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The Lucky Ones

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Author : Mae M. Ngai
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400845033
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Ones written by Mae M. Ngai and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history illuminates American history. Seven-year-old Mamie attempts to integrate California schools, resulting in the landmark 1885 case Tape v. Hurley. The family's intimate involvement in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair reveals how Chinese American brokers essentially invented Chinatown, and so Chinese culture, for American audiences. Finally, The Lucky Ones reveals aspects--timely, haunting, and hopeful--of the lasting legacy of the immigrant experience for all Americans. This expanded edition features a new preface and a selection of historical documents from the Chinese exclusion era that forms the backdrop to the Tape family's story.

Lucky Boy

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Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110198225X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People “A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. Undocumented and unmoored, Soli discovers that her son, Ignacio, can become her touchstone, and motherhood her identity in a world where she’s otherwise invisible. Kavya Reddy has created a beautiful life in Berkeley, but then she can’t get pregnant and that beautiful life seems suddenly empty. When Soli is placed in immigrant detention and Ignacio comes under Kavya’s care, Kavya finally gets to be the singing, story-telling kind of mother she dreamed of being. But she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. “Nacho” to Soli, and “Iggy” to Kavya, the boy is steeped in love, but his destiny and that of his two mothers teeters between two worlds as Soli fights to get back to him. Lucky Boy is a moving and revelatory ode to the ever-changing borders of love.

Lucky Boy

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Author : Shanthi Sekaran
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101982241
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two mothers are bound together by their love for one boy.

The Lucky Immigrant

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Author : Fortunato Rao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780772763082
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Immigrant written by Fortunato Rao and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lucky Immigrant

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Author : Fortunato Rao
Publisher : Multicultural History Society of Ontario and the Centre for Instructional Technology Press, University of Toronto at Scarborough
ISBN 13 : 9780772763099
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Lucky Immigrant written by Fortunato Rao and published by Multicultural History Society of Ontario and the Centre for Instructional Technology Press, University of Toronto at Scarborough. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Life Story of a Grateful Immigrant Who Lived the American Dream

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Author : Olimpio Guidi
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480875082
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book My Life Story of a Grateful Immigrant Who Lived the American Dream written by Olimpio Guidi and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing up amid the horrors of World War II as a boy in the Republic of San Marino, Olimpio Guidi considers himself lucky. He grew up with great parents, great siblings, and great friends and neighbors. Although everyone he knew was poor, they all stuck together—a lesson he’d carry with him throughout his life in the U.S. Navy and over a career spanning almost forty years as a civil servant. In recalling his life story, he shares an unlikely tale of survival that included immigrating with his family to his adopted home country of the United States of America. He shares his appreciation for everyone who has assisted him on his journey, including U.S. Navy Cmdr. Toby Haynsworth, who was instrumental in helping him become a lifelong civil servant, culminating with an assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy, where he represented the U.S. Department of Defense. Join the author as he celebrates his love of family, his passion for service, and his love for his adopted country.

Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants

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Author : Barry Moreno
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439620032
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Ellis Island's Famous Immigrants written by Barry Moreno and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-16 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1776, millions of immigrants have landed at Americas shores. To this day, their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor, including agriculture, industry, and the service trades. But within the great immigrant waves there also came plucky and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional folk went on to win worldly renown, and their names live on in history. Ellis Islands Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and highlights their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within its pages include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Chef Boyardee; Hollywood icons Pola Negri, Bela Lugosi, and Bob Hope; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; authors Isaac Asimov and Kahlil Gibran; painters Arshile Gorky and Max Ernst; and sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller.

The Accidental Immigrant

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Author : Jerzy Glowczewski
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477163069
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Immigrant written by Jerzy Glowczewski and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Author Having spent nearly ten years writing my memoirs, originally in Polish, I hope that with this English edition they will reach a wider circle of readers. They span more than eighty years of turbulent world historyand when is such history not turbulent?--and include details which may not be familiar to many readers. Those acquainted with the epoch I am describing may wander, before picking up the book, whether it is yet another retelling of an often described drama, the subject already of myriad historical classics. I would say, yes, but it is a retelling with a twist. This book is, above all, a tale of exceptional good fortune, which, in contrast to the experiences of many others of my generation, has been my oddly lucky lot. I have lived on the edge of a precipice, yet have somehow managed to miss the worst fate. I have been steps away from death, a refugee fleeing deportation, starvation, and death camps. While fighting on two fronts during World War II, I had been shot at innumerable times; while in combat, I have without a doubt caused the death of others. After the wars end, living under a Soviet-imposed communist regime, I was spared torture and prison. And I did not choose emigration, but circumstances forced meand my wife and daughterto accept it. Luckily, we found ourselves in Americaland of promise. Ironically, however, we arrived here during a difficult period of social upheaval and racial unrest. Political conflict, assassinations, bombings, and the tragedy of an interventionist war in Indochina formed the backdrop of our new life in our adopted country. Later, working in the Middle East, I witnessed the early seeds of the conflict that now besieges us all. Looking back, I can hardly believe that through it all my luck held out, and that I was able to write my memoirs in the peace and quiet of my own home. And I trust that you will enjoy reading them--the story of an incorrigible optimist.

Profit, Prosper, and Live a Rich Life

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Author : Marciano Guerrero
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781650142784
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Profit, Prosper, and Live a Rich Life written by Marciano Guerrero and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the stories, examples, and vignettes you'll find in this book come from my own personal experience in business as well as from academia. It is a book for self-growth, self-help, success, and prosperity, as experienced by a lucky liberal immigrant man from the Andes, Peru. I believe that we must always learn from our triumphs as well as from our defeats -wealth vs poverty, success vs failure, deprivation vs abundance, health vs illness, and misfortune vs happiness- and pass on our experiences for others to benefit.

Lucky Broken Girl

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Author : Ruth Behar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399546464
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Broken Girl written by Ruth Behar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Pura Belpre Award! “A book for anyone mending from childhood wounds.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street In this unforgettable multicultural coming-of-age narrative—based on the author’s childhood in the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant girl is adjusting to her new life in New York City when her American dream is suddenly derailed. Ruthie’s plight will intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time. Ruthie Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. Just when she’s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood’s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie’s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.

From the Lucky Land to the Beautiful Country Illegal Immigration of Fujianese to the United States

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Author : Miao Lin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book From the Lucky Land to the Beautiful Country Illegal Immigration of Fujianese to the United States written by Miao Lin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Lucky Life

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Author : Gerry Tacey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780869059197
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book A Lucky Life written by Gerry Tacey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touches on pre-War Britain, D-Day, and his move to Australia, and work as a telegraph operator at the Cottesloe Cable Station and on Cocos Island..

By Luck Possessed

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Author : manfred weidhorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book By Luck Possessed written by manfred weidhorn and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of my eventful life

The Long Road to the Lucky Country

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Author : Leo Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781876733544
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Long Road to the Lucky Country written by Leo Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Joy Luck Club

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Author : Amy Tan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101502738
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” —Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflix Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. Mothers boast or despair over daughters, and daughters roll their eyes even as they feel the inextricable tightening of their matriarchal ties. Tan is an astute storyteller, enticing readers to immerse themselves into these lives of complexity and mystery.

Useful Phrases for Immigrants

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Author : May-Lee Chai
Publisher : Bakwin Award
ISBN 13 : 9780932112767
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Useful Phrases for Immigrants written by May-Lee Chai and published by Bakwin Award. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight innovative, timely stories illuminate the hopes and fears of Chinese immigrants and their descendants.

Babel in the Lucky Country

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Author : William George Coppell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Babel in the Lucky Country written by William George Coppell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: