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All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
by Michael P Macdonald  
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All...
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A True Picture of Emigration
by Rebecca Burlent Publisher Comments On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western...
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Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America
by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism, in his own life and beyond. When David Trimble claimed recently that Irish republicans needed house-training, I felt the echo of my master's voice down through the ages, that of the...
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On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America
by Don Lago Publisher Comments WHEN his father developed Alzheimer's disease, Don Lago realized that the stories and traditions of his Swedish ancestors would be lost along with the rest of his father's memories. Haunted by this inevitable tragedy, Lago set out to fight back against...
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Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans
by Thomas Lynch Publisher Comments In 35 years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, this is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those Lynch calls "...
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Siberian Dream :Russ
by Irina Pantaeva Synopsis The tale of a courageous young woman. Irina Pantaeva was born in communist Siberia, where individuality was stifled. Her parents refused to join the Communist Party, and Irina, picked by a talent scout to star in a Soviet film, went on to conquer the...
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The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life
by Ernestine Bradley Publisher Comments In this moving and candid memoir we meet Ernestine Bradley, the wife of former senator and presidential hopeful Bill Bradley. She stood out among Senate wives: a German-born lover of languages and a transplant to America, Ernestine had a full-time career...
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Easter Rising: An Irish American Coming Up from Under
by Michael P Macdonald
Publisher Comments A powerfully redemptive story of escape from the Irish American ghetto. Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls: A Family Story from Southie told the story of the loss of four of his siblings to the violence, poverty, and gangsterism of Boston's Irish...
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Germans in Wisconsin (People of the Heartland)
by Richard H. Zeitlin Publisher Comments This best-selling book, first published in 1977, traces Wisconsin's German population from territorial days to the arrival of the intellectual "48ers" before the Civil War; helping found the Republican, Progressive, and various socialist and workers...
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Framing a Life: A Family Memoir
by Geraldine A Ferraro Publisher Comments Framing a Life is Geraldine Ferraro's touching memoir of her Italian American family. Like the frame on which her mother once crocheted beads to make a living, Framing a Life draws together a tapestry of immigrant family stories both past and present...
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My Grandfather's Book: Generations of an American Family
by Gary Gildner Publisher Comments On Gary Gildner's eleventh birthday, his Polish grandfather Steve Szostak was buried. Just before the undertaker closed the coffin, Gildner's grandmother Nelly quietly placed the book she had found her husband holding at his death in the coffin. "Always...
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Through Irish Eyes: Irish-Americans Share Their Wit & Wisdom
by Tracy Quinn Publisher Comments A delightful collection of quotes, from the hilarious to the poignant to the profound, from some of America's best-known and best-loved Irish Americans. Wise and witty, it demonstrates the wonderful way with words that has been passed down through...
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German-iowan Studies
by William Roba Publisher Comments Is America the new Germany? Focusing on Iowa, this book explores the hidden meaning of that question, and seeks its answer in the forgotten history of nineteenth-century migration. Between 1847 and 1881, more than 300,000 North Germans migrated to the...
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An Enduring Legacy
by John Bieter Publisher Comments In "An Enduring Legacy," brothers John and Mark Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheepherders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic...
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1234 5th Avenue
by Nina Lourik Synopsis 1234 Fifth Avenue is Nina Lourik's autobiographical account of her life as a Russian immigrant in America. Her story combines history with tragedy and blessings, sorrow and hope. The novel includes times of laughter, tears, depression, alcoholism...
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The European Texans (Texans All)
by Allan O Kownslar Publisher Comments "The European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German...
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Conversations with Papa Charlie: A Memory of Charles E. Smith
by David Bruce Smith Publisher Comments At first David Bruce wanted to write a traditional biography of his remarkable grandfather, a Russian Jew who immigrated as a child to America in 1911 and built a real estate empire here. But that format seemed to violate Papa Charlie's impatience with...
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Alleged sex and threatened violence :Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892
by Terence Emmons Publisher Comments This book deals with a sequence of lively and often bizarre episodes within San Francisco's Russian community set in motion in early 1888 by the arrival in San Francisco of a new Russian Orthodox bishop—and his entourage, which included some twenty...
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Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series #1: Boise Basques: Dreamers and Doers
by Glori Totoricaguena Publisher Comments Illuminating Basque migration and societal integration in Boise, Idaho, personal testimonies enrich this historical chronicle, from the first 19th-century immigrants to today's professionals and business owners. Originally published by the Basque...
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The Truth about the Cajuns
by Trent Angers Publisher Comments A 120-page paperback book that describes the French-Acadian, or Cajun, people with the accuracy and dignity to which they are entitled -- contrary to the shallow, stereotyping manner in which they have been depicted by many of the news media. This...
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