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001			on1377540780
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005			20230616102549.0
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008			230427t20232022meu d 000 f eng d
010			_a 2023932202
020			_a9781638087595 _q(hardback : alk. paper)
020			_a1638087598
035			_a(OCoLC)on1377540780
040			_aCPLPT _beng _erda _cCPLPT
043			_an-us-ny _an-us-nj
050		4	_aPS3623.E3917 _bN49 2023
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223/eng/2019
100	1		_aWebb, Heather, _d1976 December 30- _eauthor. _9138172
245	1	4	_aThe next ship home : _ba novel of Ellis Island /
250			_aCenter Point Large Print edition.
264		1	_aThorndike, Maine : _bCenter Point Large Print, _c2023.
264		4	_c�2022
300			_a558 pages (large print) ; _c23 cm
500			_aRegular print version previously published by Sourcebooks.
500			_aIncludes discussion questions, author's note with background information, and interview with the author.
520			_a"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."--
610	2	0	_aEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) _vFiction. _9138173
650		0	_aEmigration and immigration _vFiction.
650		0	_aFriendship _vFiction.
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction.
650		0	_aCorruption _vFiction.
650		0	_aDiscrimination _zUnited States _vFiction. _9138174
650		0	_aImmigrants _zUnited States _vFiction.
650		0	_aLarge type books.
651		0	_aUnited States _xImmigration and emigration _vFiction. _9138175
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft
655		7	_aLarge print books. _2lcgft
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