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UNINA9910148639903321 |
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Autore |
Hayley Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Dazzling / / Elizabeth Hayley ; foreword by James Patterson |
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New York, NY : , : Little, Brown and Company, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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0-316-27641-3 |
0-316-27644-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (117 pages) |
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Collana |
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The Diamond Trilogy ; ; Book I |
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Soggetti |
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Food service hostesses |
Billionaires |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- A Preview of "Radiant" -- About The Author -- Newsletters -- Copyright. |
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Siobhan came to New York with a purpose: She wants to become a successful artist. To pay her bills in the meantime, she's the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She's fine with being on her own, until tech billionaire Derick takes her breath away. |
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UNINA9910779019903321 |
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Autore |
Shavarini Mitra K. <1962-> |
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Desert roots [[electronic resource] ] : journey of an Iranian immigrant family / / Mitra Karbassi Shavarini |
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El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Collana |
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The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society |
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Disciplina |
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Iranian Americans |
Iranian Americans - Cultural assimilation |
Immigrants - Family relationships - United States |
Return migration - Iran |
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Iran Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Desert Roots; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ghorbat; Chapter 2: Eshgh; Chapter 3: Tasbih; Chapter 4: Shimr; Chapter 5: Vatan Parast; Chapter 6: Curse; Chapter 7: Soghra; Chapter 8: Brother; Chapter 9: Kambiz; Chapter 10: Doors; Chapter 11: Iran |
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Desert Roots is the true story of the author's parents who, after being self-imposed exiles from their native Iran for 33 years, decided to leave the United States and return to their homeland. In this family biography, Shavarini explores the issues that brought them to America-and eventually drew them back home again. The experiences of her family will help readers understand the struggles many Iranians-those living in Iran and abroad-have faced. Threaded throughout the story are universal themes that connect readers to the many characters within: a mother trying to raise her children in a ne |
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