Emigration category: 2215 books
Funny in Farsi
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • Finalist for the PEN/USA Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the Audie Award in Biography/Memoir
This Random House Reader’s Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini,...
by Edwidge Danticat
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her...
While Europe Slept
How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge...
Bones
Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy
José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would...
Border Crosser
One Gringo's Illicit Passage from Mexico into America
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
Johnny Rico is back. After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in the cult phenomenonBlood Makes the Grass Grow Green*,* he now dares to embed himself on both sides of America’s most dangerous domestic conflict–the war for and against illegal immigration–in...
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement,...
by Arlene Chan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The Order of Canada, the country’s highest honour, is awarded to those who have made a distinct contribution to Canadian life. The late Jean Lumb received the Order of Canada, among other awards, for her role in changing Canada’s immigration laws that separated Chinese families, and for her contribution...
by Svetlana Boym
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities--St....
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and...
City of Dreams
The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
**"Told brilliantly, even unforgettably ... An American story, one that belongs to all of us." — Boston Globe
“A richly textured guide to the history of our immigrant nation’s pinnacle immigrant city has managed to enter the stage during an election season that has resurrected...
World of Our Fathers
The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls...
The Immigrant Advantage
What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Do you have a relative or friend who would gladly wait on you, hand and foot, for a full month after you had a baby? How about someone to deliver a delicious, piping hot home-cooked meal, just like your mother’s, right to your front door after work? Do you know people you’d trust enough to give...
by Alison R. Lanier, Jef C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Now in its sixth edition, with new material and significantly revised chapters!
As William Gay, distinguished adviser to the last edition, so aptly notes, the United States is "a country that is never what you think it is." Since that edition was introduced nearly ten years ago, the...
I've Been Meaning to Tell You
A Letter To My Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat
For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.
I can glimpse,...