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Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
With more than three million foreign-born residents today, New York has been America's defining port of entry for nearly four centuries, a magnet for transplants from all over the globe. These migrants have brought their hundreds of languages and distinct cultures to the city, and from there to the entire country. More immigrants have come to New York than all other entry points combined. City of Dreams is peopled with memorable characters both beloved...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"The protagonist of this historical novel, which is set in the Shetland Islands and also New York City around 1840, is Christian Robertson, a crofter and son of a crofter (small, struggling tenant farmer). When Christian's brother frames him for the theftof a bag of coins, Christian must leave home and embark on a journey to return the coins and clear his name"--
Author
Series
Sofia's immigrant diary volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
5) Ellis island
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Description
"In 1920s New York, a young Irish woman must choose between her new life and her husband back home in Ireland"--Provided by publisher.
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