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"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
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"At once a literary crime novel and an intergenerational family drama, The Promise of the Pelican is set in the multicultural South, where justice might depend on the color of your skin and your immigration status. Hank Weinberg is a modern day Atticus Finch, recently retired as a defense attorney in Mobile, Alabama, and a Holocaust survivor, who fled the Nazis as a young child. With his daughter in rehab, he's now taking care of his special needs...
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In rural Virginia, Young and Pak Yoo run an experimental medical treatment known as the Miracle Submarine--a pressurized oxygen chamber that patients enter with the hopes of curing issues like autism or infertility. But when the device explodes, killing two people, a dramatic murder trial upends the Yoos' small community. Who or what caused the explosion? Was it the mother of one of the patients? Or was it Young and Pak, hoping to cash in on a big...
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2021.
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"Based on a true event, The Fortune Men tells the intimate, harrowing story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death. In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer. He is a father...
5) Illegal
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2009.
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Fingered for a crime he didn't commit, lawyer Jimmy Payne goes on the most terrifying run of his life, from bloody Mexicali to the bullet- riddled San Joaquin Valley. As he is joined by a foul-mouthed young Mexican teenager in search of his missing-and-undocumented mother, the unlikely, unlucky duo attempt to find answers against startlingly violent odds.
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