Fabulous Fiction Firsts #121
Wendy Lee's accomplished debut Happy Family* explores the immigrant experience and what it means to belong.Hua Wu exchanges proverty in Fuzhou with loneliness and back-breaking restaurant work in New...
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A Map of Home* by Ann Arbor author Randa Jarrar hits the bookstores today. Critics are calling this fiction debut “sparkling”, “intimate, perceptive and very, very funny”. It’s the story of Nidali, an...
View ArticleFabulous Fiction Firsts #167
In Repeat After Me*, (Ann Arbor native) Rachel DeWoskin, author of the laugh-out-loud funny and poignant Foreign Babes in Beijing: behind the scenes of a new China impresses readers and critics alike...
View ArticleU.S. Citizenship: An Overview
passport imageAre you interested in becoming a U.S. Citizen or want to learn about the process? Join us this Thursday, February 18 at 7:00 pm at our Traverwood Branch to hear Tracy Schauff, Esq. from...
View ArticleSo I Come to America: Detroit Pre-World War I Immigrants
So I Come to America: Detroit Pre-World War I ImmigrntsThe exhibit So I Come to America tells the story of pre-World War I immigrants through documentary photographs and text panels. Between 1980 and...
View ArticleOperation Pedro Pan
This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the airlift that eventually brought 14,000 unaccompanied children from Cuba to this country. While Miami celebrates with a Conference and Fiesta, you can read...
View ArticleThinking of Becoming a U.S. Citizen?
If you are, classes will start soon at Jewish Family Services. This robust curriculum includes class instruction on Preparing for the Citizenship Test, Civics-based English Language Instruction and...
View ArticleHappy Polish American Heritage Month!
Cześć!Celebrate Polish American Heritage Month (ongoing throughout October) at the AADL! This annual event was first started in 1981 and celebrates Polish history, culture and pride, as well as the...
View ArticleNaturalization: A Step To Citizenship With Attorney Ruby Robinson
Are you, or is someone in your family, one of the 140,000-plus lawful permanent residents living in Michigan who are eligible to naturalize today? Did you want to begin the steps to become a citizen?...
View ArticleImmigration
Citizenship and Immigration CanadaCitizenship and Immigration (FirstGov)Green Cards (U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)Immigration (Library of Congress American Memory)Immigration Law...
View ArticleFairy Tales and Journeys Across the Sea
Set in 19th century Norway, West of the Moon tells the story of 13 year old Astri, who has just been sold to a cruel goat farmer by her greedy aunt. Clever and determined, Astri makes a daring escape...
View ArticleMichigan Notable Book Author and U-M Professor Sally Howell Discusses Her...
Join us to hear Michigan Notable Books author Sally Howell speak about the history of Islam in Detroit, a city that is home to several of the nation’s oldest, most diverse Muslim communities.In the...
View ArticleNavigating the Immigration Experience: Author Saundra Amrhein Discusses Her...
Join us as author Saundra Amrhein shares life stories depicted in her book, "Green Card Stories," including the legal, social, emotional, financial, and spiritual obstacles that mirrors what immigrants...
View ArticleGreen Card Stories
Join us as author Saundra Amrhein shares life stories depicted in her book, "Green Card Stories," including the legal, social, emotional, financial, and spiritual obstacles that mirrors what immigrants...
View ArticleA Look Back, a Step Forward
How do you write about recent, disastrous history in a middle-grade book? And why? Jewell Parker Rhodes answers both of these questions in her new book, Towers Falling. This isn't the first book in...
View ArticleFabulous Fiction Firsts #618 “All Americans have something lonely about them....
Two of the most anticipated debuts this fall take readers deep into the lives of immigrant families. The Wangs vs. the World * by Jade Chang follows an Chinese-American family as it tumbles from riches...
View ArticleWashtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights TEEN GROUP
Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, or WICIR has long been a champion for our immigrant community by providing advocacy, information and legal assistance. Recently this group has...
View ArticleLove in one day
The Sun is Also A StarNational Book Award FinalistIn her second novel for young adults, The Sun is Also A Star, Nicola Yoon (Everything, Everything) takes an intricate and varied look at the immigrant...
View ArticleThe Journey: Books on Refugees and Immigration for Kids
If you want to explain the current refugee crisis to a little one, the new picture book The Journey, by Francesca Sanna, is a wonderful place to start. This gentle and moving book is narrated by a...
View ArticleThe Human Heart of Immigration
Lucky BoyIgnacio is a boy with two mothers and two names. He is “Nacho,” to his birth mother, Soli, and “Iggy” to his foster mother, Kavya. In her touching and timely new novel, Lucky Boy, Shanthi...
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