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1	Shanghai Girls more books like this by Lisa See add to wishlist From the author of the bestsellers "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony in Love" comes a stunning new novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. see all copies from $14.72! new only from $14.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Brooklyn more books like this by Colm Toibin add to wishlist From the award-winning author of "The Master" comes a moving historical novel set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, concerning a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the American who wins her heart. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	White Teeth more books like this by Zadie Smith add to wishlist An Englishman, Archie Jones, and a Bengali Muslim named Samad Iqbal, who first met after World War II in Turkey, encounter each other again 30 years later in the North-West London neighborhood where they live with their families. The daughter of Archie and his Jamaican wife falls in love with Samad's radical fundamentalist son. Archie's sister-in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Strength in What Remains more books like this by Tracy Kidder add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classics "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and "The Soul of a New Machine" returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to turn his life into something truly remarkable. see all copies from $13.79! new only from $15.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Bread Givers more books like this by Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-Harris (Foreword by) add to wishlist This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Arrival more books like this by Shaun Tan add to wishlist "A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay." -- Jeff Smith, author of Bone "A magical river of strangers and their stories!" -- ... see all copies from $11.03! new only from $15.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Namesake more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri add to wishlist Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer for her story collection, INTERPRETER OF MALADIES. Her first novel, set in Boston and New York, begins in 1968 with a young Indian man doing research at MIT, and his wife, who becomes pregnant with a son. As years go by, their son, unlike his parents, becomes thoroughly westernized and even rebellious, with a series ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Away more books like this by Amy Bloom add to wishlist At once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable, "Away" is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, who emigrates to America after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	History of Love more books like this by Nicole Krauss add to wishlist Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Lazarus Project more books like this by Aleksandar Hemon add to wishlist On 2 March 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, a Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the home of the city's Chief of Police, George Shippy. Instead of taking the letter, Shippy shot Averbuch twice, killing him. Lazarus Averbuch, Shippy claimed, was an anarchist assassin and an agent of foreign operatives who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	By Sorrows River more books like this by Larry McMurtry add to wishlist In volume three of the Berrybender saga, as the family makes its way west, Tasmin's husband has disappeared, her son Monty is being groomed--with difficulty--for the life of a gentleman, and Lord Berrybender has, shockingly, fallen in love with his mistress. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Giants in the earth : a saga of the prairie more books like this by Ole Edvart Rolvaag add to wishlist The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Road Home more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist 'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved with his story, as he struggles with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.17! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Hawaii more books like this by James A Michener add to wishlist A saga of love, violence, sex and sin. From the first Polynesians who settled the island to the Japanese who fought in the Nisei battalions in World War II, this Michener novel presents Hawaii in all its beauty, mystery and exotic splendour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life more books like this by Roger Daniels add to wishlist The second edition of this compelling text contains updated notes and bibliography and a new chapter, called immigration in an age of globalization, which looks particularly at new immigration law and policy in the US in the 1990s. The text explores economic and social reasons for immigration, polic see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Brick Lane more books like this by Monica Ali add to wishlist In BRICK LANE, after an arranged marriage, Nazneen moves with her much older husband, Chanu, from Bangladesh to London, where over the years she manages to make a place for herself in spite of her husband's inability to cope. As she gains strength from raising two feisty daughters, taking a socially committed lover, and learning to make some money ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Sin Killer more books like this by Larry McMurtry add to wishlist Against the immense backdrop of the American West at the dawn of its expansion, McMurtry has created a wonderfully engaging family confronting every bigger-than-life personality of the frontier. It is 1830 and the Berrybender family--rich, English, and fiercely out of place--is on its way up the Missouri River to grab some of the countless acres ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	House of Sand and Fog more books like this by Andre Dubus, III add to wishlist This second novel by Andre Dubus 3rd (son of acclaimed writer Andre Dubus) is about an Iranian immigrant who stumbles into a complex struggle over the possession of a California house with the down-on-her-luck woman who used to own it and the sheriff who is in love with her. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	To the Far Blue Mountains: The Sacketts more books like this by Louis L'Amour add to wishlist This is the second work in author L'Amour's extensive family saga about the Sacketts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.46! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminski: Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 more books like this by Susan Campbell Bartoletti add to wishlist This book, written in diary form, tells the story of 14-year-old Annetka who lives in Sadowka, Poland in 1896 with her grandmother and little brother. Her life changes when her father says she must come to America and marry one of his co-workers. The diary tells the struggles of her everyday life as a young bride whose world will never be the same ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Immigrant Kids more books like this by Russell Freedman add to wishlist An exploration of the lives of children who emigrated to the United States during the turn of the century. Black-and-white photographs illustrate the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Mad Desire to Dance more books like this by Elie Wiesel add to wishlist From the Nobel laureate author of "Night" comes a searing new novel about a man whose life is shaped by his changing grasp of the horrors of the 20th century. see all copies from $10.50! new only from $12.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Sophie's Heart more books like this by Lori Wick add to wishlist Sophie, quiet and shy, has fled her native Czechoslovakia and needs work. Janet, her Bible study teacher, recommends Sophie to Alec, Janet's brother, as a housekeeper. Alec, the father of three, had recently lost his wife in a car crash and reluctantly agrees to hire Sophie. Love slowly blooms and barriers are overcome in this moving triumph of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| SVS
24 view cover	The View from Castle Rock more books like this by Alice Munro add to wishlist From the award-winning and bestselling author of "Runaway" comes a new book of short stories that is as transporting as anything shes ever written ("New York Times"). see all copies from $2.31! new only from $8.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	In Like Flynn more books like this by Rhys Bowen add to wishlist In 1902 New York, Molly agrees to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters, hired by the wife of a senator hoping to contact her dead son, who was kidnapped years before. After a sance, Molly isn't sure the sisters are fakes, but she's certain police bungled the kidnapping case. Martin's Press. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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