Immigration Romance

Special Edition with Historical Companion & Author’s Note From a forest-side cottage in rural Dalsland to the wide, smoke-streaked streets of 1870s Chicago, Elin: The Complete Journey tells the unforgettable story of one young woman’s quiet revolution—from survival to selfhood, from heartbreak to home. Born into hunger and hardship, Elin grows up in a Sweden still shadowed by famine and tradition. At seventeen, she boards a steamship alone to meet a fiancé she barely remembers, stepping into a future no one—least of all Elin herself—could have imagined. This sweeping historical ...

It's been several years since Carly Vega's parents were deported. Carly lives with her older brother, studies hard, and works the graveyard shift at a convenience store to earn enough to bring her parents back from Mexico.

With deep empathy, rigorous reporting, and the irresistible perspective of a true romantic, journalist Anna Lekas Miller spotlights couples around the world who confront frustrating immigration systems to be together—as she did to be with her husband. ​ We are told that love conquers all...

Forced to flee the death squads in his homeland, Ricky makes his way through Central America to Colorado while dodging immigration patrols and a death sentence if he's caught and deported. Along the way he meets an immigrant named Maria and falls in love. Together they travel to a country that's not what it appears to be.

The Orphan at Sea Book Seven in the Terry Town Series By Amy French She survived the ocean. But survival came at a cost. When sickness spreads through the crowded ship bound for America, Sophia watches helplessly as her entire family is taken from her before the voyage ends. By the time the ship reaches New York Harbor, she steps onto unfamiliar soil completely alone. With no one left to claim her, Sophia is sent to a strict New York orphanage where grief lingers in the halls and children are quietly sent away to unknown futures. There she meets Clara — a brave, warm-hearted girl who ...

With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness of winter, her family must join the largest exodus in human history to survive. As battle lines are drawn and East Prussia’s borders vanish beneath them, they leave their farm and all they know behind for an uncertain future. But Ilse also has Janusz, her family’s young Polish laborer, by her side. As they flee from the Soviet army, his enchanting folktales keep her mind off the cold, the hunger, and the horrors unfolding around them.

Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships...

Our love transcends time... Sailing on Titanic 2 was supposed to be a fun trip for my mom. It turned into a nightmare for me. When I fall into the pool and hit my head, I wake up not on Titanic 2 but on the real Titanic--the one that's about to sink in a couple of days. Thankfully, a young man is there to help me. Will is amazing. He's intelligent, caring, handsome... and about to die. Not to mention he was born in the 1800s! Convincing him I'm from 2025 is difficult. Convincing him that this unsinkable ship is about to go down is even harder. Can I convince Will to help me save lives ...

A decade apart, a painful secret—can two childhood sweethearts find their way back to a love that defies cultures and time? Lia Juma thought she’d buried the dreams of her heart long ago. But when she’s forced to return to her family’s summer cottage on Pike Bay, the life she’s...

I'm the leader of the free world. Commander-in-chief of the armed forces. No one dares defy me. The object of my affection is my subordinate. Someone wants me dead. But I'm fighting inner demons and secret desires. I'm gay. ***** “All I wanted was the pleasure and strength of another man. After three marriages, I still want it." “The most exciting thing I’ve ever known in life has been the past few weeks with you.” Enry’s ears melted in the calming voice of his second in command. After a shared three bottles of wine, he stepped into the abyss. As he looked into Enry’s eyes, his ...

When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history. A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern...

The Naik sisters escaped their traumatic past in Mumbai to come to the States, but their journeys have been vastly different. Simi is working toward a bright future as a pediatric nurse in a small town in Kentucky when Rupi shows up at her door in distress, on the run, and as always, dragging trouble in her wake. With Rupi’s safety in jeopardy, the sisters hatch a desperate plan to keep her in the country: Rupi must get married—and fast—even if it means Simi recruiting the man she’s been secretly dating as her sister’s groom. A perfect plan? Not quite. But there aren’t many alternatives.

A Time and New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year * New York Times Notable Book and Times Critic’s Top Book of 2018 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY * Elle * Bustle * Kirkus Reviews * Lit Hub * NPR * Oprah Daily The bestselling and critically acclaimed debut novel by Lisa Halliday is...

The English-language debut of the acclaimed international bestseller - Anywhere but Home crosses continents, cultures, and generations to tell a sweeping story of self-discovery, finding your own place in a new world, and the revelatory mysteries of being a family.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Language of Flowers comes her much-anticipated new novel about young love, hard choices, and hope against all odds. For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised...

They call him The Walrus. . . TV weatherman Wilson "The Walrus" Wigham notices some odd correlations between natural disasters and sociopolitical turmoil and finds himself swept up in a comical whirlwind of events that carries him from his little Wisconsin town to the great old country of India and all the way back again.

Michael usually concerns himself with basketball and hanging out with his friends, but every once in a while, his parents drag him to meetings and rallies with their anti-immigrant group. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school and turns out to be funny, smart - and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly his parents' politics seem much more complicated.

Leanna Rivera never told her friends where she went junior year in high school. Her family sent her back to Mexico to give birth and keep it a secret. They told her to forget about Carmelita, her brown-eyed baby girl, who died shortly after her adoption was final, leaving her with a box of ashes. Fourteen years later, Leanna receives a frantic phone call. Her daughter is alive and has run away to cross the US-Mexico border. With little to go on, Leanna hires a bodyguard to help her search for Carmelita. Axe Salvadori hides his secrets well. He also hides his attraction to Leanna, preferring...

Barely Missing Everything meets American Street in this “well-plotted, taut page-turner” (Booklist, starred review) that looks at the darker side of light-filled Jamaica and how a tragedy and missing drug money helplessly entangle the lives of two teens who want to change their fate. Deja is...