A group of Japanese “mail order” brides arrive in California in the 1920s – from their journey to America, through marriage, work, childbirth and motherhood, until they and their entire communities are rounded up at the beginning of the...
A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora...
Upton Sinclair’s dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the twentieth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled...
Swamplandia! is the one-of-a-kind tale of Ava Bigtree and her family’s gator-wrestling theme park in the Everglades. When Ava’s mom, the park’s headlining attraction, passes away, the family struggles to keep the park open and out of the hands...
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. When the water and winds subsided, entire...
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