T. Coraghessan Boyle weaves together the stories of two families in Southern California--one affluent, the other destitute. As Boyle creates a counterpoint of personal needs, civic responsibility, and social custom, each family's quest...
Illegal aliens
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Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of illegal immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out...
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Author:Ko, LisaSummary:One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one...
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Keita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home-- a brutal dictatorship that produces the world' s fastest marathoners-- to live as an illegal refugee in a wealthy western nation,...
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Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the waters of the nearby lake might increase...
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Author:Boochani, BehrouzSummary:Winner of Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish-Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison. Composed entirely by text...
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À la suite de l’immense succès d’Aminata, Lawrence Hill revient en force avec Le Sans-papiers. Identité, appartenance et exclusion sont des sujets au cœur de son univers romanesque. Avec Le Sans-papiers, il s’intéresse au sort des...
- Author:Bosc, Paul, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
L’arrivée de voisins d’origine vietnamienne intrigue Chanelle. Que peuvent-ils bien cacher dans le grenier? Que laisse entrevoir la lueur qui se dégage de leur lucarne? Se peut-il que Chanelle puisse se faire de nouveaux amis? Un regard...
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Author:Kaaberbøl, Lene, Friis, AgneteSummary:Red Cross nurse Nina Borg's life is at a turning point. Her husband, Morten, has pleaded with her not to get involved in any more dangerous projects with her network of volunteers who assist illegal immigrants and refugees. But when...
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A policewoman is left for dead in an alley, and when she recovers she points the finger at an El Salvadorian immigrant with gang ties. But all the evidence is pointing the other way. And as lawyer Scott Finn digs deeper, he finds a thin...
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Author:Brouwer, SigmundSummary:When David's family moves from northern Ontario to Miami, Florida, it takes him less than a day to discover how out of place he is in his new neighborhood. He joins his school's track team, hoping to make new friends, but soon he is...
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Author:Vargas, Jose AntonioSummary:In this young readers' adaptation of his memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the twelve million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. By...
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Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
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Author:McClintock, NorahSummary:Connie Suarez, downsized from her job as a legal secretary, is working as a maid. She's getting used to picking up after people and putting their lives in order. But she is not prepared for the mess that awaits her when she arrives at...
- Author:Wang, Qian JulieSummary:
An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. "Extraordinary - Consider this remarkable memoir a...
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Author:Alvarez, JuliaSummary:The author of In the Time of the Butterflies, with more than one million copies in print, is back with a tour de force. Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has...
