Baba had made Lesia a promise: just remember the flower is not always open, but if your effort is true, your rewards will be sweet. Fifteen-year-old Lesia treasures those words as she and her family leave Baba in their Ukrainian...
Immigrants
- Author:Langston, LauraSummary:
- Author:Bayegnak, Guy ArmelSummary:
Le plancher se dérobe est l’histoire d’Awa, avocate de formation, récemment immigrée au Canada, qui prend conscience de ce que son appartenance à ce nouvel environnement est loin d’être une évidence. Elle se trouve confrontée à ses...
- Author:Marineau, MichèleSummary:
Ainsi commence l'histoire de Karim, une histoire à plusieurs voix et à multiples facettes, qui va de Beyrouth à Montréal en passant par Chlifa, ce village par-delà les montagnes que tentent d'atteindre Karim et Maha, là-bas, au Liban....
- Author:Trigiani, AdrianaSummary:
En 1905, dans les Alpes italiennes, Enza et Ciro, deux enfants de la montagne, se rencontrent pour la première fois et sentent que leurs avenirs sont irrémédiablement liés. Ciro, pour avoir été témoin du comportement scandaleux du...
- Author:Victor, DivyaSummary:
kith [noun] one's friends, acquaintances, neighbours, or relations.In Kith, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'kith'...
- Author:Peterson, JanSummary:
When the Hudson's Bay Company decided to establish its new Pacific coast headquarters at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island in 1843, the Island was a pristine paradise—or an isolated wilderness, depending on one's point of view—that had...
- Author:McGugan, JimSummary:
Depicts the immigrant child's struggle to begin again in a strange land.
- Author:Whyte, JackSummary:
Best known for his original series of Arthurian novels, A Dream of Eagles (called The Camulod Chronicles in the US), and his Knights Templar trilogy, Jack Whyte has authored 10 international bestsellers in the past 15 years. Jack's...
- Author:Diaz, JunotSummary:
From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a...
- Author:Lai, ThanhhaSummary:
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
- Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Bezmozgis, DavidSummary:
"In these deeply-felt, slyly humorous stories, David Bezmozgis pleads no special causes but presents immigrant characters with all their contradictions and complexities, their earnest and divided hearts."--Provided by publisher.
- Author:Dubus, AndreSummary:
Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to...
- Author:Mootoo, ShaniSummary:
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Guanagaspar around the time of the Second World War, and in modern-day Vancouver, He Drown She in the Sea, fulfills the promise of Shani Mootoo’s internationally acclaimed debut novel, ...
- Author:Michener, James A.Summary:
The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish...
- Author:Nfon, CharlesSummary:
Albert’s life dream is to immigrate to the U.S.A., to seek greener pastures. After several failed attempts, he finally gets a visa. Then he arrives the U.S.A. hoping for a bright and easy future. Before long he hears stories of...
- Author:Oberle, FrankSummary:
- Author:Bassler, Gerhard P.Summary:
Beggars cannot be choosers. We wanted just companies, we gave a damn who they were, we had no prejudice against them. We went to Germany because Europe was scared of Soviet Russia and saw a communist revolution coming. The German...
- Author:Charnes, LanceSummary:
Jake Eldar’s and Miriam Schaffer’s names may kill them. Jake manages a bookstore in Brooklyn. Miriam is a secretary at a Philadelphia law firm. Both grew up in Israel and emigrated to build new lives in America. Neither knows the other...
- Author:AviSummary:
In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.