When his grandfather's rebab is stolen, Afghan refugee Sami makes a series of trades throughout Boston and Cambridge in order to make enough money to buy it back from the pawnshop.
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A young immigrant works as a home health aid in Beverly Hills while coming to terms with the events that made her leave Brazil.
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With problems at school looming, Marcus convinces his mom to spend a week visiting family in Puerto Rico. He plans to track down his estranged father while they're on the island, but things don't quite go the way he hopes.
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This novel moves between two timelines: a current-day historian is putting together an exhibit at a Long Island house museum (which seems to have a friendly but persistent resident ghost), while during the French and Indian War, a farm family plays host to a captured soldier. Delightfully satisfying romances in both timelines, plus a well-handled discussion of Northern slavery in the 1700s.
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A collection of thoughtful essays on the immigrant experience and being Latino in the US in 2018.
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Lou Bulosan-Nelson's plan to keep her mother in San Francisco by building a tiny house runs into some problems.
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A formerly enslaved woman goes undercover in Virginia during the Civil War. Elle is prepared to fight, but not to fall in love with another secret agent.
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Ten-year-old Mia takes charge of the office at the motel her immigrant parents run in a debut novel that is both realistic and delightful.
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A blend of memoir and science explores what we know (and don't know--find out how little we understand about the placenta!) about the biology and psychology of pregnancy and childbirth that puts women's experiences at the center.
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A teenage girl dresses as a boy and follows her older brother to western New York in 1807.
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