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1	The Hundred Dresses more books like this by Estes A story about Wanda, who wore the same faded dress to school every day but claimed to have a hundred dresses at home. This tender and lovely story has beautiful full-color illustrations that brilliantly convey the feeling and overtones of the story. Newbery Honor Book. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £2.01! \| first editions
2	Errors and Omissions more books like this by Paul Goldstein From one of the foremost experts in the country on intellectual property law comes a gripping legal thriller of depth and complexity that draws on historical fact and legal scholarship for its unmistakable authenticity. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	In America more books like this by Susan Sontag In 1876, a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travels to California to found a "utopian" commune. The commune fails, and most of the group go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. see all copies from £2.87! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Hoopi Shoopi Donna more books like this by Suzanne Strempek Shea From Polish-American author Suzanne Strempek Shea, a novel about a young accordion-player, her embattled relationship with her adored father, and an all-girl polka band. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Selling the Lite of Heaven more books like this by Suzanne Strempek Shea The dutiful daughter of Polish-Catholic parents works at the Fast Foto, watching other people's lives develop into full color. When her fiance leaves her at the altar, she is left with only a diamond ring. The local Pennysaver announces "The lite of heaven isn't as brite as this engagement ring", which encourages her to begin her journey to true ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Ellis Island Christmas more books like this by Maxinne Rhea Leighton En route to America from Poland, Krysia and her mother discover that the ocean voyage is long and stormy, but finally, on Christmas Eve, the weary passengers crowd on deck to see the Statue of Liberty. As they approach the dock, they see long lines of people waiting to enter the new world. Will Krysia and her mother be allowed to stay? Powerful ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Traitors & True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880-1939 more books like this by Karen Majewski DURING Poland's century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland's reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity. Polish-American immigrant writers revealed their persistent, passionate engagement with these issues, as they used their work to define and consolidate an ... see all copies from £6.23! new only from £8.65!
8	Theodore Roosevelt: Letters from a Young Coal Miner more books like this by Jennifer Armstrong Fifteen-year-old Frank Kovacs, a Polish immigrant working in the coal mines of eastern Pennsylvania, begins a correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt after he assumes the presidency on September 14, 1901. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £7.51!
9	Polish Roots : Korzenie Polskie more books like this by Rosemary A. Chorzempa see all copies from £11.05! new only from £17.71!
10	First farm in the valley more books like this by Anne Pellowski Anna, the American-born daughter of Polish immigrants, longs to escape the rigors of Wisconsin farm life to visit the romanticized Poland of her dreams. see all copies from £5.10!
11	Winding Valley Farm more books like this by Anne Pellowski A young girl shares pleasures and disappointments with the other members of a large Wisconsin farm family in the early twentieth century. see all copies from £5.70! first editions
12	Los Cien Vestidos more books like this by Eleanor Estes A story about Wanda, who wore the same faded dress to school every day but claimed to have a hundred dresses at home. This tender and lovely story has beautiful full-color illustrations that brilliantly convey the feeling and overtones of the story. Newbery Honor Book. see all copies from £5.49! new only from £6.73!
13 view cover	Jerzy Kosinski: 9a Biography more books like this by James Park Sloan Kosinski, enigmatic, world-famous, the author of intense, autobiographical work, who was also accused of plagiarism, committed suicide in 1991. James Park Sloan was a friend of Kosinski's, who knew the difference between the public and the private man. With access to Kosinski's papers, interviews with his family and friends, and research in ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Time Between Trains more books like this by Anthony Bukoski Welcome to Superior, Wisconsin, home to a declining population, often-dismal weather, and dying ethnic communities. Despite the ore dust blanketing the city, miracles occur here. In the title story, a Jewish train track inspector discovers a magical place behind the house of a lonely Polish schoolteacher; in "Closing Time," an accordion player at ... see all copies from £6.37! new only from £13.51! \| first editions
15 view cover	In the Days of Simon Stern more books like this by Arthur A. Cohen Nathan, a blind Jewish scribe, tells the story of the coming of the Messiah in the person of one Simon Stern--from his birth on the Lower East Side, through his career as a millionaire dealer in real estate, to his building of a refuge for the Jewish remnant of World War II. "A majestic work of fiction that should stand world literature's test of ... see all copies from £3.03! new only from £21.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Recovered land more books like this by Alicia Nitecki Alicia Nitecki was born in Warsaw to a Catholic family that was active in the resistance movement. Following the Nazi conquest of Poland, she and her relatives were dispersed to German prisoner-of-war, labor, and concentration camps. In this book, she revisits the places that have formed her and confronts a past that has haunted her: Warsaw during ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £24.07! \| first editions
17 view cover	Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922 more books like this by Dominic A Pacyga, PH.D. How did working-class immigrants from Poland create new communities in Chicago during the industrial age? This book explores the lives of immigrants in two iconic South Side Polish neighborhoods--the Back of the Yards and South Chicago--and the stockyards and steel mills in which they made their living. Pacyga shows how Poles forged communities on ... see all copies from £7.74! new only from £7.74!
18 view cover	Swamp Gas more books like this by Nicole Paolini A group of Polish Americans in New Orleans decide it's time one of their own gets into politics, and they back a lawyer named Lana Pulaski in the election for state attorney general. This wacky trip through the machinations of local politics takes on not only elections, lawyers, and the South, but a number of other targets before it reaches its ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
19	In the Days of Simon Stern: A Novel, more books like this by Arthur Allen Cohen see all copies from £5.46! new only from £71.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas more books like this by T Lindsay Baker see all copies from £10.21! new only from £13.63! \| first editions
21 view cover	My Name is Million: An Illustrated History of the Poles in America more books like this by W S Kunicizak, W S Kuniczak This book is the story of those millions of Polish Americans whose quest for the American dream began in the blast furnaces, forges, quarries, and coal pits of the American Midwest-those whose dreams of and whose role in American life have, until now gone unrecognised. see all copies from £6.99! new only from £8.19!
22 view cover	Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories more books like this by Ellen Slezak The stories in this affecting debut collection are populated by the sober, self effacing members of Detroit's Polish-Catholic working class. Linked by place and characters, the stories create a world that feels both familiar and strange. see all copies from £2.73! new only from £28.84! \| first editions
23	Fifty Years of Eternal Vigilance and Other Stories: And Other Stories more books like this by Carolyn Thorman see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46! \| first editions
24	Winter Eyes: A Novel about Secrets more books like this by Lev Raphael, Ph.D. From an award-winning writer comes a haunting and remarkable novel about secrets, silence, and revelations. The terror of the past controls and divides the immigrant Borowski family, and the silence about the past separates their American-born son not only from his family but from himself--until he comes to learn the terrible secrets of his family ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £17.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Polish Americans more books like this by Rachel Toor Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Poles, actors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £12.29! \| first editions

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