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Love across borders : passports, papers, and romance in a divided world / by Lekas Miller, Anna,1990-author.(CARDINAL)866560;
"Love Across Borders takes readers through contentious frontiers around the world to reveal the widespread prejudicial laws intent on dividing us. Anna Lekas Miller tells her own gripping story of meeting Salem Rizk in Istanbul, where they were reporting on the Syrian civil war. But when Turkey started cracking down on refugees, Salem, who is Syrian, wasn't allowed to stay there, nor could he safely return to Syria. In this look at the global immigration crisis, Lekas Miller interweaves love stories similar to her own with a study of the history of passports, the legacy of colonialism, and the discriminatory laws shaping how people move through the world every day"--Includes bibliographical references.Prologue: An Indecent Proposal -- Be Brave -- Penguins and Birds -- Your Relationship or Your Country? -- A Mouse -- No Border Can Get in the Way of Your Love -- Finding Light in the Darkness -- No Country to Call Home -- The Gift of Wings -- Migrant or Refugee? -- "The American Refugee" -- A Hostile Environment -- I Married a Refugee for Papers -- The Green Card Marriage -- Breaking Borders.
Subjects: Case studies.; Border security; Love; International travel regulations.; Passports; Statelessness.; Xenophobia.; Passports.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 8
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Where butterflies fill the sky : a story of immigration, family, and finding home / by Marwan, Zahra,1989-author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)898343;
"An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States."--Ages: 4-8.500LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Picture books.; Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Marwan, Zahra, 1989-; Kuwaiti Americans; Stateless persons; Immigrants;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 29
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Giannis : the improbable rise of an NBA MVP / by Fader, Mirin,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-369) and index.Hunger -- Dreaming -- Stateless -- Found -- America -- Lonely -- Hope -- Reunited -- Mean -- Star -- Loss -- Identity -- Freak -- MVP -- Home."As the face of the NBA's new world order, Giannis Antetokounmpo has overcome unfathomable obstacles to become a symbol of hope for people all over the world, the personification of the American Dream. But his backstory remains largely untold, and Fader unearths new information about the childhood that shaped "The Greek Freak"--from sleeping side by side with his brothers to selling trinkets on the side of the street with his family to the racism he experienced in Greece. Antetokounmpo grew up in an era when Golden Dawn, Greek's far-right, anti-immigrant party, patrolled his neighborhood, and his status as an illegal immigrant largely prevented him from playing for Greek's top clubs, making his rise to the NBA all the more improbable. Fader tells a deeply-human story of how an unknown, skinny, Black-Greek teen, who played in the country's lowest pro division and was seen as a draft gamble, transformed his body and his game into MVP material."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Antetokounmpo, Giannis, 1994-; Milwaukee Bucks (Basketball team); Athletes, Black; Basketball players;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 14
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Israel in the news : past, present, and future / by Aretha, David.(CARDINAL)643277;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-124) and index.Another chance for peace -- Land and climate -- The Jewish faith -- Israeli culture -- A stateless people -- An embattled nation -- A strained economy.
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict; Jews;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Twice armed : an American soldier's battle for hearts and minds in Iraq / by King, R. Alan,1963-(CARDINAL)836888;
Reflections of war -- The journey -- Twenty-four hours -- Reaching out -- We wanted you to win -- This will do -- Changing places -- Bet your career -- Tribal honor -- No time for tears -- The intifada -- Facing a stateless enemy -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; King, R. Alan, 1963-; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Soldiers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Human trafficking around the world : hidden in plain sight / by Hepburn, Stephanie,1977-author.(CARDINAL)475259; Simon, Rita J.(Rita James),1931-2013,author.(CARDINAL)148158;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-521) and index.
Subjects: Human trafficking.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The iron cage : the story of the Palestinian struggle for statehood / by Khalidi, Rashid.(CARDINAL)168094;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-263) and index.
Subjects: Fatḥ (Organization); Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.; Arab-Israeli conflict.; National liberation movements; Palestinian Arabs;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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At play in the fields of the Lord / by Matthiessen, Peter.(CARDINAL)122337;
In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the fearful and elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante.
Subjects: Didactic fiction.; Indians of South America; Missionaries; Rain forests;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Code name verity / by Wein, Elizabeth,author.(CARDINAL)339463;
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Air pilots; World War, 1939-1945; Friendship; Nazis; Insurgency; Friendships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Taste makers : seven immigrant women who revolutionized food in America / by Sen, Mayukh,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen-a queer, brown child of immigrants-reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what's on their plate-and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Chao, Buwei Yang, 1889-1981.; Zelayeta, Elena.; Child, Julia.; Kamman, Madeleine.; Hazan, Marcella.; Sahni, Julie.; Batmanglij, Najmieh, 1947-; Shirley, Norma.; Women cooks; Women immigrants;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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