Strangers at Home
Author: Carolyn D. Smith
Publisher: Aletheia
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13:
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Strangers at Home
Author: Yew-Foong Hui
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 904742686X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An online publication containing all volumes of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art/Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ). For this online edition all volumes (dating back to 1947) have been digitized and are now available to subscribers, for the period of their subscription. The online publication is updated annually with the most recent yearbook. Founded in 1947 the NKJ is a peer-reviewed journal, which has established an international reputation for publishing outstanding articles that reflect the variety and diversity of approaches to the study of Netherlandish art and culture. The NKJ aims to foster traditional art historical scholarship and to open up the field to innovative cross disciplinary developments. Each volume has been dedicated to a particular theme. The NKJ is ranked in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) as an International 1 (INT1) journal and is listed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters).
Strangers at Home
Author: Kimberly D. Schmidt
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-01-15
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780801867866
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Make Your Home Among Strangers
Author: Jennine Capó Crucet
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1250059666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lizet, a daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school, secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college. Her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami, and amid a painful divorce, her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and older sister, a newly single mom--without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live. Amidst this turmoil, Lizet begins college, but the privileged world of the campus feels utterly foreign to her, as does her new awareness of herself as a minority. Struggling both socially and academically, she returns home for a Thanksgiving visit, only to be overshadowed by the arrival of Ariel Hernandez, a young boy whose mother died fleeing with him from Cuba on a raft. The ensuing immigration battle puts Miami in a glaring spotlight, captivating the nation and entangling Lizet's entire family. Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with hard decisions that will change her life forever. Her urgent, mordantly funny voice leaps off the page to tell this moving story of a young woman torn between generational, cultural, and political forces; it's the new story of what it means to be American today.
A Stranger At Home
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1554515939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It’s been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. Coming ashore, Margaret spots her family, but her mother barely recognizes her, screaming, “Not my girl.” Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider. And Margaret is an outsider: she has forgotten the language and stories of her people, and she can’t even stomach the food her mother prepares. However, Margaret gradually relearns her language and her family’s way of living. Along the way, she discovers how important it is to remain true to the ways of her people — and to herself. Highlighted by archival photos and striking artwork, this first-person account of a young girl’s struggle to find her place will inspire young readers to ask what it means to belong.
Strangers in the House
Author: Candace Savage
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 177164205X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A renowned author investigates the dark and shocking history of her prairie house. When researching the first occupant of her Saskatoon home, Candace Savage discovers a family more fascinating and heartbreaking than she expected Napoléon Sureau dit Blondin built the house in the 1920s, an era when French-speakers like him were deemed “undesirable” by the political and social elite, who sought to populate the Canadian prairies with WASPs only. In an atmosphere poisoned first by the Orange Order and then by the Ku Klux Klan, Napoléon and his young family adopted anglicized names and did their best to disguise their “foreignness.” In Strangers in the House, Savage scours public records and historical accounts and interviews several of Napoléon’s descendants, including his youngest son, to reveal a family story marked by challenge and resilience. In the process, she examines a troubling episode in Canadian history, one with surprising relevance today. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute
Strangers
Author: Emma Tennant
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780811215305
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This Land of Strangers
Author: Robert Estle Hall
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1608323595
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Fatty Legs
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton
Publisher: Annick Press
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 1554515882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. She immediately dislikes the strong-willed young Margaret. Intending to humiliate her, the heartless Raven gives gray stockings to all the girls — all except Margaret, who gets red ones. In an instant Margaret is the laughingstock of the entire school. In the face of such cruelty, Margaret refuses to be intimidated and bravely gets rid of the stockings. Although a sympathetic nun stands up for Margaret, in the end it is this brave young girl who gives the Raven a lesson in the power of human dignity. Complemented by archival photos from Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s collection and striking artworks from Liz Amini-Holmes, this inspiring first-person account of a plucky girl’s determination to confront her tormentor will linger with young readers.
