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Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak novels volume 4
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2018. | First edition. | Minotaur Books | 342 pages ; 25 cm | English |
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In the next book in Ausma Khan's powerful, critically acclaimed series, Muslim detective Esa Khattak and his partner, Rachel Getty, travel across Europe in search of an old friend, who's gone missing while working to help expedite immigration for Syrian refugees in Greece. The Syrian refugee crisis becomes personal for Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty when they are called in to search for a missing Canadian volunteer. Nathan Clare's...
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F VERDAN, N
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2018. | Bitter Lemon Press | 239 pages : 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F VERDAN, N |
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A severed head is found on the Greek border near a wall planned to stop Middle Eastern immigrants crossing from Turkey. Intelligence Agent Evangelos wants the truth about the murder, human trafficking into Greece, and about the corruption surrounding the wall's construction. It is a mystery novel and a political thriller but more importantly it evokes the problems of the West incarnated in Greece: isolationism, fear of immigration, economic collapse,...
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F GILLIGA, R
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2017. | First U.S. edition. | Tin House Books | 336 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F GILLIGA, R |
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"At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions...
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F KRASIKO, S
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[2017] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | xiii, 542 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F KRASIKO, S |
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When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow--and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on frequent visits to Moscow, and when he learns that Florence's...
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F MEISSNER, S
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | First Edition. | Berkley | 368 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F MEISSNER, S |
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"Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women--past and present--in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life. February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter of a French Resistance spy. Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European...
6) Gargoyle Hunters
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2017. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 338 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate"--
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Khourdi trilogy volume 3
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F KHADIVI, L
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2017. | Bloomsbury USA | 239 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Display Tower - 2nd floor 1 available F KHADIVI, L |
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"Laguna Beach, California, 2009. Alireza Courdee, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity, takes up surfing, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time, Reza--now Rez--feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to...
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F SATYAL, R
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2017. | First edition. | Picador | 384 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F SATYAL, R |
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"In a suburb outside Cleveland, a community of Indian Americans has settled into lives that straddle the divide between Eastern and Western cultures. For some, America is a bewildering and alienating place where coworkers can't pronounce your name but will eagerly repeat the Sanskrit phrases from their yoga class. Harit, a lonely Indian immigrant in his mid-forties, lives with his mother who can no longer function after the death of Harit's sister,...
10) One Good Thing About America
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11) Refuge: a novel
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F NAYERI, D
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | Riverhead Books | 322 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F NAYERI, D |
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An Iranian girl escapes to America as a child, but her father stays behind. Over twenty years, as she transforms from confused immigrant to overachieving Westerner to sophisticated European transplant, daughter and father know each other only from their visits: four crucial visits over two decades, each in a different international city. The longer they are apart, the more their lives diverge, but also the more each comes to need the other's wisdom...
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F HAVERLA, E
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[2017] | CreateSpace Independant Publishing Platform | 449 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F HAVERLA, E |
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In a bold response to what he was absolutely convinced was a call from God to become a pastor to the Swedish immigrants in America, Gustaf Berglund courageously sets out on an adventure he could not have imagined possible. Based on a true historical figure from the 1890's, this novel traces the journey of Berglund as he says goodbye to his beloved Sweden and sets sail for an unknown world beyond the horizon. His journey also proves to be a spiritual...
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F VERNA, H
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[2017] | Kensington Books | 344 pages ; 21 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F VERNA, H |
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In 1914, Andrew Houghton's family is one of hundreds eking out an existence in the coal mines of southwestern Pennsylvania. Though he longs to be a veterinarian, he's fated for a life underground, picking rock alongside his father. That destiny changes when his aunt, Eveline Kiser, arranges for her husband to secure Andrew an apprenticeship on the railroad. Wilhelm Kiser, a German immigrant, has found his American dream in Pittsburgh, with a well-paying...
14) A worthy heart
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F MASON, S
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[2016] | Bethany House, a divisioin of Baker Publishing Group | 392 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F MASON, S |
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Maggie Montgomery arrives in America from Ireland under the premise of visiting family, but really, she intends to stay in the Land of Opportunity, and soon she meets Adam, a black sheep whose past may come in the way of their love.
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F MCKINNE, D
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[2016] | First edition. | HarperCollins | 338 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available F MCKINNE, D |
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Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto's black live-in staff forge a strong social community, and when one of them receives permission to get married on the island the mood is one of celebration, particularly since the white staff--save the opium-addicted doctor--are given leave for the weekend. On the eve of the ceremony,...
16) The Fortunes
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F DAVIES, P
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 268 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
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"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 the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds...
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F MBUE, I
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[2016] | First edition. | Random House | 382 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2017] | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
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At the intersection of "Americanah" and "The Help" comes a riveting debut novel about two marriages - one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1% - both chasing their version of the American Dream. In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's son Neni is hired as household help....
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F CHANG, J
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2016. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 354 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
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CD-F CHA
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℗2016 | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 12 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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Charles Wang is mad at America. A brash, lovable immigrant businessman who built a cosmetics empire and made a fortune, he's just been ruined by the financial crisis. Now all Charles wants is to get his kids safely stowed away so that he can go to China and attempt to reclaim his family's ancestral lands--and his pride. Charles pulls Andrew, his aspiring comedian son, and Grace, his style-obsessed daughter, out of schools he can no longer afford....
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Jimmy Vega novels volume 2
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Round Rock Public Library - Adult (2nd floor) 1 available
M CHAZIN, S
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2015. | First Kensington hardcover edition. | Kensington Books | 360 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
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"Latino police detective Jimmy Vega must strike a precarious balance between the local immigrant community and his hometown's most powerful and privileged citizens during a dangerous murder investigation"--Dust jacket flap.
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F HENRIQU, C
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2014. | First Edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 285 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
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2014 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2014 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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LP HENRIQU, C
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2014. | Thorndike Press | 407 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
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Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.