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4) Hot sur
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555 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"María Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopía. Pero el sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policía blanco, y condenada a prisión. Sin embargo, la vida de María Paz dará un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondrá a prueba todo su temple, está esperándola fuera de las rejas. Laura Restrepo nos atrapa...
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The beautiful story of diversity follows a young girl named Kanzi whose most treasured reminder of her old home provides a pathway for acceptance in her new one.
When her new classmates tease her, Kanzi finds comfort in wrapping up in a quilt from her teita and writing poetry.
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"Disembarking on Ellis Island, Francesca arrives on the shores of America with her sights set on a better life than the one she left in Italy. That same day, aspiring linguist Alma reports to her first day of work at the immigrant processing center. Ellis, though, is not the refuge it first appears thanks to President Roosevelt's attempts to deter crime. Francesca and Alma will have to rely on each other to escape its corruption and claim the American...
11) Honolulu
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360 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Honolulu" is the richly imagined story of Jin, a young "picture bride" who leaves her native Korea, and journeys to Hawaii in 1914 in search of a better life.
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306 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
14) An untamed land
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Red River of the North volume 1
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English
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Ingeborg and Roald Bjorklund leave Norway for the promise of free land and a good life in America. But little could they foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the virgin prairie. Will they survive the hardships of that first winter?
15) The newcomer
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1737. Anna and Bairn met during their crossing to start a new life in the raw Pennsylvania frontier. As Anna and her fellow church members seek out a new beginning, Bairn has yet to commit to the strict expectations of the Amish community. Will their shipboard romance survive unexpected turns-- and a newcomer to the church who is everything Bairn is not?
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92 pages ; 22 cm
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"Eight generations of Romo's have lived in the borderlands, and their experiences have found expression in these tightly conceived stories. In his latest book Romo, the master of Chicano noir, explores the daily lived realities of loners, wives, fathers, and families whose lives are greatly manipulated by the complexities of border violence and related issues"--
17) Moronga
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335 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Español
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"José Zeledón, hombre silencioso y huraño, vive atormentado por su violento pasado. Tras huir de El Salvador con una nueva identidad después de la guerra civil, ha logrado pasar desapercibido durante años en Estados Unidos. Ahora debe dejar atrás Texas y empezar de nuevo en Wisconsin, donde un antiguo compañero de la guerrilla le ha conseguido una habitación amueblada en la ciudad universitaria de Merlow City y un trabajo de conductor de autobús...
18) Miracle Creek
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355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A literary courtroom thriller about a mother accused of murdering her eight-year-old autistic son"--
In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment device known as the Miracle Submarine -- a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter for therapeutic 'dives' with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. When the Miracle Submarine mysteriously explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends...
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"The Chandaria family -- emigrants from the Indian-enclave of Nairobi -- have managed to flourish in America. Premchand, the father, is a doctor who has worked doggedly to grow his practice and give his family security; his wife, Urmila, runs a business importing artisanal Kenyan crafts; and their son, Sunil, after quitting the pre-med track, is enrolled in a PhD program in philosophy at Harvard. But the parents have kept a very important secret from...
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136 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Miguel Rivera is the new kid in town, a young Mexican living with his family near the border in Texas. It isn't bad enough that he has to deal with the class bully, Joey Jeter Cortés, and his mean substitute-teacher mother, he's also struggling with his family to find their place in a new world. One day, in Santa Fe, Miguel is chased by boys and takes refuge in the Palace of the Governors. There, among the old and dusty artifacts of the Kingdom of...
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