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1) The tempest
Author
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili's head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
3) The tunnel
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (167 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Tunnel tells the incredible true story of a massive underground escape attempt from East to West Berlin. An Anti-communist East German swimming champion narrowly escapes before the Berlin Wall is done, but his sister is left behind.
4) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite his allegiance to the toppled South Vietnamese government, Long Nguyen decides to remain in Vietnam. Imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp, he urges his family to make the escape by boat without him. His wife, son, and mother embark on the arduous ocean voyage in the hope of reaching the U.S. and freedom.
Series
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (44 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the world's most admired men, he is the spiritual and secular leader of a nation that exists only in exile. Born Tenzin Gyatso, he is the fourteenth man recognized by his people as Buddha's reincarnation and honored with the title he is known by worldwide - the Dalai Lama. Since 1959, when he fled his nation after a failed rebellion against the occupying Chinese, he has lived in exile. Follow the Dalai Lama from his childhood in the "Lost Kingdom"...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Phillips, the resident leader of a weather-ravaged Dust Bowl town welcomes a gifted surgeon, Dr. Karl Braun and his lovely daughter, Leni into his community. Dr. Braun and his daughter are refugees fleeing from the Nazis oppressed Austria and are looking to carve out a new existence for themselves.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 22 cm
Description
With no word for “gay” in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980s, but she knew well enough to keep them secret. It was clear that not only would her family have trouble accepting her, but trapped in a conservative religious society, she could’ve also been killed if anyone discovered her sexuality. Luma spent her teenage years increasingly desperate to find a way out, and finally...
10) Night crossing
Publisher
Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on a true story, Night Crossing chronicles the perils of two East German families as they attempt to cross over the Berlin Wall and escape to the freedom of the West in a hot-air balloon.
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the Bowery: chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer which jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination. Good times, wonderful times: Rogosin's plea for humanity against war and fascism. The film took two years of travel to twelve countries and permission to use their war archives before it was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War. In it, mundane chatter at a London cocktail...
12) Recuerdame: el barco que salvó a casi medio millar de niños republicanos de la Guerra Civil Española
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
368 pages cm
Description
"Quinientos ninos suben a un barco desde Barcelonacon destino a Mexico buscndo huir del Regimen Franquisita. Con la esperanza de una vida mejor y libertad el viaje se ve amenazado varias veces, primero por el ejercito que intenta capturarlos y luego por la odisea que les toca vivir de camino a libertad"--
"The latest book by Spanish bestselling author Mario Escobar, RECUERDAME takes a little known historical event (the escape of over 500 children...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
"The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious...
Author
Publisher
Audio Editions
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The book is a triptych, beginning with the mutiny on the Hermione and the ensuing manhunt for members of her crew. The second section recounts the arrival of a handful of mutineers in the United States, including Jonathan Robbins, before examining in depth the political crisis that engulfed John Adams and the Federalist Party. The final three chapters focus on the election of 1800 and the protracted consequences of Robbins's martyrdom during the years...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
368 pages : chiefly color illustrations, genealogical table, color map ; 21 cm
Description
"Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family's desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the war, they set about evacuating the country's major cities with the brutal ruthlessness and disregard for humanity that characterized the regime ultimately responsible for the deaths of one million...
16) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xviii, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years, that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket to New York City and fled for his life. Though America had always been painted to him as a land of freedom and opportunity, it was anything but when he arrived...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months later, working with a group of students, he picked up a spade... and tunneled back in. The goal was to tunnel into the East to help people escape. They spend months digging, hauling up carts of dirt in a tunnel ventilated by stove pipes. But the odds are...
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