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Social Science - Emigration & Immigration
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Author: Harold Holzer |
Release Date: February 13, 2024
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln’s grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War.In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-b...
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Author: Laura Tillman | Narrator: Cindy Kay
Release Date: May 23, 2023
A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining. Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United State...
Author: Javier Zamora | Narrator: Javier Zamora
Release Date: September 06, 2022
New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex AwardA young poet tells the i...
Author: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa and Mim Eichler Rivas | Narrator: Henry Leyva
Release Date: May 03, 2022
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato f...
Author: Rebecca Mead | Narrator: Rebecca Mead
Release Date: February 08, 2022
A moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land—this is a “winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the w...
Author: Albert Samaha | Narrator: Albert Samaha
Release Date: October 12, 2021
“Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror“If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s mother, it would already be wholly worthwhile. Bu...
Author: Anna Qu | Narrator: Catherine Ho
Release Date: August 03, 2021
A young girl forced to work in a Queens sweatshop calls child services on her mother in this powerful debut memoir about labor and self-worth that traces a Chinese immigrant’s journey to an American future.As a teen, Anna Qu is sent by her moth...
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Author: George W. Bush | Narrator: George W. Bush
Release Date: April 20, 2021
In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. The issue of immigra...
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Author: Roya Hakakian | Narrator: Roya Hakakian
Release Date: March 16, 2021
A stirring, witty, and poignant glimpse into the bewildering American immigrant experience from someone who has lived it. Hakakian's "love letter to the nation that took her in [is also] a timely reminder of what millions of human bein...
Author: David Nasaw | Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Release Date: September 15, 2020
From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWIIIn May 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of gl...
Author: Matthew Yglesias | Narrator: Matthew Yglesias
Release Date: September 15, 2020
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWhat would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge ...
Author: Jessica Goudeau | Narrator: Soneela Nankani
Release Date: August 04, 2020
"Simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion" --The New York Times Book ReviewThe story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptan...