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English
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A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival--of a twelve-year-old boy's traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West--that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time.To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
3) Last Chance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 85 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Last Chance tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles integrating into Canada, fear deportation and anxiously await a decision that will change their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual kids from among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 80 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
The film opens with the Australian government’s surprise announcement to build Tasmania’s first detention centre for 400 male asylum seekers at Pontville on the outskirts of Hobart. The local community erupts with hostility as the Department of Immigration host a public meeting. When a suggestion is made at the local knitting club, to make beanies for the asylum seekers, not everyone is in support. Knitter and elderly Christian woman Mary is strongly...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
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Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Forced from his home by the Khmer Rouge, teenager Mae Taing struggles to endure years of backbreaking work, constant starvation, and ruthless cruelty from his captors--supposed freedom fighters who turned against their own people. Mae risks torture and death to escape into the dark tropical jungles, trekking across a relentless wilderness crawling with soldiers. When Mae is able to overcome unthinkable odds in the hopes of reuniting with his family,...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
10) Recuerdame: el barco que salvo a casi medio millar de ninos republicanos de la Guerra Civil Espanola
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"The latest book by Spanish bestselling author Mario Escobar, RECUERDAME takes a little known historical event (the escape of over 500 children from the Spanish Revolution in the 1930's to Mexico, embarking on this journey with the blessing of their parents and assistance by the Mexican government) and turns in to a exciting, thrilling novel"--
11) Annual report
Author
Publisher
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Office of New Americans, New American Integration Initiative
Pub. Date
2017-
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, map
Language
English
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English
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"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...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution...
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Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming to America on the Mariel boatlift, and a defense of democracy, here and there Hailed for his iconic art on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world, Edel Rodriguez is among the most prominent political artists of our age. Now for the first time, he draws his own life, revisiting his childhood in Cuba and his family's passage on the infamous Mariel boatlift. When Edel was nine, Fidel...
18) 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
Language
English
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...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"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...
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