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Author
Publisher
Redstone Media
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
This book is a collaboration of work by Doohyun Kim, Jiyeon Maeng, and Heidi Tucker. Doohyun Kim and Jiyeon Maeng are the authors of the initial draft of their story written in their native Korean language. Heidi Tucker embraced the story and along with further interviews and research, created A Necessary Lie to fully tell this inspirational journey of hope. Doohyun and Jiyeon's extraordinary love story shows us that bravery and heart can triumph,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
March 1944. Emil and Adeline Martel come from a family of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed in Ukraine for more than a century. As Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, the young siblings must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the Nazi officers who have pledged to protect "pure-blood" Germans? Caught between two warring forces, they will have to overcome...
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Liliane Leila Juma was 16 years old when her family home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was destroyed by rebel soldiers. In this gut-wrenching memoir, she gives an account of her life before and after her family was torn apart by the twin nightmares of civil war and invasion. Sincere and revealing, it gives a moving account of a young girl's journey from a protected and secure family life, through a series of brutal conflicts that saw her...
444) Lubna and Pebble
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Lubna's best friend is a pebble. Pebble always listens to her stories. Pebble always smiles when she feels scared. But when a lost little boy arrives in the World of Tents, Lubna realizes that he needs Pebble even more than she does." -- From dust jacket.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The killer that stalked New York (1950): Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.
Two of a kind (1951): Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son. Kathy, the McIntyre's niece, who likes Lefty,...
446) Above the salt
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Alves, son of a famous Presbyterian martyr on the Portuguese island of Madeira, spends his childhood in jail and in poverty. When he meets Mary Freitas--though the adopted daughter of a master botanist, her true lineage is the subject of dangerous rumor--a spark kindles a lasting bond. But soon their families must confront the rising blood tide of warfare between Catholics and Protestants. Fleeing with only what they can carry, John and Mary...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2020, Lauren Markham went to Greece to cover the burning of a refugee camp on Lesbos. Some said the refugees had done it, to destroy what had become their prison. Others said it was the island's fascists, or the government itself, enraged at the burden they bore for an overwhelming global problem. Soon-too soon-six young Afghan refugees were arrested. As she immersed herself in the reporting, Markham-an American of Greek heritage who had been working...
449) La maleta
Author
Publisher
Leetra Final
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando un día llegó un extraño, cansado y sin nada más que una maleta, todos se hacían preguntas. Una historia conmovedora, llena de bondad y esperanza, sobre cómo tratamos a aquellos que necesitan ayuda." --
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets. Through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
451) Munich signature
Author
Series
Zion covenant volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of Hitler's Third Reich.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite Toutoungi lives a life of loss and sacrifice. She dreams of traveling to Europe and studying music at the Conservatoire de Paris but her family, and her society, hold her back. When she meets the son of a Cuban tobacco farmer at a formal dance, love transforms her life. Together with him, she flees across the Pacific Ocean. She's hoping for a new beginning. Instead, she finds revolution and chaos. More than fifty...
Author
Series
Nnewts volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, An Imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this exciting sequel to Escape from the Lizzarks, Herk is happy to have a new family and a new place to call home. But when the Lizzarks make an all-out assault on Amphibopolis using a giant monster, Herk must seek the help of the megasloth to save the city and his adopted family. Meanwhile, Sissy, Herk's sister, discovers the dark truth about their long-lost brother Zerk--and truth that will affect Herk and the future of all Nnewts.
456) These olive trees
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
It's 1967 in Nablus, Palestine. Oraib loves the olive trees that grow outside the refugee camp where she lives. Each harvest, she and her mama pick the small fruits and she eagerly stomp stomp stomps on them to release their golden oil. Olives have always tied her family to the land, as Oraib learns from the stories Mama tells of a home before war. But war has come to their door once more, forcing them to flee. Even as her family is uprooted, Oraib...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A Palestinian family celebrates the stories of their homeland in this moving autobiographical picture book debut by Hannah Moushabeck. With heartfelt illustrations by Reem Madooh, Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine is a love letter to home, to family, and to the persisting hope of people, which transcends borders.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Kenan loves drawing and playing soccer with his friends. He wants to be a famous athlete, hates it when his classmates trash his buck teeth by calling him 'Bugs Bunny,' and fights with his big brother, who's too busy and cool for him lately. Sometimes his parents drive him crazy, but he feels loved and protected--until the war ruins everything. Soon, Kenan's family is trapped in their home with little food or water, surrounded by enemies. Ten long...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII--in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. Liane B. Russell fled Austria with nothing and later became a renowned U.S. scientist whose research on the effects of radiation on embryos made...
460) Isabel's war
Author
Publisher
Lizzie Skurnick Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Isabel has no interest in the war in Europe until her family welcomes Helga, a German war refugee, into their home in the Bronx.
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