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Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to Bruno, a charming but wicked man who takes her in and forces...
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Banished by her wealthy Filipino family in Manila, Amparo Guerrero travels to Oakland, California, to forge a new life. Although her mother labels her life in exile a diminished one, Amparo believes her struggles are a small price to pay for freedom. Like Amparo, Beverly Obejas{u2014}an impoverished Filipina waitress{u2014}forsakes Manila and comes to Oakland as a mail-order bride in search of a better life. Yet even in the land of plenty, Beverly...
Author
Publisher
Rebel Girls
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Contains one hundred biographies of immigrant women who left their birth countries for a multitude of reasons: some for new opportunities, some out of neccessity. Readers will learn about Madeleine Albright, Asma Khan, Carmen Miranda, Rihanna, and many more. From chefs and surgeons, to musicians and politicians, to champions of judo and chess, these extraordinary figures will inspired girls everywhere to follow their dreams, no matter where they...
4) O pioneers!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. The daughter of the family inherits the land when her father dies, and the story follows her struggle to maintain it when many around her are leaving the prairie in defeat. There are two romantic narratives in the novel: that of the daughter and a family friend, and of her brother and a married woman.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives in New England after two years separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover's identity, she is condemned to wear a letter °' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honour.
For the next...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
My Ántonia: Story is told by a New York lawyer who reviews his Nebraska boyhood days and his friendship with a young bohemian girl, the strong and simple Antonia Shimerda, who is the central figure of the novel.
O pioneers!: The story of the Bergson family and their friends and neighbors. Describes the pioneers' struggle for survival in the barren, underdeveloped Nebraska tableland.
9) My Antonia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
My Antonia(1918) depicts the pioneering period of European settlement on the tall-grass prairie of the American midwest, with its beautiful yet terrifying landscape, rich ethnic mix of immigrants and native-born Americans, and communities who share life's joys and sorrows.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
12) Honolulu
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Journeying to 1914 Hawaii as a mail-order bride, Korean-born Jin finds her hopes devastated by the realities of a rushed marriage to a bitter laborer; a situation throughout which she works to overcome limited opportunities.
13) Prairie trilogy
Author
Publisher
[unknown independent publisher]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In one volume, all three novels comprising Willa Cather's Prairie Trilogy. Included in this volume are:O Pioneers! (originally published in 1913)The Song of the Lark (originally published in 1915)My Antonia (originally published in 1918)Willa Cather (1873-1947) was an American author known for her vivid depictions of life in the American Midwest. Born in Virginia in 1873, Cather moved to Nebraska with her family at the age of nine. It was there that...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
A chance airport encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1856. Three women-once strangers-come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise: Thomas...
18) Flower drum song
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This unforgettable Broadway smash, filled with memorable songs and brilliant dances, centers on a Hong Kong girl who comes to San Franciso for an arranged marriage. Features the hit tunes: "I enjoy being a girl", "Chop Suey", and "A hundred million miracles".
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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.
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