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In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
2) Papers
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Publisher
Fern Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Assembled from testimonials and interviews with current and former asylum seekers in France, as well as hearing records, administrative letters, and newspaper articles, Papers is a quietly monumental work of documentary art, a harrowing and enlightening portrayal of the modern refugee experience. Gathered here are the voices of men and women from around the world, united by the urgent need to leave their native country, risk their lives to make it...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A rare insight into how refugees from Nazi Germany kept their communities alive throughout the world through postcards and letters The Jewish flight from Nazi Germany was one of the largest diasporas the world has ever seen. Imagine leaving everything you love behind you and being separated from your family and friends without knowing when or if you will ever see them again. The only lifeline these refugees had was short postcards and letters to let...
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Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Mitch Albom creates his most unforgettable fictional character--Frankie Presto, the greatest guitarist to ever walk the earth--in this magical novel about the bands we join in life and the power of talent to change our lives. In his most stunning novel yet, the voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto, a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town. At nine years old, Frankie is sent...
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English
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From the New York Times -bestselling author: A story of one man's awakening and "a heartfelt reminder of the many people whose struggles are never known" ( The Plain Dealer ). Jesper Humlin, a poet of middling acclaim and underwhelming book sales, is facing a crisis. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, starts pitching and promoting the nonexistent book despite...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This is the compelling story of the 10,000 German and Austrian nationals who fled Nazi persecution to join the British in their fight against Hitler during the Second World War. Most were Jews but a significant number were political opponents of the Nazi regime and so-called 'degenerate artists'. They arrived in Britain between 1933 and 1939, and at the outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 became 'enemy aliens'. They volunteered to serve in the British...
Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"What does evangelism look like at its best? Evangelism can hurt sometimes. Well-meaning Christians who welcome immigrants and refugees and share the gospel with them will often alienate the very people they are trying to serve through cultural misconceptions or insensitivity to their life experiences. In No Longer Strangers , diverse voices lay out a vision for a healthier evangelism that can honor the most vulnerable -- many of whom have lived through...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England - yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on...
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
American Book Award Winner: A stunning memoir of surviving WWII Latviaand the long journey to healing that followed ( The New York Times Book Review ). A heartbreaking yet inspiring memoir of tragedy and healing, A Woman in Amber tells the story of how the occupation of Latvia during World War II affected a woman's relationship with her mother and husband for years to come (Tim O'Brien). Though Agate Nesaule eventually immigrated to the United States...
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Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A family's sacrifice - A nation's struggle A family's sacrifice ... A nation's struggle In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese families set out on perilous journeys in rickety boats to escape communist rule and seek out a better life. Kim Huynh's family was one of them. In this unique memoir, Kim traces his parents' precarious lives, from their poor villages in central and southern Vietnam, through relative affluence in Saigon,...
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Publisher
Sunbury Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Displaced is Linda Schwab's Holocaust memoir, a retelling of her experience surviving 18 months in a man-made cave, another year as an exile in Poland and Germany, and three years as a refugee in a displaced persons camp. Just six years old when a band of Nazi soldiers arrived in her tiny shtetl in Myadel, Poland, Linda observed atrocities no child ever needs to witness. With her parents and two brothers, during the summer of 1942, Linda was forcibly...
12) Low Road West
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Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When five teenage refugees are stranded in an irradiated Oklahoma wasteland while trying to survive an exodus from the war-torn East Coast, they take shelter in a ghost town that is much more than it seems. The strange, unnatural threats they face there will make them question what they think they know about death, about reality, and especially about family as they learn to rely on each other if they're ever going to make it to the sanctuary of San...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sometime spy Evan Tanner has accepted impossible assignments for many reasons: money, thrills, to have something to occupy his waking hours (twenty-four of them every day, in fact, since battlefield shrapnel obliterated his brain's sleep center). But this might be the first time he's put his life on the line ... for love. Tanner's agreed to smuggle a sexy Latvian gymnast -- the lost lady love of a heart-sick friend -- out of Russia. With the Cold...
14) A Week in Winter
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Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
A Week in Winter is the story of a group of refugees that have sought asylum at an American consulate in Eastern Europe. As the staff prepares for the arrival of the ambassador, events unfold and the fate of the refugees becomes increasingly uncertain.
15) Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help to save thousands more. Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike sponsored athlete on the US Olympic Team. Though most...
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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With a focus on the residents of three refugee camps, "Gabiam's nuanced study of Syria's Palestinian community is an engaging and informative read" ( Journal of Palestine Studies ). The Politics of Suffering examines the confluence of international aid, humanitarian relief, and economic development within the space of the Palestinian refugee camp. Nell Gabiam describes the interactions between UNRWA, the United Nations agency charged with providing...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In November 1938, about 30,000 German Jewish men were taken to concentration camps where they were subject to torture, starvation, and arbitrary death. This book tells the remarkable story of how the grandees of Anglo Jewry persuaded the British Government to allow them to establish a transit camp in Sandwich, in East Kent, to which up to 4000 men could be brought while they waited for permanent settlement overseas-known as the Kitchener camp. The...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Pulled from her hiding place in an old Saxon church, Lady Lily is forced to face the warrior who's been hunting for her - Radulf, the King's Sword, a man known as cold and heartless/merciless; a man whose name all fear to speak. But when she looks into his coal-dark eyes, it is not fear that makes her tremble, but desire. She may have to conceal her true identity to save her life, but there's little hope of shielding her heart.
Radulf is a proven...
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Publisher
City of Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Habiba, Aleksander, Malee, Elisa and Dinesh. They have left everything they have ever known and arrived in a classroom in a new country. Meet Grace, Jaylyn, Cameron, Miguel and Yu. They have never lived anywhere else. Hello! A Welcoming Story is the journey through the challenges that young refugees must navigate to find a sense of belonging in a new place. Flip it over and this two-books-in one also tells this story through the eyes of the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A gripping account of terror and escape.- New York Times Book Review The Fox Hunt tells one young man's unforgettable story of his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civil war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. WINNER: 2019 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS ; A 2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Born in the Old City of Sana'a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed...
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