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1) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The publishers of Chris Cleave's new novel "don't want to spoil" the story by revealing too much about it, and there's good reason not to tell too much about the plot's pivot point. All you should know going in to Little Bee is that what happens on the beach is brutal, and that it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple--journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with...
2) The arrival
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2007
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.
Author
Publisher
Sphinx Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 210 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inmigracion y Ciudadania en los EE.UU. Preguntas y Respuestas is an up-to-date introduction to immigration law presented in an easily accessible question-and-answer format. It helps immigrants understand their rights and learn when to seek legal assistance. Beginning with an overview of the U.S. immigration laws and the USCIS regulations as they relate to employment-based petitions and family-based petitions, this book continues answering a wide range...
Author
Publisher
Sphinx Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xii, 356 p. : forms ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Spanish translation of U.S. Immigration Step by Step reflects the vast changes that have been made within the immigration system since the inception of the Department of Homeland Security. This new edition addresses not only the changes within the organizational structure, but also system changes that affect category preference and visa time limits."
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled by the antics of the licentious Lord Berrybender.
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 285 p. : ill. ; 25 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Immigration has become one of the most important and contentious issues of our time. But even as policy makers in the United States and Mexico argue over what to do about the half million or more Mexicans who cross the border illegally each year to work in the United States, one fact has become indisputable. Illegal immigration has enhanced the lives of poor people more than any policy attempted by either the U.S. or the Mexican governments. Immigrants...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The heart of the story is the evolving relationship between Tasmin Berrybender and her enigmatic, primitive husband, Jim Snow. Both have changed. Tasmin has learned to cope with the physical demands of a nomadic life and the emotional demands and trauma of motherhood and death. Jim, still capable of savage violence, seems more tender and vulnerable here. As they and their familiar entourage journey eastward from Santa Fe, they encounter various historical...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
Author
Series
Molly Murphy volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Molly Murphy escapes the typhoid epidemic in New York City in 1902 by going undercover as a cousin of Senator Barney Flynn in his house above the Hudson River. Flynn's wife still mourns the kidnapping and death of their son, and she has turned to spiritualists for solace. Molly, while investigating the spiritualist sisters, also tries to untangle the web around the kidnapping.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Estados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de indocumentados, pero también hay una esperanza: la promesa que Barack Obama le hizo a Jorge Ramos de que durante su primer año como presidente apoyaría una reforma migratoria.
Jorge Ramos argues for the urgent need to legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States and to reform an immigration system that...
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