#hardcover #fiction #historical #Sikh #California #RishiReddi #Mexico #immigrants 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

Passage West

Maryland

A Memoir

The author describes his coming of age as a teacher, storyteller, and writer, a personal journey during which he spent fifteen years finding his voice in the classroom, and came to terms with the undervalued importance of teaching.

Teacher Man

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#hardcover #immigrants #history #biography #america #americanhistory #illustrated #firstedition #nonfiction #hamilton 

North Carolina

A gorgeously illustrated collection featuring inspiring immigrants from every country in the world, celebrating the incredible range of what it means to be an American

This dazzling volume brings American immigrant stories to life in short biographies written by award-winning writer Sara Nović, with charming full-color illustrations by Alison Kolesar. At a time when public debate is focused on who belongs in America, this book honors the crucial contributions of our friends and neighbors who have chosen to make this country their home.
 
Featured within are war heroes and fashion designers, Supreme Court justices and pop stars, athletes and civil rights leaders, as well as:
* the doctors who saved Ronald Reagan's life
* the creators of iconic American products like Levi's, Chevy cars and trucks, and Nathan's Famous hot dogs
* the scientists who contributed to the Manhattan Project
* the architects behind landmarks of the American skyline like the World Financial Center in New York City, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and the Sears Tower in Chicago
* Plus these familiar names from every walk of life:
 
Madeleine Albright * Isabel Allende * Mario Andretti * Desi Arnaz * Isaac Asimov * George Balanchine * Sergey Brin * Gisele Bündchen * Willem de Kooning * Oscar de la Renta * Marlene Dietrich * Albert Einstein * Alfred Hitchcock * Arianna Huffington * Enrique Iglesias * Iman * Grace Jones * Henry Kissinger * Mila Kunis * Hedy Lamarr * Yo-Yo Ma * Miriam Makeba * Pedro Martínez * Joni Mitchell * Sidney Poitier * Wolfgang Puck * Rihanna * Knute Rockne * M. Night Shyamalan * Gene Simmons * Nikola Tesla * the von Trapps * Elie Wiesel * Anna Wintour

America Is Immigrants

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This is an advanced readers copy. #paperback #refugee #immigrants #netherlands #Dutch #translation #iraq #europe #fiction #humor 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Two Blankets, Three Sheets

Hardcover book in excellent condition with the exception of a tear and a ripple on the front jacket cover. #Ireland #￼famine #emigrants #Irish #Wexford #Iowa #immigrants #history

The Irish Exodus to America

A splendid book, written in a fresh and accessible way, which will grip anyone with the most superficial interest in the Famine years. -- Irish TimesBetween 1846 and 1851, more than one-million people-the potato famine emigrants-sailed from Ireland to America. Now, 150 years later, The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves, among them the child Henry Ford and the twenty-six-year-old Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy. Edward Laxton conducted five years of research in Ireland and interviewed the emigrants' descendents in the U.S. Portraits of people, ships, and towns, as well as facsimile passenger lists and tickets, are among the fascinating memorabilia in The Famine Ships.A useful and attractive introduction to one of the truly portentious events of modern history. -- Charles R. Morris, Los Angeles TimesFascinating...finally draws attention to the people and the ships that defined a moment in Irish and American history. -- Library Journal

The Famine Ships

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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

Digging to America

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#hardcover #fiction #india #immigrants #lgbtq #romance #lgbt #queer

Michigan

A Novel

From the author of the prize-winning collection Quarantine, an insightful, compelling debut novel set in rural America and India in the 1980s and ’90s, part coming-of-age story about a gay Indian American boy, part family saga about an immigrant family’s struggles to find a sense of belonging, identity, and hope. In a rural community in Western New York, twelve-year-old Kiran Shah, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, longingly observes his prototypically American neighbors, the Bells. He attends school with Kelly Bell, but he’s powerfully drawn—in a way he does not yet understand—to her charismatic father, Chris. Kiran’s yearnings echo his parents’ bewilderment as they try to adjust to a new world. His father, Nishit Shah, a successful doctor, is haunted by thoughts of the brother he left behind. His mother, Shanti, struggles to accept a life with a man she did not choose—her marriage to Nishit was arranged—and her growing attachment to an American man. Kiran is close to his older sister, Preeti—until an unexpected threat and an unfathomable betrayal drive a wedge between them that will reverberate through their lives. As he leaves childhood behind, Kiran finds himself perpetually on the outside—as an Indian American torn between two cultures and as a gay man in a homophobic society. In the wake of an emotional breakdown, he travels to India, where he forms an intense bond with a teenage hijra, a member of India’s ancient transgender community. With her help, Kiran begins to pull together the pieces of his broken past. Sweeping and emotionally complex, No Other World is a haunting meditation on love, belonging, and forgiveness that explores the line between our responsibilities to our families and to ourselves, the difficult choices we make, and the painful cost of claiming our true selves.

