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Product Description: Summary for manuscript back page- BID 114816 5/25/2012 In 1925, Latvia enjoyed a prosperous resurgence of life as a country that had won independence after WWI. Into this setting, Gerda Roze was born, the only child of two doting parents who sent her to the finest schools to study with the best teachers...read more

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9781479734283 | Author Solutions, December 18, 2012, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Summary for manuscript back page- BID 114816 5/25/2012 In 1925, Latvia enjoyed a prosperous resurgence of life as a country that had won independence after WWI.

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9781479734276 | Author Solutions, December 18, 2012, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Summary for manuscript back page- BID 114816 5/25/2012 In 1925, Latvia enjoyed a prosperous resurgence of life as a country that had won independence after WWI.

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Product Description: In Almost Home, H. B. Cavalcanti, a Brazilian-born scholar who has spent three decades working and living in the United States, reflects on his life as an immigrant and places his story within the context of the larger history of immigration...read more

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9780299288945 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 5, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In Almost Home, H.

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Product Description: Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father's ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century. They sparred unsuccessfully with ruling Ottoman Turks and escaped with their families to America...read more

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9780815609742 | 1 edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, April 30, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came.

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Product Description: At the end of World War II, many thousands of displaced persons languished in European refugee camps unable or unwilling to return to their native lands. A Land Bright with Promise recalls the life journey of one such refugee following his immigration to the United States...read more

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9781433118463 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 10, 2012, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: At the end of World War II, many thousands of displaced persons languished in European refugee camps unable or unwilling to return to their native lands.

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Product Description: This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about! The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in my checkered life! I hope my grandkids and/or readers would learn from my knocks in life, and how I overcame my nerve wrecking and dilapidating days of my scuffle with Lady death on more than two occasions...read more

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9781463439798 | Authorhouse, November 21, 2011, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about!

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9781463439804 | Authorhouse, November 21, 2011, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about!

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9781884167553 | Umbrage Editions Inc, December 27, 2011, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members...read more
By Peter Morton Coan and Barry Moreno (foreword by)

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9781616143947 | Prometheus Books, September 20, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century.

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Product Description: From Lebanon to Africa and America: My Roots book

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9780757592621 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 21, 2012, cover price $26.25 | About this edition: From Lebanon to Africa and America: My Roots book

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Product Description: A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming AmericanFifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy. This means touring with the family band from the Mongolian deserts to the Siberian tundra. It means getting your hair cut in "the Lioness...read more

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9780374104078 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 3, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A vivid and funny memoir about growing up Gypsy and becoming AmericanFifteen-year-old Oksana Marafioti is a Gypsy.

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Product Description: Just Passing Through is the story of a German family caught up in the political maelstrom of the Third Reich. The author's mother was born in Frankfurt on Main into a middle-class family and at age eighteen married a Jewish businessman with whom she had two children...read more

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9781453544846 | Xlibris Corp, May 20, 2011, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Just Passing Through is the story of a German family caught up in the political maelstrom of the Third Reich.

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9781453544839 | Xlibris Corp, May 20, 2011, cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Just Passing Through is the story of a German family caught up in the political maelstrom of the Third Reich.

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By Ilan Stavans (introduced by)

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9780268029791 | 40 anv edition (Univ of Notre Dame Pr, February 1, 2011), cover price $18.00

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Product Description: "Dr. Nicholas La Bianca was born in Giovinazzo,(Bari), Italy in 1930, and during his early life had to live underthe Fascist regime and witness depravation, death, anddestruction brought by WWII. He received the best classicaleducation available in that country and after the war movedto the United States...read more

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9781453519493 | Xlibris Corp, June 22, 2010, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: "Dr.

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9781453519486 | Xlibris Corp, June 22, 2010, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: "Dr.

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Product Description: A Patriot from Gransee is a brief narrative of Klaus Langehans from his birth in Gransee, Germany only a few weeks before the surrender of Germany during World War II, to the exodus of the Langehans family to America and of Klaus' experiences during the Vietnam war.

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9781450068031 | Xlibris Corp, April 26, 2010, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A Patriot from Gransee is a brief narrative of Klaus Langehans from his birth in Gransee, Germany only a few weeks before the surrender of Germany during World War II, to the exodus of the Langehans family to America and of Klaus' experiences during the Vietnam war.

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9781450068024 | Xlibris Corp, April 26, 2010, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A Patriot from Gransee is a brief narrative of Klaus Langehans from his birth in Gransee, Germany only a few weeks before the surrender of Germany during World War II, to the exodus of the Langehans family to America and of Klaus' experiences during the Vietnam war.

