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1) The namesake
Author
Language
English
Description
When his Indian immigrant parents give him an odd name, a boy must struggle towards manhood suffering the burdens of this name as well as the conflicting loyalties of his heritage.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake and spending quality time with her parents. But when her mom's cancer reappears, Lucy falters-in her faith and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend "pauses" their relationship and her summer job switches to a different camp-one for troubled kids-Lucy isn't sure how much more she can handle. Attempting to accept a new normal, Lucy slowly...
3) Namesake
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Marigold and its crew were set to start over with Fable free of her father, until she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme, needing to get him to the notorious gem dealer, Holland. As she learns that her mother was keeping secrets that endanger the people Fable has come to care about, she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found, in order to save it.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this film whose title is a Senegalese proverb, a griot (story teller) traveling from Dakar to Brussels weaves a tale about African expatriates and offers a candid look at the life of African immigrants in Belgium. With Sotigui Kouyaté - a real life griot - as the story teller.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
Baya Benmahmoud, a young, extroverted liberal, lives by the old hippie slogan: Make love, not war to convert right-wing men to her left-wing political causes by sleeping with them. She seduces many and so far has received exceptional results - until she meets Arthur Martin, a Jewish middle aged, middle-of-the road scientist. Bound by common tragic family histories (the Algerian War and Holocaust under Vichy), the duo improbably falls in love. Amid...
6) The namesake
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways
8) The names
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1982
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Novelist Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in an English cathedral city. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull and by...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Names for Light traverses time and memory to weigh three generations of a family's history against a painful inheritance of postcolonial violence and racism. In spare, lyric paragraphs framed by white space, Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint explores home, belonging, and identity by revisiting the cities in which her parents and grandparents lived. As she makes inquiries into their stories, she intertwines oral narratives with the official and mythic histories...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At twenty years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs, seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Leaping at this chance to be a mountain man, with no experience in the wilds, he left the world. Thirteen years later, he published his beloved memoir of that winter, Indian Creek Chronicles --Into the Wild with a twist. Twenty five years later, he was asked to return to the wilderness to babysit more fish...
Author
Publisher
New Hope Publishers, an imprint of Iron Stream Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This 1900s historical novel shares Anna Rycroft's life, which is changed by some startling encounters with Dickins's A Christmas Carol characters."--Publisher's description.
She has a powerful voice able to mesmerize the vaudeville audiences, but Annalise Rycroft has spent her whole life afraid she'll be lost to obscurity. During the 1918 flu epidemic she has a feverish experience: characters from her favorite book unlock a hidden part of her past,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ruth Zook returns home to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase and a heavier heart. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth retaliates by destroying her illicit burden and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth confesses that she was similarly coerced, Sheriff Bruce Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community. He immediately moves the investigation South, where more...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the acclaimed and award-winning debut The Map of Salt and Stars, a remarkably moving and lyrical novel following three generations of Syrian Americans who are linked by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. He has been unable to paint since his mother's ghost has begun to visit him each...
20) The Naming
Author
Series
Pellinor volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
A manuscript from the lost civilization of Edil-Amarandah chronicles the experiences of sixteen-year-old Maerad, an orphan gifted in the magic and power of the Bards, as she escapes from slavery and begins to learn how to use her Gift to stave off the evil Darkness that threatens to consume her world
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