No Other World

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#hardcover #americandream #family #immigrants #cameroon #fiction #fast-paced #nyc 

South Carolina

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Behold the Dreamers

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

From Thomas Steinbeck, son of novelist John Steinbeck, comes a thrilling story of a group of Chinese immigrants in turn of the century California.

In the Shadow of the Cypress

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#hardcover #indianimmigrants #bestseller #fiction #immigrants #indian #jhumpalahiri 

An incisive portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life, in a debut novel that spans three decades, two continents, and two generations. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies. 150,000 first printing.

The Namesake

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#fiction #family #relationships #hardcover #betsycarter #immigrants #bookstagram #booktok

From the bestselling author of We Were Strangers Once, a quirky, charming, and darkly comic historical novel set in the 1950s about three generations of women whose lives are changed when a mysterious stranger comes to town--for fans of Fannie Flagg and Edward Kelsey Moore. As a young woman, Geraldine Wingo was a fiery beauty, turning heads in her small upstate New York town where she and her husband, Earle, run a popular bakery. All that changed, however, once she became pregnant with Emilia Mae, a difficult baby Geraldine is convinced is marked by the devil's tongue. Emilia Mae spends her life seeking and losing love in all the wrong places, so she never expects it to come sailing into town one day on a breeze when she's a thirty-three-year-old single mother. But Dillard Fox is no ordinary stranger--Emilia Mae and her daughter, Alice, are immediately drawn to his quiet friendliness, the brown tweed cap he never removes, his slow North Carolina drawl, and his talent for music. There's no question he's hiding a mysterious past, but will that stop them from building a new family together? Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn is a love story about creating a family where there was none, and about the enduring power of the human spirit. It is about impossible love and building a self when you start out empty. With all the charm and brightness and wisdom that Carter is known for, Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn is an unforgettable, magical new book from a beloved author.

Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn

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#WillaCather #Nebraska #prairie #fronier #wildwest #homesteafing #immigrants #comingofage #1800s

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A New York lawyer remembers his boyhood in Nebraska and his friendship with a pioneer Bohemian girl.

My Antonia

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#GreekAmericans #historicalfiction #bestseller #oprahsbookclub #pulitzerprize #familysaga #immigrants #Detroit #Greek #jeffreyeugenides

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Middlesex

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#hardcover #immigrants #familydrama Dust jacket has a tear at the spine but book is good. 

Florida

This bighearted, utterly charming novel explores immigrant experience and family life with humor and compassion (Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You).

No One Can Pronounce My Name

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#hardcover #nonfiction #afghanistan #immigrants #fiction #journalism #refugees 

An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

"The Naked Don't Fear the Water is a riveting and heartrending look at the hidden world of refugees that challenged everything I thought I knew about the consequences of war and globalization. It's the most important work on the global refugee crisis to date, and a crucial document of these tumultuous times. It will go down as one of the great works of nonfiction literature of our generation."--Anand Gopal, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist No Good Men Among the Living In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the smuggler's road to Europe, accompanying his friend, an Afghan refugee, in search of a better future. In 2016, a young Afghan driver and translator named Omar makes the heart-wrenching choice to flee his war-torn country, saying goodbye to Laila, the love of his life, without knowing when they might be reunited again. He is one of millions of refugees who leave their homes that year. Matthieu Aikins, a journalist living in Kabul, decides to follow his friend. In order to do so, he must leave his own passport and identity behind to go underground on the refugee trail with Omar. Their odyssey across land and sea from Afghanistan to Europe brings them face to face with the people at heart of the migration crisis: smugglers, cops, activists, and the men, women and children fleeing war in search of a better life. As setbacks and dangers mount for the two friends, Matthieu is also drawn into the escape plans of Omar's entire family, including Maryam, the matriarch who has fought ferociously for her children's survival. Harrowing yet hopeful, this exceptional work brings into sharp focus one of the most contentious issues of our times. The Naked Don't Fear the Water is a tale of love and friendship across borders, and an inquiry into our shared journey in a divided world.

