Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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-- Amazing gracep2007., Adults, Brilliance Audio Call No: AUD STE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
Includes Additional InfoSeries Title: Brilliance Audio on compact discSummary Note: In the aftermath of a San Francisco earthquake, the lives of four strangers will converge.
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By Bala, Sharon[2018]., Adults, Doubleday Call No: FIC BAL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks--and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis"--
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c1981., 5-8, Wanderer Call No: YM KEE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Nancy Drew mystery storiesSummary Note: Trouble plagues a student tour through Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a plot to smuggle refugee children across the Austrian border from Eastern Europe.
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[2018]., Adults, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: FIC COL Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: While Flora struggles with how to inform her ex-boss that she is carrying his baby, a doctor refugee from war-torn Syria embarks on his first Christmas season without his wife on the remote Scottish island of Mure.
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2009., Adult, Scribner Call No: FIC DIA Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Four young women, who survived the Holocaust, are haunted by their pasts while staying in the Atlit internment camp and find comfort in their friendships and shared experiences while struggling with the prospect of recreating themselves in a foreign country.
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c1999., 5.0; 5-8, Harcourt Brace Call No: Y MAZ Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
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-- Voices from the new Syrian diaspora.2024., Adult, Liveright Publishing Corporation Call No: HIST 956.9104 231 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In 2011, Syrians took to the streets demanding freedom. Brutal government repression transformed peaceful protests into one of the most devastating conflicts of our times, killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. The Home I Worked to Make takes Syria’s refugee outflow as its point of departure. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted across more than a decade, it probes a question as intimate as it is universal: What is home? With gripping immediacy, Syrians now on five continents share stories of leaving, losing, searching, and finding (or not finding) home. Across this tapestry of voices, a new understanding emerges: home, for those without the privilege of taking it for granted, is both struggle and achievement. Recasting 'refugee crises' as acts of diaspora-making, The Home I Worked to Make challenges readers to grapple with the hard-won wisdom of those who survive war and to see, with fresh eyes, what home means in their own lives." --publisher's website.
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1995., 5.6; 5-8, H. Holt Call No: J HIST 940.53 Edition: 1st Owlet ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author describes the circumstances in Germany after Hitler came to power that led to the evacuation of many Jewish children to England and her experiences as a young girl in England during World War II.
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©2021., Adults, Lake Union Publishing Call No: FIC SUL Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "In late March 1944, as Stalin’s forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear’s intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves—murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect 'pure-blood' Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. But after already living under Stalin’s horrifying regime, Emil and Adeline decide they must run in retreat from their land with the wolves they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom. Caught between two warring forces and overcoming horrific trials to pursue their hope of immigrating to the West, the Martels’ story is a brutal, complex, and ultimately triumphant tale that illuminates the extraordinary power of love, faith, and one family’s incredible will to survive and see their dreams realized." --book jacket.
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20190910., Adults, Harper Call No: FIC CLA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1936, the Nazi 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 when the Nazis’ take control. There is hope in the darkness, though. Truus Wijsmuller, a member of the Dutch resistance, risks her life smuggling Jewish children out of Nazi Germany to the nations that will take them. It is a mission that becomes even more dangerous after the Anschluss—Hitler’s annexation of Austria—as, across Europe, countries close their borders to the growing number of refugees desperate to escape. Tante Truus, as she is known, is determined to save as many children as she can. After Britain passes a measure to take in at-risk child refugees from the German Reich, she dares to approach Adolf Eichmann, the man who would later help devise the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” in a race against time to bring children like Stephan, his young brother Walter, and Žofie-Helene on a perilous journey to an uncertain future abroad.
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[2017], Young Adult, Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House Call No: YA MEA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Glittering Court novel Volume: #2Summary Note: When she gains entry into the Glittering Court, war refugee Mira continues to endure persecution while learning skills that help her earn anonymity, forging friendships that inspire her to hatch a daring but dangerous plan.
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2017., Young Adult, Penguin Books Call No: YA SEP Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Winter 1945. Four refugees. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies, war. As thousands desperately flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. But not all promises can be kept." -- Page [4] cover.
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2018., Riverhead Books Call No: FIC HOS Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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-- Stormblown[2019]., Ages 9-13, Delacorte Press Call No: YA COU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Alejandro worries about his great-uncle while helping guests at a resort, and in New Orleans, Emily worries about her sick brother, as a major hurricane rages, changing both their lives forever.
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2023., "Ages 4-8"--P. [2] of cover of read-along book, Viking Call No: PB GHA Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war. But war has come to their door once more, forcing them to flee. Even as her family is uprooted, Oraib makes a solemn promise to her beloved olive trees. She will see to it that their legacy lives on for generations to come"--
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c1990., Adult, Harbinger House Call No: BIOG 929 .2 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of how one woman survived the German conquest, Nazi horror, and postwar Soviet takeover of her country.
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c2008., Ages 3-6, Clarion Books Call No: YA SCH Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Henry, wishing to honor his brother Franklin's dying wish, sets out to hike Maine's Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but fate adds another companion--the Cambodian refugee accused of fatally injuring Franklin--and reveals troubles that predate the accident.