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Refugee : the graphic novel / by Gratz, Alan,1972-author.(CARDINAL)345264; Fini, Syd,illustrator.Graphic novelization of (work):; Gratz, Alan,1972-Refugee.;
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.Ages 9-12.Grades 4-6.
Subjects: Graphic novel adaptations.; Gratz, Alan, 1972-; Graphic novels.; Refugees; Emigration and immigration; Survival;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Home/land [large print] : a memoir of departure and return / by Mead, Rebecca,author.(CARDINAL)549621;
"When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself? In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and art, recent and ancient history, and the experience of encounters with individuals, environments, and landscapes in New York City and in England, Mead artfully explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance. She recounts her time in the coastal town of Weymouth, where she grew up; her dizzying first years in New York where she broke into journalism; the rich process of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London. Along the way, she gradually reckons with the complex legacy of her parents. Home/Land is a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been."--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Large print books.; Mead, Rebecca.; Journalists; Emigration and immigration.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Not far from here / by Armendia-Sánchez, Nydia,author.; Holzwarth, Devon,illustrator.(CARDINAL)831693;
"Mamá tells her children a story that began when their papá was a niño, not far from here. Their abuelitas told stories of their antepasados, and their abuelo, a blacksmith, taught their papá how to make art from earth and fire. When abuelo died, papá took all those lessons to heart and crossed la frontera to el norte to follow his sueños. There, he worked and overcame barriers, known to many immigrants alike, to forge his own obra maestra: a familia and a future in which anything is possible.--
Subjects: Picture books.; Emigration and immigration; Hispanic Americans; Families;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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One quarter of the nation : immigration and the transformation of America / by Foner, Nancy,1945-author.(CARDINAL)735442;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Immigration and the transformation of America -- The racial order -- Changing cities and communities -- The economy -- The territory of culture : immigration, popular culture, and the arts -- Electoral politics -- Conclusion: A nation in flux."An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched bookby one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of immigrants and their children-nearly eighty-six million people-now live in the United States. Together, they have transformed the American experience in profound and far-reaching ways that go to the heart of the country's identity and institutions.Unprecedented in scope, One Quarter of the Nation traces how immigration has reconfigured America's racial order-and, importantly, how Americans perceive race-and played a pivotal role in reshaping electoral politics and party alignments. It discusses how immigrants have rejuvenated our urban centers as well as some far-flung rural communities, and examines how theyhave strengthened the economy, fueling the growth of old industries and spurring the formation of new ones. This wide-ranging book demonstrates how immigration has touched virtually every facet of American culture, from the music we dance to and the foodwe eat to the films we watch and books we read.One Quarter of the Nation opens a new chapter in our understanding of immigration. While many books look at how America changed immigrants, this one examines how they changed us. It reminds us that immigration has long been a part of American society, and shows how immigrants and their families continue to redefine who we are as a nation"--
Subjects: Immigrants; Ethnicity;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The roaring twenties, 1920 to 1929 / by Carlisle, Rodney P.(CARDINAL)157654;
MARCIVE 09/21/09Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Family and daily life -- Material culture -- Social attitudes -- Cities and urban life -- Rural life -- Religion -- Education -- Science and technology -- Entertainment and sports -- Crime and violence -- Labor and employment -- Military and wars -- Population trends and migration -- Transportation -- Public health, medicine, and nutrition."Flamboyant, excessive, and abounding in changes, the 1920's fell between the two great wars of the 20th century. Characterized in the United States by the trends of Prohibition, bootleggers, the Harlem Renaissance, Art Deco design, and the Jazz Age, this period witnessed a shift in gender relations and moral values and spawned the first generation gap. While rural life became marked by a religious fundamentalism, urban life tended to an eager acceptance of modernity, a difference highlighted by the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennesse..."--p.[4] of cover.