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

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#paperback #comingofage #India #Immigrants #friendship #identity #love #family

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

North Dakota

The Golden Son

A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Ellen Marie Wiseman, acclaimed author of What She Left Behind and The Life She Was Given, weaves the stories of two very different women into a page-turning novel as suspenseful as it is poignant, set amid one of history's deadliest pandemics. In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia's overcrowded streets and slums, and from the anti-German sentiment that compelled her father to enlist in the U.S. Army, hoping to prove his loyalty. But an even more urgent threat has arrived. Spanish influenza is spreading through the city. Soon, dead and dying are everywhere. With no food at home, Pia must venture out in search of supplies, leaving her infant twin brothers alone . . . Since her baby died days ago, Bernice Groves has been lost in grief and bitterness. If doctors hadn't been so busy tending to hordes of immigrants, perhaps they could have saved her son. When Bernice sees Pia leaving her tenement across the way, she is buoyed by a shocking, life-altering decision that leads her on a sinister mission: to transform the city's orphans and immigrant children into what she feels are "true Americans." As Pia navigates the city's somber neighborhoods, she cannot know that her brothers won't be home when she returns. And it will be a long and arduous journey to learn what happened--even as Bernice plots to keep the truth hidden at any cost. Only with persistence, and the courage to face her own shame and fear, will Pia put the pieces together and find the strength to risk everything to see justice at last.

The Orphan Collector

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#paperback #fiction #juvenile #immigrants #Hispanic 

New Mexico

Journey of the Sparrows 

Illinois

#hardcover #indianimmigrants #bestseller #fiction #immigrants #indian #jhumpalahiri #goodname #college #calcutta

New York

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Connecticut

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

NATIONAL BEST SELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
 
"A brilliant and stirring epic . . . Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath; she humanizes history, giving it emotional and psychological depth."--John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times *USA Today * O: The Oprah Magazine * Publishers Weekly * Salon * Newsday *The Daily Beast
 
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
 
With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.

Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an "unrecognized immigration" within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker * The Washington Post * The Economist * Boston Globe * San Francisco Chronicle * Chicago Tribune * Entertainment Weekly * Philadelphia Inquirer * The Guardian * The Seattle Times * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * The Christian Science Monitor 

The Warmth of Other Suns

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California

Five vintage books. Select the titles you may be interested in (feel free to combine with books from my other vintage bundles) and message me. I will then create your listing. If you select 2 or more, I will deduct $1 from the price. “THE BIG X” - $8. 1959. First edition, first printing (as designated by code C-I by publisher). No writing, no owner name, tanned pages. DJ intact with wear and missing pieces. “SEVEN CAME THROUGH” -$8.1943. First edition. Memoir of WWI flying ace; he and 6 comrades spent 21 days in rafts after he had to ditch his plane into the Pacific in 1942, WWII. No writing, some B&W photos. Edge wear and fading to DJ with small tears and small pieces missing. “BELGIUM WAS MY HOME” - $6. 1944, AUTOGRAPHED. Pioneer life of a Belgian immigrant in the US. No DJ, sunned spine. Under autograph, someone penciled: mother of Mrs Joseph Nall. “HISTORIC HOUSES OF NEW JERSEY” - $3. 1977. Softcover with Clean pages, no writing. Edge wear, crease and 1” chip on cover. “APOSTLE OF SIGHT” - $2. 1980. Story of Dr Victor Rambo, surgeon to India’s blind. Clean pages with some spine separation and corner clipped on FFEP. Tears, fading and edge wear to DJ. #history #vintage #scifi #firstedition #autographed #collectible #Belgium #WWII #hardcover #immigrants (Shelf 8F)

Rushing Reddi

Passage West

Frank McCourt

Teacher Man

Sara Novic; Alison Kolesar (Illustrator)

America Is Immigrants

Rodaan Al Galidi

Two Blankets, Three Sheets

Edward Laxton; Laxton Edward

The Famine Ships

Anne Tyler

Digging to America

Rahul Mehta

No Other World

Imbolo Mbue

Behold the Dreamers

Thomas Steinbeck

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Betsy Carter

Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn

Willa Cather

My Antonia

Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

Rakesh Satyal

No One Can Pronounce My Name

Matthieu Aikins

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The Golden Son

Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Orphan Collector

Fran Leeper Buss

Journey of the Sparrows

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

The Namesake

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

Matthieu Aikins

The Naked Don't Fear the Water

Various

Create Your Own Vintage BUNDLE

Upton Sinclair; George Stade (Consultant Editor); Maura Spiegel (Introduction by, Intro and Notes by)

The Jungle