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Edokko : Sakura+Maple / by Greene, Loren,author.;
"Sixteen and on top of the world, Lily's BEYOND excited to be setting off for an entire year as an exchange student in Tokyo. Fashion and fun are foremost on her mind as she arrives ready to meet her new host family and embark on a grand adventure, live-streaming all the way. What Lily isn't expecting, however, is for her urban host family to cancel at the last moment and leave her hanging with nowhere to live. She's shipped off to the small town of Ajimu (sorry, where!?), a billion miles from anywhere cool and exciting, with a neurotic host sister, straight-up-vile classmates and a microscopic community watching over her every move."--
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Host families of foreign students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Host family / by Medwed, Mameve.(CARDINAL)640793;
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Host families of foreign students; Students, Foreign; Man-woman relationships;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Breathe in [videorecording] / by Davis, Mackenzie,actor.; Doremus, Drake,1983-film director,screenwriter.; Jones, Ben York,1984-screenwriter.; Jones, Felicity,actor.; Pearce, Guy,1967-actor.(CARDINAL)348826; Rales, Steven,film producer.; Roybal, Mark,film producer.; Ryan, Amy,actor.; Schwartz, Jonathan,film producer.; Sperling, Andrea(Andrea Pam),film producer.; Cohen Media Group,presenter,film distributor.; Indian Paintbrush (Firm),presenter.; QED International,production company.; Super Crispy Entertainment,production company.;
Music, Dustin O'Halloran ; costume designer, Emma Potter ; editor, Jonathan Alberts ; production designer, Kate Byron ; director of photography, John Guleserian.Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis.When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.MPAA rating: R, for some language.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation (presented in a 'letterbox' widescreen format preserving the 'scope' aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen TVs); 5.1 Dolby Digital.Title from disc surface.
Subjects: Feature films.; Melodramas (Motion pictures); Romance films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adultery; Host families of foreign students; May-December romances; Students, Foreign;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Atlas of unknowns / by James, Tania.(CARDINAL)494292;
A story about sisterhood, the tantalizing dream of America, and the secret histories and hilarious eccentricities of families everywhere. When Anju, the daughter of a dyspesic father living in Kerala, India, wins a scholarship to a prestigious school in America, she seizes the opportunity, even though it means betraying her sister. But when Anju goes missing, her sister Linno procures a visa so that she too can travel to America to search for her vanished sister.
Subjects: Fiction.; East Indian students; East Indians; Host families of foreign students; Sisters;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Parachutes / by Yang, Kelly,author.(CARDINAL)675692;
They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the US while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. She soon embraces her newfound freedom, especially when the hottest and most eligible parachute, Jay, asks her out. Dani De La Cruz, Claire's new host sister, couldn't be less thrilled that her mom rented out a room to Claire. An academic and debate-team star, Dani is determined to earn her way into Yale, even if it means competing with privileged kids who are buying their way to the top. When her debate coach starts working with her privately, Dani's game plan veers unexpectedly off course. Desperately trying to avoid each other under the same roof, Dani and Claire find themselves on a collision course, intertwining in deeper and more complicated ways, as they grapple with life-altering experiences.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: School fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Chinese; High school students; Debates and debating; Interpersonal relations; Chinese students; Teenage girls; Conduct of life; Host families of foreign students; Private schools; Schools; Sex crimes; Sexual violence.;
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 37
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Lights all night long / by Fitzpatrick, Lydia,1982-author.(CARDINAL)628150;
With the help of his American host family's daughter, Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Russian exchange student Ilya embarks on a mission to prove his brother Vladimir's innocence in the murders of three girls back in Russia.
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Fiction.; Students, Foreign; Russians; Brothers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Eric / by Tan, Shaun,author.(CARDINAL)704086;
"When a foreign exchange student comes to live with a typical suburban family, he brings with him a boundless sense of curiosity--and a stream of unexpected questions (which his hosts are never quite sure how to answer). But when the moment comes to say good-bye, a beautiful surprise awaits, and a gift the family will never forget."--Publisher's website.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Allegories.; Fiction.; Picture books.; Cultural pluralism; Individual differences; Social acceptance; Student exchange programs;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 14
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The caretakers [large print] : a novel / by Bestor-Siegal, Amanda,author.;
"Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home, watching as the family's American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault--the young foreigner or the mother herself. The truth lies with six women: Géraldine, a French teacher struggling to support her students; Lou, an incompetent au pair who was recently fired by the family next door; Charlotte, a chilly socialite and reluctant mother; Nathalie, a teenager desperate for her mother's attention; Holly, a socially anxious au pair yearning to belong in her adopted country; and finally, Alena, the one accused of the crime, who finds herself caught in the turbulent power dynamics of her host family's household"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Sudden death in children; Child care; Au pairs; Mothers; Women; Children; Mothers.; Women.; Womyn.; Children.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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A word for love : a novel / by Robbins, Emily,author.(CARDINAL)413922;
"A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives--as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. And suddenly, instead of the ancient love story she sought, it is her daily witness of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet-like romance--between a housemaid and policeman of different cultural and political backgrounds--that astonishes her, changes her, and makes her weep. But as the country drifts toward explosive unrest, Bea wonders how many secrets she can keep, and how long she can fight for a romance that does not belong to her. Ultimately, in a striking twist, Bea's own story begins to mirror that of "The Astonishing Text" that drew her there in the first place--not in the role of one of the lovers, as she might once have imagined, but as the character who lives to tell the story long after the lovers have gone. With melodic meditation on culture, language, and familial devotion. Robbins delivers a powerful novel that questions what it means to love from afar, to be an outsider within a love story, and to take someone else's passion and cradle it until it becomes your own"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Romance fiction.; American students; Manuscripts, Arabic; Man-woman relationships; Empathy; Culture conflict;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A word for love [large print] / by Robbins, Emily,author.(CARDINAL)413922;
A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives--as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. And suddenly, instead of the ancient love story she sought, it is her daily witness of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet-like romance--between a housemaid and policeman of different cultural and political backgrounds--that astonishes her, changes her, and makes her weep. But as the country drifts toward explosive unrest, Bea wonders how many secrets she can keep, and how long she can fight for a romance that does not belong to her. Ultimately, in a striking twist, Bea's own story begins to mirror that of "The Astonishing Text" that drew her there in the first place--not in the role of one of the lovers, as she might once have imagined, but as the character who lives to tell the story long after the lovers have gone. With melodic meditation on culture, language, and familial devotion. Robbins delivers a powerful novel that questions what it means to love from afar, to be an outsider within a love story, and to take someone else's passion and cradle it until it becomes your own.
Subjects: Large print books.; Romance fiction.; Psychological fiction.; American students; Manuscripts, Arabic;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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