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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese-American internment camp...
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Vancouver 1941. As the war rages around the world, Hitler's fury is yet to be felt on the peaceful shores of Mayne Island. Sweethearts Hayden and Chidori are in love. But everything changes after Pearl Harbor. Now seen as the enemy, Chidori and her family are forced into an internment camp. Powerless to help them, Hayden joins the air force to bring about an end to this devastating war - the thought of Chidori is all that keeps him alive.Can they...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvii, 187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the "Resettlement": the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II, were finally released from custody. Given twenty-five dollars and a one-way bus ticket to make a new life, some ventured east to Denver and Chicago to start...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
xl, 677 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Description
A fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Anne Applebaum first lays out the chronological history of the camps and the logic behind their creation, enlargement, and maintenance. Applebaum also examines how life was lived within this shadow country: how prisoners worked, how they ate, where they lived, how they died, how they survived. She examines their...
Series
Publisher
Ginzberg Productions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (47 min.) : sound, color and black-and-white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In 1942, Executive Order 9066 paved the way for the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. Featuring George Takei and many others who were incarcerated, as well as newly rediscovered photographs of Dorothea Lange ... brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese Americans as they speak out against the Muslim registry and travel ban"--Container....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
295 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Art Spiegelman se aproxima al tema del Holocausto relatando la experiencia de su propia familia en forma de memoria gráfica. Maus es la biografía de Vladek Spiegelman, judío polaco superviviente de los campos de exterminio nazis, contada por su hijo Art, dibujante de cómics que quiere dejar memoria de la persecución sufrida en Europa por millones de personas y de sus consecuencias en la vida cotidiana de las generaciones posteriores.
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Author
Publisher
Press Box Productions
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
232 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Tells the story of Japanese Americans who lived in Lompoc before World War II... he reveals the successful efforts of local and state officials in pushing for the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the Pacific Coast. One of the greatest tragedies of this forced removal was the destruction of the Japanese American community of Lompoc..."--P. 7.
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