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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Four extra-terrestrials suddenly materialize in the college town of Rutherford, Ohio. Disguised as humans, they name themselves the Solomons. On the surface, this family functions as normal as possible, but underneath they are out of sync with every person on the planet. Their mission from The Big Giant Head is to study this confusing planet and its confounding inhabitants while trying to gain acceptance on Earth. The complete, uncut original broadcast...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A group of aliens have come to Earth to learn about its population, customs, etc. To avoid detection, they have taken on human form, which gives them human emotions, physical needs, etc. However, they don't understand how human emotions work.
4) The namesake
Author
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from "a writer of uncommon elegance and poise." (The New York Times)
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they...
Author
Language
English
Description
Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Generic Asian man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but he is always relegated to a prop. Yet every day he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being...
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Para Mariama, despu©♭s de un largo viaje en autom©đvil, tren, barco y avi©đn desde ©frica, todo es nuevo. Va a descubrir un mundo donde las calles, la escuela y la comida son diferentes, pero ℗y las personas? Una bella historia sobre la identidad, el proceso de integraci©đn y la solidaridad. ℗Preparados para conocer a Mariama y jugar con ella?"--Provided by publisher.
9) I'm new here
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Three children from other countries (Somalia, Guatemala, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, and nonpartisan. Immigration is one of the most controversial topics in the United States and everywhere else. Pundits, politicians, and the public usually depict immigrants as either villains or victims. The villain narrative is that immigrants pose a threat--to our economy because they steal our jobs; our way of life because they change our culture; and to our safety and laws because of...
11) The fortunes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores a century of American history through the lives of Chinese Americans, using the lives of four individuals to depict how an immigrant community survives and ultimately becomes American in the process.
"From the best-selling, acclaimed author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel recasting American history through the lives of Chinese Americans. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, Tell It Slant reimagines...