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by Jazmine Ulloa
Published Mar 2026
Read ReviewsFrom New York Times reporter Jazmine Ulloa, a sweeping human history of El Paso, revealing violence, power, and privilege at play in America's most famous border town.
by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2020 BookBrowse Award for Best Young Adult Novel
A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across the U.S.-Mexico border, inspired by current events.
A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves
by Jason DeParle
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsThe definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist.
by Marie Arana
Published Aug 2020
Read ReviewsAgainst the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone).
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsThe definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storyteller.
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA beautiful and heartrending novel about motherhood, resilience, and faith - a ripped-from-the-headlines story of two families on both sides of the American border.
by Joshua Davis
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsFour undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest...and a major motion picture.
by Leslie T. Chang
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsAn eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
Strawberry Fields (Two Caravans)
by Marina Lewycka
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future. First published in the UK ...
by Greg Mortenson, David O. Relin
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
by Carol Bergman
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsHumanitarian workers define courage in the 21st century. This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek to serve.
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Published May 2002
Read ReviewsReveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity--a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival.
by Kien Nguyen
Published Apr 2002
Read ReviewsThe biography of an Amerasian child in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. A wonderful book - highly recommended. "He writes with a voice of innocence that takes us into the heart and spirit of one person's undeserved and tragic childhood." USA Today.
by Nancy Hersage
Published Apr 2000
Read ReviewsA fictionalized thriller that explores the very real social, economic and political questions surrounding today's global trade in sex slaves.
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