The next ship home : a novel of Ellis Island / Heather Webb.
"Ellis Island, 1902: Two women band together to hold America to its promise: Give me your tired, your poor...your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... A young Italian woman arrives on the shores of America, her sights set on a better life. That same day, a young American woman reports to her first day of work at the immigration center. But Ellis Island isn't a refuge for Francesca or Alma, not when ships depart every day with those who are refused entry to the country and when corruption ripples through every corridor. While Francesca resorts to desperate measures to ensure she will make it off the island, Alma fights for her dreams of becoming a translator, even as women are denied the chance. As the two women face the misdeeds of a system known to manipulate and abuse immigrants searching for new hope in America, they form an unlikely friendship--and share a terrible secret--altering their fates and the lives of the immigrants who come after them. This is a novel of the dark secrets of Ellis Island, when entry to the land of the free promised a better life but often delivered something drastically different, and when immigrant strength and female friendship found ways to triumph even on the darkest days."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781638087595
- ISBN: 1638087598
- Physical Description: 558 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
- Publisher: Thorndike, ME : Center Point Large Print, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2022
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General Note: | Includes discussion questions. Includes a conversation with the author. Includes author's note with background information. |
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Genre: | Large print books. Historical fiction. |
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Dalton Community Library | LARGE TYPE WEBB (Text) | 50689010460755 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | LP WEB (Text) | 91084253 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
Highland Community Library | LP WEB (Text) | 35610001013064 | HGHM Large Print Books | Available | - |
Martinsburg Community Library | F Web (Text) | 1OMAR00090921J | Adult Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
Orwigsburg Area Free Public Library | LT WEB (Text) | 3OAPL00078352M | Large Type | Available | - |
Sinking Spring Library | WEB (Text) | 33249025564513 | Large Print Fiction | Available | - |
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Plated 2024: Donated by the members of the Jacobus Area Lioness Lions Club 2024
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Hughes Library | L.P. F WEB (Text) | 32378005219433 | Adult New Large Print | Checked Out | 05/17/2024 |