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The middle of everywhere : the world's refugees come to our town / Mary Pipher.
LIBRA JV6601 .P56 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pipher, Mary Bray.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--United States.
- Refugees.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 390 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, [2002]
- Summary:
- The bestselling author explores the sagas, sorrows, and dreams of America's newest citizens and how their struggles and hopes reaffirm the American dream.
- Contents:
- Cultural collisions on the Great Plains
- The beautiful laughing sisters-an arrival story
- Into the heart of the heartland
- All that glitters...
- Children of hope, children of tears
- Teenagers
- Mohammed meets Madonna
- Young adults
- "Is there a marriage broker in Lincoln?"
- Family
- "A bundle of sticks cannot be broken"
- African stories
- Healing in all times and places
- Home-a global positioning system for identity
- Building a village of kindness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-371) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0151006008
- OCLC:
- 48046316
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