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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With World War I raging in Europe, eleven-year-old Anna is thrilled to learn that her cousin Tania is coming from Russia to stay with Anna's family on the lower East Side of New York, and although Tania is shy and withdrawn when she arrives, her love of cats helps her adjust to her new family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side to Siberia to find the missing girl.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
"An extraordinarily imaginative and immersive novel, this one set in New York from 1911-1925"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--
New York City, 1939: At the height of the Great Depression, a time when President Roosevelt is trying to keep America out of World War II, Giddy Brodsky is lucky to have a job as a cigarette girl at a Manhattan jazz club. Nevertheless, she dreams of establishing a cosmetics...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Giovanna Costa, reeling from personal tragedies, tries to make a new life for herself at the turn of the twentieth century in New York City's Little Italy. Her modest success is rewarded with the attention of the notorious Black Hand, a gang of brutal extortionists led by Lupo the Wolf.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Nueva York, 1936. Tras la inesperada muerte de su padre, Victoria, Mona y Luz Arenas heredan El Capitán, una pequeña casa de comidas situada en la calle Catorce, en el corazón de Little Spain. Recién llegadas de Málaga, solas ante un destino incierto en un país absolutamente desconocido, las tres hermanas se abrirán paso decididas a convertir sus sueños en realidad. Victoria, la más cauta, contrae matrimonio por conveniencia. Mona, la más...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Relates, in Spanish and English, a telephone conversation in which young Estrellita, who has recently moved to Brooklyn, New York, tells her grandmother, who still lives in Puerto Rico, all about her adventures in and near Manhattan.
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