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In Oak Grove, California, 1976, there are as many Sikh temples as Christian churches, the city council prints announcements in both English and Punjabi and the large Indian immigrant community is gracefully coexists with the old farming families. But for 15-year-old Jeeto, figuring out where she fits best--and what she must do to find that fit--isn't so easy.
26) Chan is missing
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Criterion collection volume 1124
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A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for a missing...
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ASHE higher education report volume 32, no. 5
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Examines the complicated array of social, economic, cultural, and educational factors related to student success in college.
29) I'm new here
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Walk in the shoes of three elementary-school-aged immigrants as they learn how to balance becoming American with being Guatemalan, Korean, and Somalian as well!
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Jhumpa Lahiri took the literary world by storm when her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000. The collection was followed by her best-selling and critically acclaimed novel The Namesake - a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama. Presenting these works together here, this edition displays Lahiri's enormous talent as a storyteller.
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"Para Mariama, después de un largo viaje en automóvil, tren, barco y avión desde África, 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 integración y la solidaridad. ¿Preparados para conocer a Mariama y jugar con ella?"--
"Everything's new for Mariama after a long journey by car, train, boat, and plane from Africa. She's...
34) Who is my neighbor?: life experiences of immigrants and refugees ;dited by Warren and Margaret Roth
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Who is my neighbor? is a collection of interviews of People's Resource Center clients and volunteers. It was written to make other members of the PRC community and the general public aware of the hardships and successes that make up the lives of their neighbors who are immigrants and refugees.
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Television series about four aliens from another planet who pose as humans to study the locals but don't understand the culture at all. In this final season, Tommy goes to college, Sally becomes a weather girl, Harry bothers the Amish, Mary's rich sister proposes, Dick buys a timeshare, evil nemesis Dr. Liam Neesam returns, and The Big Giant Head issues a shocking final order.
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Follows four years of the lives of a group of contemporary immigrants as they journey to start new lives in America, including a couple from India in Silicon Valley, a Mexican meatpacker in rural Kansas, two families of Nigerian refugees, two baseball players from the Dominican Republic joining the L.A. Dodgers, and a newly-wed Palestinian woman in Chicago. The detailed portraits of these immigrants not only result in a kaleidoscope of immigrant life...
39) Dientes blancos
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Dos ex combatientes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial vuelven a encontrarse despues de treinta anos y comparten la dura relacion que llevan con sus hijos. Estos, que deberian llevar a cabo los proyectos fracasados de sus padres, se rebelan contra el racismo britanico, contra su propia clase social, incluso contra sus origenes, su historia y su barrio. Cada uno a su manera no escapa del propio destino.
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely...
40) Go home!
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Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry.
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