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81) Otomo
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 84 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 29 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a group of 1434 Polish refugees from the Soviet Russia, including a few hundred orphans, arrived in an abandoned ranch of Santa Rosa at the invitation of the Mexican President. Santa Rosa, near Leon, Mexico became their home for the few years to come. Earlier in December 1942, Prime Minister of Polish Government in Exile - General Władysław Sikorski arrived in Mexico to sign an agreement with President of Mexico Avila Camacho to set up such...
83) Go, went, gone
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xvi, 207 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina has been called the Oskar Schindler of Africa for the thousands of lives he saved during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. His story was so inspirational, in fact, that it was made into an Academy Award nominated film: 'Hotel Rwanda.' This autobiography explores his life and relates the anguish of those 100 days inside the hotel while machete-wielding mobs were on a murderous rampage outside.
85) Storm blown
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages : color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 50 min. 22 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
This documentary looks at the daily lives of a number of Afghan boys from the MV Tampa, now living in Mangere, Auckland. Shot in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Nauru and New Zealand, it traces the circumstances that led to their arrival in New Zealand and the reunion process they have been undergoing as their family members are resettled in New Zealand. --Kanopy.
Author
Publisher
Huntington Graphics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This beautiful book promises to be a powerful account of the refugee experience. It weaves together individual and family stories into how they live their lives more fully and have derived meaning and cultivated resilience from amidst the trauma. Jared Gange's tapestry of histories and photographs will move and captivate you in the most remarkable way. It is beyond inspiring."--Page 4 of cover.
89) A faraway island
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
During the coldest season, when the world feels scary -- what do you remember about being warm? Baked potatoes. Trust. A kettle on the stove. Blankets. A smile. And, most of all, the reassurance that you belong. In his powerful and moving poem, featuring illustrations from thirteen extraordinary artists, bestselling author and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Neil Gaiman draws together many different memories to answer the question, 'what do you need to...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 88 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Years of war and ethnic conflict in the Sudan have created a generation of young men, known as the "Lost Boys," who have spent more years in refugee camps than in their home communities. This intimate film recounts the story of Benjamin and William Deng, brothers joined in the struggle of a seemingly never-ending exile, who are then separated when one is accepted into a United States resettlement program while the other remains in a Kenyan refugee...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A memoir and portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. One of the country's youngest Buddhist nuns, she grew up in a remote mountain village where, as a teenager, she entered the local nunnery....
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 203 x 135mm
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Caf by the Sea--whose novels are an evocative, sweet treat (JOJO MOYES)--comes this heartwarming holiday novel set on a charming Scottish island. On the remote Scottish island of Mure, the Christmas season is stark, windy, and icy--yet incredibly festive and beautiful... It's a time for getting cozy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram and a treacle pudding with the people you...
Author
Publisher
Full Cast Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of a safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Amani is hooked on a mystery-a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father's books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in Jordan during the First World War. Soon the perfect occasion to investigate arises: her Uncle Hafez, an advisor to the King of Jordan, invites her father to celebrate the...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This stunning photo-based picture book for younger readers takes a look at the thousands of children around the world who have been forced to flee war, terror, hunger, sickness, and natural disasters - young refugees on the move with very little left except questions. It's hard to imagine, but the images here will help unaffected children understand not only what this must feel like, but also how very lucky they are. The final message is that children,...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 311 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of three young men who as children in the late 1980s were forced from their homes by war in the Sudan and traveled, along with thousands of other boys, nearly one thousand miles in search of refuge, surviving hunger, illness, and human and animal predators.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
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