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Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about a young family forced to flee their war-ravaged homeland, forced to leave behind everything and everyone beloved and familiar. Old family photographs and the author's own lush watercolor paintings inspired by medieval illuminated manuscripts interweave with remembrances, ghost stories, stories of the war dead, and fairy tales to conjure a story of war, of emigration and immigration, the remarkable human capacity to experience...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Inspired by the award-winning film of the same name. If you were told that a murderer was to be released into your neighborhood, how would you feel? But what if it weren't only one, but thousands? Could there be a common roadmap to reconciliation? Could there be a shared future after unthinkable evil? If forgiveness is possible after the slaughter of nearly a million in a hundred days in Rwanda, then today, more than ever, we owe...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields, longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime. An award-winning war correspondent for twenty-five years (she's never had a female editor) Lamb reports two wars--the "bang-bang" war and the story of how the people behind the lines live and survive. At the same time, since men usually act as the fighters, women are rarely interviewed about their experience of...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A nurse and humanitarian aid worker who has served in war zones ranging from Africa to Afghanistan aiding refugees, Gately knows just the word refugee sparks conversation and fuel emotion. Here she shares the real stories of refugees around the world in hopes of revealing the truth about their experience. She begins where the newscasters end their reports, showing that refugees are neither all saints nor all sinners-- and impossible to forget. --...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Mariatu set out for a neighborhood village in Sierra Leone, she was kidnapped and tortured, and both of her hands cut off. She turned to begging to survive. This heart-rending memoir is a testament to her courage and resilience. Today she is a UNICEF Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
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