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Product Description: In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity...read more

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9780299236243 | 1 edition (Univ of Wisconsin Pr, May 27, 2010), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this moving and funny memoir, award-winning playwright Guillermo Reyes untangles his life as the secretly illegitimate son of a Chilean immigrant to the United States and as a young man struggling with sexual repression, body image, and gay identity.

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Product Description: Born to illiterate peasants, Aisling Juanjuan Shen was the first in her village to go to college. Assigned to a low-paying government job, she left for southern China to find success. Her story embodies the changes in China in recent decades.

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9781569475867, titled "A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman" | Soho Pr Inc, July 1, 2009, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: "Like a suspense novel, this book is impossible to put down.

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9781569476482, titled "A Tiger's Heart: The Story of a Modern Chinese Woman" | Reprint edition (Soho Pr Inc, July 1, 2010), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Born to illiterate peasants, Aisling Juanjuan Shen was the first in her village to go to college.

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Product Description: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants...read more

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9780061985348 | Harpercollins, March 16, 2010, cover price $11.99

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9781400114504 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, March 16, 2010), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War.

A Jewish child's story of her life in Russia and as an immigrant in nineteenth century America

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9780691047225, titled "The Promised Land" | 2 reissue edition (Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1985), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A Jewish child's story of her life in Russia and as an immigrant in nineteenth century America
9780405128189 | Reprint edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1980), cover price $28.95 | also contains L’eclosion D’une Parole De Theatre: L’oeuvre De Michele Fabien Des Origines a 1985 | About this edition: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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9781409917335, titled "The Promised Land" | Ill edition (Dodo Pr, November 30, 2008), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Mary Antin (1881-1949) was an American author and immigration rights activist.
9781594623806, titled "The Promised Land" | Standard Pubns Inc, December 30, 2006, cover price $22.45
9781419179181, titled "The Promised Land" | Kessinger Pub Co, June 17, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780375757396, titled "The Promised Land" | Random House Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The author describes her Jewish American experience emigrating from Eastern Europe to Boston in the 1890s, and explores her struggle to balance her Old World heritage with her New World identity as an American citizen.
9780140189858, titled "The Promised Land" | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, February 1, 1997), cover price $15.00
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9780613501354 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $20.40 | About this edition: The author describes her Jewish American experience emigrating from Eastern Europe to Boston in the 1890s, and explores her struggle to balance her Old World heritage with her New World identity as an American citizen.

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Product Description: An unforgettable true story of courage, strength and survival during WWII. A man from Latvia shares his journey from leaving his homeland and family to reach freedom in the USA.

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9780741451729 | Infinity Pub, February 27, 2009, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An unforgettable true story of courage, strength and survival during WWII.

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Product Description: Uncried Tears is a story of a young girl in Vietnam whose family was torn apart when she was just seven years old. It is not a story about the war. It is about this young child who struggled to care for her younger sisters after being abandoned by her family...read more

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9781607038665 | Publishamerica Inc, February 15, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Uncried Tears is a story of a young girl in Vietnam whose family was torn apart when she was just seven years old.

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Product Description: About the Book  Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic workhas been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who read this true story of acculturation into American life...read more

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9780268004415 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, August 31, 1991, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author recalls his childhood journey from revolution-torn Mexico to the California coast

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9781439518021 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: About the Book  Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic workhas been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who read this true story of acculturation into American life.
9780833508218 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: The author recalls his childhood journey from revolution-torn Mexico to the California coast

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Product Description: Book by Accristo, Antoine E.

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9781436335171 | Xlibris Corp, August 1, 2008, cover price $29.99

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9781436335164 | Xlibris Corp, August 1, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Book by Accristo, Antoine E.

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Product Description: This book is about the life of a woman born and raised in Germany in the 1930s and early '40s. It relates her experiences as a German child, especially during the Second World War, and also as a young adult who found both great happiness and the sadness of dramatic loss...read more

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9781436324601 | Xlibris Corp, July 1, 2008, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: This book is about the life of a woman born and raised in Germany in the 1930s and early '40s.

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9781436324595 | Xlibris Corp, July 1, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This book is about the life of a woman born and raised in Germany in the 1930s and early '40s.

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Product Description: Determination and perseverance can overcome almost any of life's hurdles. Author Gopal Dorai relied on an abundant supply of these traits to endure the many obstacles that he encountered through the years. His compelling story chronicles the life of a gifted boy, born and raised in a remote village in India who pursues his dream of a better life through education...read more

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9781934696095 | Amer Literary Pr, April 3, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Determination and perseverance can overcome almost any of life's hurdles.

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