Helen Plum Library

Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar caricatures fostered by popular culture, she tells the stories of Sicilian workers imported to replace the labor of freed slaves, the grim realities from which most immigrants came, the lynchings of Italian Americans, and the first uses of the word "mafia." Laurino shows how Italian...

"We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history"--

"Determined to reevaluate her life, Jude Murray leaves her job as a psychology professor and flies clear across the Atlantic to Ireland for six months with the intention of writing a paper on Irish folklore. After learning to survive without a microwave or dishwasher, Jude settles in to work on her paper, immersing herself in Irish folklore and legend. Then she discovers that she's living with a ghost. She also discovers the wild good looks of Aidan...

Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.

"A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city--and confront a dark episode in its history in the process

Cadence Lim, an important part of the sales team at Prism Realty, sees her friendship with Matt Escanilla, a top broker, escalate into something more when she pretends to be his girlfriend at a family gathering Cadence Lin was a behind-the-scenes number cruncher before becoming an integral part of the sales team at Prism Realty. Her favorite coworker and co-conspirator is Matt Escanilla, a top broker who is constantly being nagged by his Filipino...

In the delightfully small Pocket Poets format, a selection of the poems of Langston Hughes -- one of America's greatest popular poets since Walt Whitman. From the publication of his first book in 1926, Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America, the first to commemorate the experience of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, this volume is a treasure...

An American searches for her Irish ancestors to learn more about her powers and break an ancient curse