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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
2) Kind of kin
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When her father is tossed in jail for hiding a barn full of undocumented Mexicans, her ten-year-old nephew disappears, and her son comes home, bringing trouble with him, Sweet is driven to desperate actions to fix things, which tests her family, friends,and neighbors in unexpected ways.
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Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's...
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Tyndale House Publishers
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J.D. Jessup, having left his painful past and music for a job on a Tucson, Arizona, organic farm, unknowingly unleashes a chain of deadly events after he decides to hide a beautiful illegal alien, who was on the verge of death, instead of calling Border Patrol.
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2023.
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Nonbinary teen Ander is ready to leave their family's taquería and focus on their art, but when Santi, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, begins to work at the restaurant, the two teens spark a romance made complicated by immigration police.
The Santos Vista neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is all Ander Martí́́nez has ever known. His family's taquería inspired them as a muralist, and, as they get ready to leave for art school, it's all...
7) Mosquito
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Beacon Press
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2022.
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English
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"Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of an African-American truck driver's accidental yet growing involvement in "the new underground railroad," a sanctuary movement for Mexican immigrants"--
8) Just say yes
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Henry Holt and Company
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2024.
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English
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When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
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Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
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[2022]
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English
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After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
10) I am not alone
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Scholastic Inc
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2023.
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English
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Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.
11) Multo
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Polis
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2023.
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English
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Filipino-American bounty hunter Domingo has made a career of catching criminal undocumented immigrants. He’s the best in the business —a nd it isn’t lost on him that he’s so good because of his similarities to his targets. Despite Domingo’s claims that he is unsympathetic to their plight, yet spends his spare moments on stakeouts and in between jobs writing a book of advice for aspiring immigrants. Brash, funny, and candid, he compiles the...
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Pantheon Books
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[2023]
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English
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"Who is Yahya Bas? Revolutionary poet, notorious jihadist, misbegotten son, self-styled idiot-boy. When the enigmatic Yahya finds himself languishing in a UK detention center after fleeing the conflict in Syria, he has many questions to face. What was he doing in the desert? Why did he betray his country? What led him to to write the incendiary verses that launched him to international infamy? Mister, his interrogator, wants answers. So Yahya resolves...
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DC Comics
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[2021]
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English
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"Jessica Cruz has done everything right. She's a dedicated student, popular among her classmates, and has a loving family that has done everything they can to give her a better life in the United States. While Jessica is a part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, allowing her to go to school and live in the U.S., her parents are undocumented. Jessica usually worries for her parents, but her fears and anxiety escalate as a mayoral...
14) Resolute
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Ace
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[2022]
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English
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"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary must battle dangers both within and without the Alliance, in this exciting continuation of the New York Times bestselling series. Geary knows that some political factions in the Alliance were just trying to get rid of him when he was assigned to escort a diplomatic and scientific mission to the far reaches of humanity's expansion into the galaxy . . . and beyond. But he views his mission as both a duty and an opportunity...
15) Defiance
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DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi"--
"In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild, and that region is in confusion. Ready to hand is an age-old feud in the west, where the Master of Ashidama Bay has long hated the Edi people of the north shore and equally hated the Aishidi'tat...
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
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