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Russian at heart
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Olga Hawkes |
The Russian revolution left the orphaned Sonechka Balk destitute and destroyed her idyllic life in the Crimea. Aged 19 in 1924, she fled to Shanghai, where she became one of the thirty thousand White… |
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Refuge of the heart
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Ruth Logan Herne |
"District Attorney Mitchell Sanderson wanted for nothing and lost everything in a tragic accident. A dogged worker, Mitch's conviction rate earned him respect and trust. Now up for re-election, Mitch… |
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'Leaving Home'
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Ilsa Sharp |
Here, the lives of ten refugee women converge to illuminate the humanity behind the refugee experience - their stories expose the ordeals faced by so many refugees, as well as reveal the normality of… |
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Nethergate
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Norah Lofts |
Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father, Isabella de Savigny arrives at Nethergate, the Suffolk house of her cousin, hoping for sympathy and succour. I… |
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Piano angel
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Esther Woolfson |
Following the recurrence of a brain tumour, Mark Blum chooses to return to his native Glasgow to die, leaving behind in New York his architectural practice, and bewildered friends and family. The pro… |
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Gender, Violence, Refugees
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Ulrike Krause,Susanne Buckley-Zistel |
vi, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
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Articles of war
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Nick Arvin |
George Tilson is an 18 year old farmboy from Iowa. Enlisted in the Army during WW II he arrives at Normandy just after D-Day. In combat he witnesses a kind of brutality unlike any that he could have … |
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Little Bee
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Chris Cleave |
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. |
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