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1) The leavers
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English
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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been...
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Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers{u2019} money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait. Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar{u2019}s phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?...
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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In late 1980s Chicago, Nick Hayden, a rookie INS field agent, is eager to make his mark in the unit responsible for picking up illegal immigrants around the city. Hayden excels, whether he's raiding factories or busting Colombian drug dealers. Seen as a rising star by supervisors, over time the green, idealistic Hayden evolves into what one veteran agent terms a "gladiator," an agent willing to do whatever is necessary to get the job...
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HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness.-Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman-or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and...
5) Alien eyes
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Series
Elaki volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The electrifying second book in Lynn Hightower's futuristic crime series plunges big-city cop David Silver into a nasty interstellar war Saigo City police detective David Silver and his partner Mel Burnett have been called to an unusual crime scene: a bed where four Elaki pouchlings have been smothered. The killer appears to be the babies' alien mother, who just shot herself and is in critical condition. But there are rumors the murders were politically...
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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America's immigration crisis is out of control!
Unregulated immigration has led to an increase in crime, a loss of working class jobs, an inflated welfare state, and an elevated amount of terror threats on our home territory. The clash of differing emotions, facts, and opinions reveal that this issue is not simply a nationwide disagreement; it is an American crisis.
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, authors John Zmirak and Al...
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English
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"Beautiful Country is the real deal. Heartrending, unvarnished, and powerfully courageous, this account of growing up undocumented in America will never leave you."--Gish Jen, author of The Resisters. "Ba Ba told me this and I in turn carried it in my heart: so long as we didn't stake claim to what wasn't ours--the things, our rooms, America, this beautiful country--we would be okay." An incandescent and heartrending memoir about Qian Julie Wang's...
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of James Patterson's Michael Bennett series, Michael Ledwidge, launches an adrenaline-fueled globetrotting thriller series for fans of James Patterson, Lee Child and David Baldacci.
When a Gulf Stream jet goes down in the Bahamas carrying a fortune in cash and ill-gotten diamonds, expat diving instructor Michael Gannon is the only person on the scene. Assuming himself the beneficiary of a drug deal gone...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. ?Ronald Reagan America is under siege, facing a hostile invasion on its own soil that most of its citizens know nothing about: the invaders are illegal immigrants, their battleground is the U.S-Mexico border, and what's at stake is the money, security, and freedom of all Americans. In this chilling exposé, investigative journalist Jon Dougherty...
11) The Border
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
One moment changed their lives forever. A band plays, glasses clink, and four teens sneak into the Mexican desert, the hum of celebration receding behind them. Crack. Crack. Crack. Not fireworks-gunshots. The music stops. And Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys are powerless as the lives they once knew are taken from them. Then they are seen by the gunmen. They run. Except they have nowhere to go. The Narcos responsible for their families' murders have...
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Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
During his campaign for the presidency, one of Donald Trump's signature promises was that he would build a "great great wall" on the border between the US and Mexico, and Mexico was going to pay for it. A year and a half into his term, with only a few prototype segments erected, the wall is the 2,000-mile, multibillion-dollar elephant in the room of contemporary American life.
In The Great Great Wall, architectural historian and critic Ian Volner...
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