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Author
Series
Routledge advances in sociology volume 71
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two powerful, but deeply troubled women who are refugees from political and personal trauma flee a past that haunts them. The very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves as heroes capable of a thrilling shoot-out in the name of outlaw justice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night -- wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren't from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for...
Author
Series
Basel Namibia studies volume 13
Publisher
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
13) Articles of war
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
George Tilson, nicknamed Heck, is deployed to Normandy and soon discovers a troubled French family headed by a one-armed painter. As Heck falls in love with the painter's daughter, he is pulled back into the war. Marked as a coward by his fellow soldiers, Heck gets a second chance when his company sergeant puts him on a secret and dangerous assignment.
14) Fire road: the Napalm girl's journey through the horrors of war to faith, forgiveness, and peace
Author
Language
English
Description
"Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.