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1) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Living in Nebraska, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson struggles to make the family farm a success while trying to establish a personal life for herself.
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Language
English
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"Nestled in New York's Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers, daily massages--and all of it for free. In fact, you're paid big money to stay here--more than you've ever dreamed of. The catch? For nine months, you cannot leave the grounds, your movements are monitored, and you are cut off from your former life while you dedicate yourself to the task of producing the perfect baby. For someone...
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
In 1812, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner mark the return of Nathaniel's daughter Hannah, while her half-brother Daniel joins the militia and his twin, Lily, falls in love with a dark and dangerous stranger, in a continuation of the saga of the Bonner family in early America.
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Series
Gracelin O'Malley trilogy volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
"Hoping for a better future, Gracelin O'Malley sets sail from her beloved Ireland, a journey that takes her to a world far different from anything she's ever known. After surviving the difficult voyage, she joins her brother Sean, already much changed by his exciting life in Manhattan. She takes a job in a saloon, learning firsthand the harsh reality of immigrant life and the horrors of the Irish tenement district."--Page 4 of cover.
6) My Ántonia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
My Antonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a particular focus on a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia. The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he goes to live with his grandparents after his parents have died. Jim develops strong feelings for Antonia,...
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...
8) Americanah
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English
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"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
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Eilis Lacey volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of...
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Berrybender narratives volume 3
Language
English
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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.
11) The ghost
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.
Author
Series
Gracelin O'Malley trilogy volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
Having left Ireland with her young children to accept a marriage proposal from a sea captain in San Francisco, Gracelin O'Malley finds herself forced to accept a job with a prominent doctor and caught up in blackmail and betrayal.
13) Blackwater Falls
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From critically acclaimed author Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blackwater Falls is the first in a timely and powerful crime series, introducing Detective Inaya Rahman. Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls largely ignored. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee--the...
14) Death of Riley
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When her new employer is unexpectedly murdered, apprentice private investigator Molly Murphy is determined to catch the killer despite the skepticism of handsome NYPD detective Daniel Sullivan.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying "Dead Man's Walk" to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans.
Author
Series
In the country of others volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In her first new novel since The Perfect Nanny launched her onto the world stage and won her acclaim for her "devastatingly perceptive character studies" (The New York Times Book Review), Leila Slimani draws on her own family's inspiring story for the first volume in a planned trilogy about race, resilience, and women's empowerment. Mathilde, a spirited young Frenchwoman, falls in love with Amine, a handsome Moroccan soldier in the French army during...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination,...
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Meeting resistance in her efforts to become a private detective in 1901 New York City, Molly Murphy works to track down the wayward daughter of an aristocratic family and goes undercover in the garment business to expose industrial espionage.
1901, New York City. Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective, she's finding many places where women are not welcome, something that's as frustrating to her fiery Irish pride as it is to her rapidly...
19) In like Flynn
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son.
20) In a gilded cage
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.
Easter Sunday, 1918, New York City. Molly Murphy is arrested for marching down Fifth Avenue with suffragettes from Vassar. Two of the Vassar women, impressed by her, hire her for cases. One believes...
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