Baljeet Basra, Celina
Summary: In a rural village of Punjab, India, a moony young man crouches over his phone in a rapeseed field near his family’s cabbage farm. His name is Happy Singh Soni, and he’s watching YouTube clips of his favorite film, Bande à Part by Jean-Luc Godard. In fact, Happy is often compared to a young Sami Frey by the imaginary journalists that keep him company while he uses the outhouse. Pooing, as he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BALAli, Samina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALIStork, Francisco X.
Summary: Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STODivakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Summary: After years of living separate lives, Anju and Sudha rekindle their friendship in America, and the love they feel for one another provides the support each of them needs to adjust to their new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIVWiesel, Elie
Summary: Sixty year-old Doriel Waldman, a Polish Jew born in 1936, is on the verge of insanity until Dr. Thérèse Goldschmidt draws him out with his story of surviving the Holocaust in hiding with his father while his mother made a reputation for herself in the Polish resistance--only to die in an accident shortly after the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2005
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Summary: Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENSchine, Cathleen
Summary: Julian Künstler comes from New York City to L.A. like many a lost twenty-something: to find a job writing in the entertainment industry. But this is 2020 and his temporary visit turns into an extended stay, trapped by the lockdown in a little house in Venice with his glamorous, eccentric, and ancient grandmother. Ninety-three-years old, Mamie came to Los Angeles from Vienna at eleven with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHNair, Kamala.
Summary: When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDShukairy, Ream
Summary: Khadija Shami is a Syrian American high school senior raised on boxing and football. Saddled with a monstrous ego and a fierce mother to test it, she dreams of escaping her sheltered life to travel the world with her best friend. Leene Tahir is a Syrian refugee, doing her best to adjust to the wildly unfamiliar society of a suburban Detroit high school while battling panic attacks and family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2004
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Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUMVijay, Madhuri
Summary: "Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay's The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. In the wake of her mother's death, Kalyani, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VIJByers, Michael.
Summary: Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYEZeineddine, Ghassan
Summary: "Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan. In ten tragicomic stories, Zeineddine explores themes of identity, generational conflicts, war trauma, migration, sexuality, queerness, home and belonging, and more. In Dearborn, a father teaches his son how to cheat the IRS and hide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TYLCanin, Ethan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CANTyler, Anne.
Summary: 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 Yazdans (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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TylHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWMcCann, Colum
Summary: A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCAkbar, Kaveh
Summary: Cyrus Sham's is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC AKBLalami, Laila
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LALToibin, Colm
Summary: Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Toibin's sixth novel is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009