Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history...
Immigrants
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Author:Gatrell, PeterSummary: - Author:Carleson, J.C.Summary:
From a former CIA officer comes a riveting account of a royal Middle Eastern family exiled to the American suburbs THERE: In an unnamed country, fifteen-year-old Laila has always lived like royalty. Her father is a dictator of sorts,...
- Author:Scott, BarbaraSummary:
A family saga about Ukrainian immigrants in the early 20th century, the power of desire, Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena...
- Author:Braxton, LisaSummary:
It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This transformation has a...
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Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:This #ownvoices novel by bestselling author Nadia Hashimi tells the affecting story of an Afghan-American boy who believes his mother has been deported. For fans of Inside Out and Back Again and Counting by 7s. Jason has just learned...
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Author:Blackburn McBride, RobinSummary:The Shining Fragments is a family saga about the Irish in Canada that explores the ramifications of abandonment, obsession, love, memory, and visionary power. Spanning the years 1882-1904, it follows Joseph Conlon from his early...
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Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary: - Author:Sekaran, ShanthiSummary:
Before his grandmother Paati moved in with his family in Mariposa, life was good for Muki Krishnan. Paati's arrival coincides with big changes on the island: Mariposa's president divides citizens into Butterflies and Moths....
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: - Author:Shteyngart, GarySummary:
In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted...
- Author:DeKeyser, StacySummary:
A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents—and the rhino in the outfield—to become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot . Nick wants to change his life. For...
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Author:Boraks-Nemetz, LillianSummary:The Old Brown Suitcase, an award winning book that has sold extraordinarily well both nationally and internationally, now appears in a new edition by Ronsdale Press. The novel narrates the absorbing story of a young girl who survived...
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Author:Behrens, PeterSummary:The O'Briens follows the family from The Law of Dreams two generations later: Joe O'Brien is coming of age in a new century in remote Pontiac County, Quebec, with his brothers and sisters by his side. Their father has abandoned the...
- Author:McDermott, AliceSummary:
A magnificent new audiobook from one of America's finest writers-a powerfully affecting story spanning the twentieth century of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. On a dim...
- Author:Crawford, MarkSummary:
A Chinese medical student, a Jamaican Tim Horton's manager, an Indian father of three, and a 17-year-old Syrian refugee walk into a curling club. It's Monday night at a small-town rink and it's the first-ever Learn to Curl class for new...
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Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious set of knives, Fidelis sets out for America, getting as far as Argus, North Dakota, where he settles, building a business and a home for his family, which now includes Eva...
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Author:Curtis, Christopher PaulSummary:Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and...
- Author:MOORE, BrianSummary:
"No, for wasn't this the chance he had always wanted? Wasn't he at long last an adventurer, a man who had gambled all on one horse, a horse coloured Canada, which now by hook or by crook would carry him to fame and...
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Author:Selvon, SamuelSummary: -
Author:Summary:For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today, there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left...
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