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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Author
Series
Pippa Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After Pippa Park mysteriously receives a basketball scholarship to Lakeview Private School, she takes the opportunity to reinvent herself, but anonymous messages on social media and trying to keep secrets from her new classmates threaten her new self.
4) Front desk
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
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Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Drawn from Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this heartfelt picture book offers a window into the life of a family with little money and a great deal of love"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
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Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
"El sonido de la vida es un emocionante viaje que comienza en Hanover en 1904 y termina en Beatrice, Misuri, en la actualidad. El narrador es James, el nieto de Frederick y Jette, una pareja que se enamora a pesar de la oposición de todos. La única alternativa que les queda es huir de su Alemania natal a Estados Unidos, la tierra de las oportunidades a comienzos del siglo XX. El destino los lleva hasta esa pequeña ciudad de Misuri, donde deciden...
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