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“alejandra oliva”

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  • Rivermouth

    A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

    Best Nonfiction of 2023 - Kirkus“One of the most thoughtful meditations on our nation’s immigration policy in recent memory." —The Boston GlobeA chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' “immigration crisis”In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

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    Rivermouth

    A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

    Narrated by Angela Juarez ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and fluid relationship to the border, each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de asilo: palabras para personas en movimiento

    Translated by Alejandra Oliva ...
    A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisisAs millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia have led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circus obscures both histories of migration and longstanding definitions of words for people on the move, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Sorrowland

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    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

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    **"Narrator Karen Chilton gives a riveting performance in this genre-defying masterpiece...The echoes of Chilton's haunting and beautiful narration will reverberate long after this powerful audiobook is over." -- AudioFile MagazineA triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction**Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict ... Read more

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    All the Sinners Bleed

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    Narrated by Adam Lazarre-White ...

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    Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense!"Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping, timely tale—beautifully told." —AudioFile (Earphones Award winner)**The new novel from New York Times ... Read more

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    Crying in H Mart

    A Memoir

    Narrated by Michelle Zauner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist ... Read more

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    James

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    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

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    **PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE ... Read more

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    The Other Black Girl

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    **Now a Hulu Original Series“Riveting, fearless, and vividly original” (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.**Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee ... Read more

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  • Tell Me How It Ends

    An Essay in 40 Questions

    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unforgetting

    A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

    An LA Times Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Editors' Pick • A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books • A The Millions Most Anticipated Book of the Year"Gripping and beautiful. With the artistry of a poet and the intensity of a revolutionary, Lovato untangles the tightly knit skein of love and terror that connects El Salvador ... ... Read more

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  • Ideas to Postpone the End of the World

    by Ailton Krenak ...
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    “Ailton Krenak’s ideas inspire, washing over you with every truth-telling sentence. Read this book.” — Tanya Talaga, bestselling author of Seven Fallen FeathersIndigenous peoples have faced the end of the world before. Now, humankind is on a collective march towards the abyss. Global pandemics, extreme weather, and massive wildfires define this era many now call the Anthropocene.From Brazil comes ... Read more

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