, a rare Hispanic woman in a sea of suits and ties hiding a secret, tells her personal story of separation, grief and ultimate redemption, changing the perception of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America's immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. Out of Many, One brings together forty-three full-color portraits of men and women who have immigrated to the United States, alongside stirring stories of the unique ways all of them are pursuing the American Dream. Featuring men and...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hereafter tells the story of Ellen O'Hara, a young woman emigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York, firstly as a domestic servant and later in her own boarding house-all the while financially supporting those at home. Vona Groarke builds this story from historical fact, drawing from various archives for evidence of her great-grandmother Ellen. However, she also...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Language
English
Description
The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates...
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