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Pulga has his dreams.
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Pequeña has her pride.
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"With poignant, exhausting lyricism and heart wrenching poetic prose, Jenny Torres Sanchez digs deep and shows us the throbbing, aching corazón - the hopeful, unbreakable spirit of the embattled immigrant. A book for the starving, lost soul." (Guadalupe García McCall, Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Under the Mesquite)
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In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi explores her life - as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.
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Full, poignant, purposeful
- By Brée on 08-21-19
By: Bassey Ikpi
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World
- By: Katie Coyle
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
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Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed 'Rapture,' all that's left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn't know who or what to believe. With her best friend Harp and a mysterious ally, Peter, Vivian embarks on a desperate cross-country road trip through a paranoid and panic-stricken America to find answers.
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juvenile
- By emily on 12-16-19
By: Katie Coyle
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Borders of the Heart
- By: Chris Fabry
- Narrated by: Chris Fabry
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J. D. Jessup finds his line in the desert near Tucson, as far from his home as the moon. He’s traded his guitar and the songs in his head for the daily grind of an organic farm - a mind-numbing existence that dulls the pain of his memories. His boss has one rule: if J. D. sees an illegal, call Border Patrol. But when an early morning ride along the fence line leads him to Maria, a beautiful young woman near death, J. D.’s heart pushes him toward another choice.
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Good Christian Fiction
- By Kathleen Yamauchi on 05-06-15
By: Chris Fabry
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The Marbury Lens
- By: Andrew Smith
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Jack gets drunk and finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time: he is kidnapped, but escapes, narrowly. The only person he tells is his best friend, Conner. When they arrive in London as planned for their summer break, a stranger hands Jack a pair of glasses. Through the lenses, he sees another world called Marbury. There is war in Marbury, which is a desolate and murderous place where Jack is responsible for the survival of two younger boys.
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Like an addiction, I just couldn't stop listening.
- By Gini McKellar on 11-24-10
By: Andrew Smith
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Alice Isn't Dead
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- Narrated by: Jasika Nicole
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Keisha Lewis lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice.
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Great story, but conditionally recommended.
- By Hayley Lambert on 11-02-18
By: Joseph Fink
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Prince Joe
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Media consultant Veronica St. John has been hired to teach a rugged Navy SEAL to impersonate a European prince who's been targeted by terrorists. But one conversation and Veronica knows there's no way she can turn streetwise New Yorker Joe Catalanotto into nobility. Joe, on the other hand, is confident he's got what it takes. Two days isn't a lot of time to get the job done...but it's enough time to fall in love.
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Prince Joe
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The Vanished Series, Books 1-3
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When the crows gather over a remote Navajo Reservation in the deep Southwest, it is a sign that the thin veil that separates our world from the one beyond is about to open. Without a barrier between life and death, things pass between both worlds. Some of them are good. Most of them are not.
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Going to slog through to the end
- By KatieReviewsStuff on 04-28-21
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After her father's funeral, Zoe moved to the big city with her mother to start over. But change always brings trials, and life in the city is not so easy. Money is tight, and Zoe's only escape, as has always been the case, is in her dreams - a world apart from her troubled real life where she can spend time with her closest companion: her lost brother, Valentine.
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Cool idea that wanders around.
- By Caseym on 04-03-16
By: Richard Kadrey
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
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Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- By Kathi on 03-15-13
By: Eleanor Morse
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Where Sea Meets Sky
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Joshua Miles has spent his early 20s spinning his wheels. Working dead-end jobs and living at home has left him exhausted and uninspired, with little energy to pursue his passion for graphic art. All that changes when he meets Gemma Henare, a vivacious out-of-towner from New Zealand. What begins as a one-night stand soon becomes a turning point for Josh. He can't get Gemma out of his head, even after she has left for home, and finds himself throwing caution to the wind for the first time in his life.
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Narration great, story boring
- By Desiree on 09-27-20
By: Karina Halle
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Lifted by the Great Nothing
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Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. He lives with his father, Rasheed, who is enamored of his concept of American culture - baseball and barbeques - and tries to shed his Lebanese heritage completely.
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Excellent
- By Cheyenne on 06-13-15
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In Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, set in 1978, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O'Connor, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and death, Phoebe retraces her steps from San Francisco across Europe, a quest which yields both complex and disturbing revelations about family, love, and Faith's lost generation.
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Too bad zero was not a choice...
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By: Jennifer Egan
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- Carolina O
- 02-23-23
Great story
Incredible story however, I wish that the speaker transition to a male when a male character was speaking.
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- Debra Elisa
- 09-27-20
important story!
I kept saying to myself, from middle school kids? but the realities are tough, and for a kid, especially with some guidance, this book is a powerful tale of what people go through to save their lives. It's a war story. Woven telling, two voices on the journey.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-20
heart breaking
loved it. thank you for writing this book. I hope many people read it so that emphaty towards immigrant children can grow.
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- WALTER N SHACKELFORD
- 10-18-22
A must read!
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez is a moving story about three immigrant children, Pulga, Chico, and Pequena. These children attempt to escape the dangers of Guatemala by finding a better life in America. Their perilous journey is fret with danger from coyotes, border patrol, a heartless American government and brutality of the terrain. Instead of an escape Pulga, Chico, and Pequena find death, a rebirth, and sorrows no child should endure. Jenny Torres Sanchez has written the 21st centuries version of the Grapes of Wrath and I dear say she could teach John Steinbeck a thing or two.
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- Darien
- 04-25-22
One of my new Favourites
This is by far one of my favourite stories I’ve read in a LONG time. I am currently reading this with my students, and every part of this novel is impactful. The experiences of the main characters are so real and relatable on so many levels. I sat there on the edge of my seat worried about Pulga, Pequeña, and Chico as they make their perilous journey. I highly recommend We Are Not From Here.
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- Meagan
- 05-17-22
heartbreaking... necessary
Such an amazing story and journey. I felt so much for these characters. The words are put together so vividly that you start to feel and hear the train. My husband made this same trip from Guatemala and the things he's described to me are very similar. Almost identical. He had a cousin to die on the train. I hope this books reaches the ears that NEED to hear it... perhaps it may open their hearts.
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- Hunter C. Rasmussen
- 07-21-23
A Terrible and Beautiful Window
This story gave insight into what a few stories of children fleeing homes in Central America May be like. Through dynamic characters who are deeply formed by the beauty and terrors of their home neighborhoods, and by the horrors and small kindnesses on their journey, Jenny Sanches Torres cultivates empathy in readers for the precious lives of people considered too small by the world. Powerful narrative imagery drives readers to reflect on themes of life and death, love and fear, hope and perseverance and grief.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-07-23
Heart wrenching
An absolutely heart wrenching story. I cried so many times listening. What a beautifully and truthful told story of what so many kids endure on their journey to a new life and escaping a lifeless life they left behind.
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- Linda
- 01-31-23
Unbelievable!
This is an amazing story of how these people struggle just to have the lives we take for granted every day. Such strength and courage these young people have that sacrifice all they are to be free and safe!
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- Liz Saunders
- 06-21-23
Heartbreaking
I was hooked from the beginning. I loved the story. One of my new favorite authors
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