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1882) Year of the fish
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Wide-eyed Ye Xian, a servant at a massage parlor, falls for a musician and transcends her oppressive reality with a magic koi.
1883) Illegal aliens
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Examines the history of undocumented immigration to the United States, the hardships endured by illegal aliens, their motives in immigrating, and current efforts to control this situation.
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From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
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TENACIDAD es la historia de inmigración del autor José Rolando Villarreal, Doctor en Jurisprudencia, que refleja la historia de la vida de muchos inmigrantes que vienen a los Estados Unidos de América buscando el sueño americano. Historias de las vidas de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos son básicamente las de individuos que vinieron o fueron tr.
1889) Las tierras arrasadas
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"Epitafio y Estela son miembros de una organización criminal dedicada al tráfico de personas, cuyas víctimas son, en su gran mayoría, migrantes centroamericanos que en su afán de alcanzar mejores condiciones de vida en Estados Unidos ingresan a territorio mexicano sin imaginar que ahí se toparán con una aduana infernal marcada por la violencia, el odio y los intereses más mezquinos. La historia de amor latente entre ambos protagonistas parece...
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Sin City: Welcome to Sin City, the town that beckons to the tough, the corrupt, and the brokenhearted. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still try to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care. See Frank Miller's graphic novels come to life. Contains both the theatrical release and the unrated extended cut version.
No country for old men: When a man stumbles on a bloody crime scene, a pickup truck loaded with heroin, and two million...
1891) Blue jasmine
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When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
1892) She was his angel
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"Power-hungry CEO of Our House of Pot, Jorge Hernandez holds tight to his ruthless ways in the 8th book in the Hernandez series when he decides to take down the pharmaceutical industry in one powerful swoop. The man once known as the Mexican cartel leader El Diablo isn't satisfied controlling the monopoly in the Canadian marijuana industry but wants to make Big Pharma squirm under his thumb. Using his political influence to cripple his nemesis while...
1893) Washes, prays
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"Coocoo is a young immigrant woman in Toronto. After years of bargaining with God to end her loneliness and receiving no answer, her faith is already worn threadbare when she meets her mirror-image; Muhammad is a professor and father of two. He's also married. Heartbreaking and hilarious, this verse-novel chronicles Coocoo's spiraling descent: the transformation of her love into something at first desperate and obsessive, then finally cringing and...
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"Describes the diverse peoples who came to the United States from 1820, when records began to be kept, to 1924, when the gates were nearly closed to immigrants. The reactions of Americans to the new arrivals, laws that were passed, and the experiences of the immigrants themselves are covered through the use of primary sources"--Provided by publisher.
1895) The immigrant experience
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Discusses the vast influx of immigrants to North America beginning almost 10,000 years ago.
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Contributors: Hanif Abdurraqib -- Kaveh Akbar -- María Isabel Alvarez -- Eloisa Amezcua -- Nin Andrews -- William Archila -- Fatimah Asghar -- Chaun Ballard -- Zeina Hashem Beck -- Bruce Bennett -- Rosebud Ben-Oni -- Brian Brodeur -- Joel Brouwer -- Nickole Brown -- Tina Cane -- Cortney Lamar Charleston -- Jim Daniels -- Kyle Dargan -- Danielle Cadena Deulen -- Natalie Diaz -- Dante Di Stefano -- celeste doaks -- Martín Espada -- Joshua Jennifer...
1897) Separated by the border: a birth mother, a foster mother, and a migrant child's 3,000-mile journey
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"Gena Thomas tells the story of five-year-old Julia, whose harrowing journey with her mother from Honduras to the United States took her from cargo trailer to detention center to foster care. Weaving together the stories of birth mother and foster mother, this book shows the human face of the immigrant and refugee, the challenges of the immigration and foster care systems, and the tenacious power of motherly love"--
1899) Flight season
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Vivi, a college student attempting to complete an internship, TJ, a nursing student, and Ángel, a patient with heart disease, all find their lives intersecting at a university hospital during one summer that could change their lives forever.