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Under a starless sky Under a starless sky Banafsheh Serov From the streets and bazaars of Tehran to the moonlit Turkish mountains, Under A Starless Sky is a beautiful memoir about one family's extraordinary journey. Banafsheh is eight when the revolution be… OL11984892W
Courageous journey Courageous journey Ayuel Leek Deng Shares the story of a pair of Sudanese youths whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the crisis in Darfur, control of limited oil reserves, and radical Islamic terrorism, in a tale that follows the d… OL13749775W
Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders Beyond The Kindertransport Throw Your Feet Over Your Shoulders Beyond The Kindertransport Frieda Stolzberg Korobkin The remarkable story of a six-year-old girl who, in the winter of 1938, is uprooted overnight from her rabbinic family in Vienna, and sent on the Kindertransport to England. OL17449915W
The prince of Los Cocuyos The prince of Los Cocuyos Richard Blanco A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his p… OL17900743W
Rescuing the children Rescuing the children Deborah Hodge Discusses the efforts of the Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from Nazi occupied countries before the start of World War II. OL18143559W
Illegal Illegal Andrew Donkin,Eoin Colfer "Ilegal es un relato sobre la irreductible lucha de un niño, Ebo, por alcanzar una nueva vida y reunirse con su hermana, ausente desde hace meses. Ahora su hermano también ha desaparecido y Ebo sabe … OL19740915W
Other Words for Home Other Words for Home Jasmine Warga As Jude weaves her way through a journey of being an immigrant, her pregnant mother, and leaving all she has ever known behind. As she discovers america, "*What will happen to Issa? And Babi?*" Read … OL19912651W
50 children 50 children Steven Pressman Based on the acclaimed HBO documentary, the astonishing true story of how one American couple, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, transported fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria to America in 19… OL19975945W
The silent boy The silent boy Taylor, Andrew Paris, 1792. Terror reigns as the city writhes in the grip of revolution. The streets run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine. Edward Savill, working in London as agent for a w… OL20009821W
Desterrados Desterrados Alfredo Molano Written in the form of short stories, but including true accounts of prevalent conditions in Colombia. OL2179245W
Miami y mis mil muertes Miami y mis mil muertes Carlos M. N. Eire Presents the story of the author's exile in America, where his brother and he relocated as youths from their revolution-torn home in Cuba, struggled with the loss of their cultural identity, and accl… OL24285848W
A place of safety A place of safety Helen Black The rape of a young asylum seeker plunges family care lawyer Lilly Valentine into the toughest case of her life. 14-year-old Anna lives in Hounds Place, a hostel in Bedfordshire for youngsters seekin… OL24292227W
When the stars fall to earth When the stars fall to earth Rebecca Tinsley " ... about five young people trying to make sense of their changing world in a time of war. As they lose their families and homes, they find new friends who help them rebuild their lives. Torn free … OL24308009W
The lost boys of Natinga The lost boys of Natinga Judy Walgren Describes daily life at Natinga, a refugee camp and school established in 1993 in southern Sudan for boys forced from their homes by that country's Civil War. OL2707181W
Pied Piper Pied Piper John Boyne,Nevil Shute The novel by Nevil Shute. As the German army overruns France . An old Englishman returning to Britain agrees to escort two children to London. Trains, buses, hotels fail him and each shift in his pla… OL2779805W
Fragile delivery Fragile delivery Phillip R. Wise "Fragile Delivery: The Operation Babylift Crash is about the horrible C-5A Galaxy Crash as it was attempting to airlift orphans out of Vietnam on April 4,1975. It is the story of the life of survivin… OL28597900W
Of Beetles and Angels Bookmarks Of Beetles and Angels Bookmarks Mawi Asgedom.,Mawi,Mawi Asgedom An autobiography of a boy who, at the age of three, fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother and brother to a Sudanese refugee camp, and later moved to Chicago and earned a scholarship t… OL5699561W
Human rights overboard Human rights overboard Linda Briskman "In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen's inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australian immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had… OL6078976W
Earth and Ashes Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi "When the Soviet Army arrives in Afghanistan, the elderly Dastaguir witnesses the destruction of his village and the death of his clan. His young grandson Yassin, deaf from the sounds of the bombing,… OL7922036W
Weeds Like Us Weeds Like Us Gunter Nitsch The uprooting of seven million civilians – women, children, and elderly men – from their homes in the German provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia following World War II is largely unkno… OL8807695W
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