Subjects: Trial and arbitral proceedings.; Scopes, John Thomas; Harlem Renaissance.; African Americans; Prohibition; Nineteen twenties.; Jazz; Automobiles; Families; Education; Technology; Amusements; National characteristics, American.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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From far away / by Munsch, Robert N.,1945-author.(CARDINAL)739287; Askar, Saoussan,author.(CARDINAL)530410; Green, Rebecca,1986-illustrator.(CARDINAL)416180;
"When Saoussan immigrated with her family from war-torn Lebanon, she was only seven years old. This picture book tells the story of how she had to adjust to her new home in Canada. She describes the frustration of not understanding the teacher when she started school, not knowing how to ask to go to the bathroom, and being terrified of a prop skeleton. This is the perfect book to help kids empathize with immigrant children whose experiences are very similar to Saoussan's."--560LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Askar, Saoussan; Immigrants; Lebanese; Refugees; Schools;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Drawn across borders : true stories of human migration / by Butler, George,1985-author,illustrator.;
Syria, Azaz 2012 -- Tajikistan, Dushanbe 2015 -- Myanmar, Magwe 2015 -- The Balkan route, Greece and Serbia 2015 -- Kenya, Amboseli and Kibera 2018 -- Iraq, West Mosul 2017 -- Serbia, Belgrade 2017 -- Syria, Turkish border 2013 -- Palestine, Gaza 2016 -- Iraq, Mosul 2018 -- Lebanon, Bekaa Valley 2011 -- Iraqi Kurdistan, Duhok 2018."Resisting his own urge to walk away, award-winning artist George Butler took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of remarkable pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects--migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia--shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and war, and of venturing into the unknown in search of jobs, education, and security. Whether sketching by the hospital bed of a ten-year-old Syrian boy who survived an airstrike, drawing the doll of a little Palestinian girl with big questions, or talking with a Masai herdsman forced to abandon his rural Kenyan home for the Kibera slums, George Butler turns reflective art and sensitive reportage into an eloquent cry for understanding and empathy."--Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Emigration and immigration.; Migration, Internal.; Refugees.; Rural-urban migration.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Nuovomondo [videorecording] = Golden door / by Amato, Vincenzo.; Crialese, Emanuele,1965-; Gainsbourg, Charlotte,1971-(CARDINAL)343263; Godard, Agnès.; Quattrocchi, Aurora,1943-; Schiavelli, Vincent.; Scorsese, Martin.(CARDINAL)519412; Arte France cinéma (Firm)(CARDINAL)340704; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340297; Memento Films.; RAI Cinema (Firm)(CARDINAL)355320; Respiro (Firm); Studio Canal+.(CARDINAL)528339; Titti Film (Firm); Wild Bunch (Firm);
Director of photography, Agnès Godard ; editor, Maryline Monthieux ; music, Antonio Castrignanò.Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Vincent Schiavelli, Aurora Quattrocchi.A Sicilian farmer falls in love with a worldly British woman while both are attempting to immigrate to America.MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief graphic nudity.DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Feature films.; Films for the hearing impaired.; Historical films.; Romance films.; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.); Foreign films; Man-woman relationships; Motion pictures, Italian.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Refugee : the graphic novel / by Gratz, Alan,1972-author.(CARDINAL)345264; Fini, Syd,illustrator.; Kazemifar, Neda,colorist.; Czap, K,colorist.(CARDINAL)629772; Montgomery, Warren,letterer.(CARDINAL)629555; McMahon, Jim(Illustrator),cartographer.; Graphic novelization of (work):Gratz, Alan,1972-Refugee.;
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy livng in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.Ages 9-12.Grades 4-6.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Historical comics.; Action and adventure comics.; Graphic novel adaptations.; Gratz, Alan, 1972-; Jewish refugees; Refugee children; Refugee families; Emigration and immigration; Survival;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 21
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The decline of nations / by Johnston, Joseph F.,Author(DLC)n 50040316 ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Decline of Nations takes an in-depth look at the condition of the contemporary United States and shows why Americans should be deeply concerned. It tackles controversial subjects such as immigration, political correctness, morality, religion and the rise of a new elite class. Author Joseph Johnston provides many historical examples of empires declining, including the Roman and British empires, detailing their trajectory from dominance to failure, and, in the case of Britain, subsequent re-emergence as a modern day nation. Johnston delivers riveting lessons on the U.S. government viewed through the lens of excessive centralization and deterioration of the rule of law. He demonstrates the results of weak policies including the surging Progressive movement and the expanding Welfare state. In The Decline of Nations, Johnston asks important questions about diminished military capacity, a broken educational system, and the decline of American arts and culture. He questions the sustainability of the nation's vast global commitments and shows how those commitments are threatening America's strength and prosperity. There is no historical guarantee that the United States can sustain its economic and political dominance in the world scene. By knowing the historic patterns of the great nations and empires, there is much to be learned about America's own destiny.
Subjects: Ethics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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