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Description not available.Luisa de la Cueva and her family leave their home on a small Caribbean island and try to start a new life in the barrios of New York. AUTHOR: Paula Fox
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Russian Immigrants, 1860-1915 by Helen Frost
Description not available.Discusses the reasons Russian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. AUTHOR: Helen Frost
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Stuart Hides Out by Lydia Halverson, Susan Hill
Description not available.Despite being friends with Snowbell the cat, Stuart finds it difficult to always be so cheery around someone so typically cranky and thus gives his feline friend the space he needs from time to time. Simultaneous. AUTHOR: Lydia Halverson, Susan Hill
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Italians by Bruno Barbey, Tahar Ben Jelloun
Description not available.Offers portraits of Italians from all walks of life with subjects including priests, prostitutes, beggars, and mafiosi. AUTHOR: Bruno Barbey, Tahar Ben Jelloun
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Lorenz on Mount Fuji by Franz De Waal
This collection of anecdotes about primate behavior draws on observations of individual animals by researchers who have come to the conclusion that some behaviors are passed on by the social group--and thus fall under the category of culture. AUTHOR: Franz De Waal
PUBLISHER: Basic Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
In this lyrical novel, first published in French in 1992, a young man named Alyosha Yevdokimov reminisces about his childhood in St. Petersburg, where his family and their neighbors, the Zingers, live in an apartment house. While Alyosha, with young Arkady Zinger, is at Soviet summer camp, both their fathers die. AUTHOR: Andrei Makine, Geoffrey Strachan
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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