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Every Day Lasts A Year
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Richard S. Hollander,Nechama Tec,Christopher R. Browning |
Richard Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew - his father's … |
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The newcomers
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Helen Thorpe |
Follows the lives of twenty-two immigrant teenagers from nations devastated by drought or famine or war, over the course of their first school year in America. The talented and endlessly resourceful … |
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The girl who smiled beads
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Clemantine Wamariya |
It was 1994, and in 100 days, more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and sister Claire spent the next six years wandering t… |
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50 children
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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… |
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The Nazis next door
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Eric Lichtblau |
"The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, a… |
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The middle of everywhere
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Mary Bray Pipher |
Over the past decade, Mary Pipher has been a great source of wisdom, helping us to better understand our family members. Now she connects us with the newest members of the American family-refugees. I… |
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Four Girls From Berlin
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Marianne Meyerhoff |
Lotte Meyerhoff thought she had lost everything when she came to the United States after escaping from an internment camp: her beloved Berlin home, and her past. But when a mysterious package arrived… |
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