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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
2) Sea prayer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
When she gains entry into the Glittering Court, war refugee Mira continues to endure persecution while learning skills that help her earn anonymity, forging friendships that inspire her to hatch a daring but dangerous plan.
Author
Series
Jim Clemo novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
From NYT bestselling author of WHAT SHE KNEW comes a whip-smart domestic suspense about the secrets families tell one another.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies{u2026}and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept. Inspired by the single greatest tragedy in maritime history, bestselling and...
6) The refugees
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Refugees is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family. In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from...
8) Skyhunter
Author
Series
Skyhunter duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
Author
Publisher
Rervoir Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
La historia de amor furtivo de Nadia y Said tiene lugar en una ciudad llena de puntos de control y bombas. Es un laberinto humano donde, al empezar la guerra civil, surgen extrąas habladur̕as: ±rumores sobre puertas que pod̕an llevarlo a uno a otro lugar, concretamente a lugares remotos, alejados de aquella trampa mortal de pa̕s». En una historia ̌pica de tremenda actualidad, esta ins̤lita pareja de amantes huir̀ para recalar primero en Mikonos...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Hilma, an American painter of fifty-eight, goes to the beautiful island of Samos to escape a family tragedy by swimming and hiking and trying to forget. But on one of these swims, she finds a small Syrian girl floating unconscious in a life jacket. Hilma saves her but quickly becomes obsessed with the idea of adopting the girl, whose mother and father, she assumes, have drowned, as so many refugees do. The child's mother, Farah, did not drown, however,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for a pair of immaculate hands; a mother and daughter harvest earthworms in the middle of the night; a country music-obsessed housewife abandons her family for fantasy; and a young girl's...
Author
Series
Fairbourne quartet volume 3
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spy hunter Alban Norwood, Viscount Kendale, tries to resist his attraction to French refugee Marielle Lyon, whom he is convinced is a spy, while Marielle is willing to make use of his interest in her to help save her father.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A novel that imagines a future in which sweeping civil conflict has forced America's young people to flee its borders, into an unwelcoming world. One such American is Ron Patterson, who finds himself on distant shores, working as a repairman and sharing a room with other refugees. In an unnamed city wedged between ocean and lush mountainous forest, Ron can almost imagine a stable life for himself. Especially when he makes the first friend he has had...
16) The red pencil
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"After her tribal village is attacked by militants, Amira, a young Sudanese girl, must flee to safety at a refugee camp, where she finds hope and the chance to pursue an education in the form of a single red pencil and the friendship and encouragement of a wise elder" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Journalist Hannah Vogel is in Poland with her son Anton to cover the 1938 St. Martin festival when she hears that 12,000 Polish Jews have been deported from Germany. Hannah drops everything to get the story on the refugees, and walks directly into danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Is someone out to get Annie? Or is she her own worst enemy?"--
"In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present. ... Annie "Anh Le" Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie's mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie's carefully...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Celeste Marconi es una niña de once años soñadora, poeta, y coleccionista de palabras. De pronto, una nueva palabra susurrada se filtra en su vida: subversivos. Su amado país, Chile, ha sido tomado por una dictadura militar, y los subversivos - aquellas personas consideradas una amenaza para el nuevo gobierno - corren cada día más peligro. Los padres de Celeste, que son médicos, tienen que esconderse para mantenerse a salvo, y Celeste, desconsolada,...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Fire in His Wake, Spencer Wolff's exuberant debut novel, tells the story of two men swept up in refugee crises of the twenty-first century: Simon, a young employee at the UNHCR in Morocco, and Arès, a Congolese locksmith left for dead in the wake of ethnic violence." --Amazon.com.
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