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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
562 pages ; 25 cm
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In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally...
5) Stolen girl
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When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
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Publisher
Tablo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
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When Saamidah, a young Palestinian refugee, is asked by her friends what her name means, she isn't quite sure what to say. She turns to her baba for some answers - but what she gets is an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. Join Saamidah on a lyrical journey, with dazzling illustrations, that brings to life her beloved homeland and celebrates the richness of her cultural heritage and the determination to return.
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1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 13
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When listeners last heard Maisie Dobbs, it was 1938, and the world was on the brink of war. Maisie herself was on a dangerous mission inside Nazi Germany, where she encountered an old enemy and the Fuhrer himself. In In This Grave Hour, a year has passed, and Maisie is back home in England--yet neither she nor her nation is safe. Britain has just declared war on Germany and is mobilizing for the devastating battle ahead. But when she stumbles on the...
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Secrets of the manor volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
While everyone at Chatswood Manor is busy planning a birthday ball, an Irish refugee who is searching for his wife arrives at the house, and Elizabeth and Katherine decide to investigate the woman's disappearance.
12) Nowhere boy
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
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Fourteen-year-old Ahmed, a Syrian refugee living on his own in Brussels, Belgium, meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy, and the two form an important friendship.
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The unlikely friendship between Syrian American boxer Khadija and Syrian refugee Leene reveals the pressures and expectations of the perfect Syrian daughter and the repercussions of the Syrian Revolution both at home and abroad.
14) Kicked out
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 20 cm
Description
While his home life is unraveling, thirteen-year-old Ali organizes a charity soccer match to help his friend Aadam avoid deportation back to Syria.
15) Margot
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
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Rome escape line trilogy volume 1
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In German-occupied Rome during World War II, as diplomats, refugees and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, a small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest risk everything, including their lives, to help thoseseeking refuge.
17) The treasure box
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
When war forces people to flee their homes, young refugee Peter carries a cherished family possession throughout a difficult period of survival before reflecting on its importance years later.
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Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Enduring a refugee existence in New York in the wake of a nuclear war, Hel, a woman from a parallel dimension, refuses to acclimate to an unfamiliar culture and obsessively creates a museum in the name of her vanished world.
19) I am David
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
239 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
After escaping from an Eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
20) Samira surfs
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
411 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
After months of rebuilding a new life in Bangladesh with her family, Samira decides to become a Bengali surfer girl of Cox's Bazar, in this novel in verse about a young Rohingya girl's journey from isolation and persecution to sisterhood, and from fear topower.
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