T. Coraghessan Boyle weaves together the stories of two families in Southern California--one affluent, the other destitute. As Boyle creates a counterpoint of personal needs, civic responsibility, and social custom, each family's...
Illegal aliens
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Author:Boyle, T. CoraghessanSummary: - Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of illegal immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out...
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Author:Ko, LisaSummary:One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Keita Ali has nothing: no bank account, no papers, no legal identity. A runner, he has fled home-- a brutal dictatorship that produces the world' s fastest marathoners-- to live as an illegal refugee in a wealthy western nation,...
- Author:Grippando, JamesSummary:
Miami attorney Jack Swyteck lands in the heart of the contentious immigration debate when he takes on the heart-wrenching case of an undocumented immigrant who fled to America to protect her daughter and save herself.
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Author:Bergen, DavidSummary:Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas. She tends to the rich northern women who visit the clinic hoping that the waters of the nearby lake might increase...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
À la suite de l’immense succès d’Aminata, Lawrence Hill revient en force avec Le Sans-papiers. Identité, appartenance et exclusion sont des sujets au cœur de son univers romanesque. Avec Le Sans-papiers, il s’intéresse au sort des...
- Author:Bosc, Paul, Dupas, Philippe, Therrien, JoanneSummary:
L’arrivée de voisins d’origine vietnamienne intrigue Chanelle. Que peuvent-ils bien cacher dans le grenier? Que laisse entrevoir la lueur qui se dégage de leur lucarne? Se peut-il que Chanelle puisse se faire de nouveaux amis? Un regard...
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Author:Kaaberbøl, Lene, Friis, AgneteSummary:Red Cross nurse Nina Borg's life is at a turning point. Her husband, Morten, has pleaded with her not to get involved in any more dangerous projects with her network of volunteers who assist illegal immigrants and refugees. But when...
- Author:Vargas, Jose AntonioSummary:
In this young readers' adaptation of his memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the twelve million undocumented immigrants currently in the United...
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Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
