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Have you seen her : a novel / by McKenzie, Catherine,author.;
"Equipped with a burner phone and a new job, Cassie Peters has left her hectic and secretive life in New York City for the refuge of her hometown of Mammoth Lakes, California. There, she begins working again with Yosemite Search and Rescue, where a case she worked a decade ago continues to haunt her"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Homecoming; Search and rescue operations; Secrecy; Summer employment; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Hotel Cuba : a novel / by Hamburger, Aaron,author.;
Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl Kahn and her lovestruck, impulsive younger sibling Frieda sail for America to join their sister in New York. But discriminatory new immigration laws bar their entry, and the young women are turned back at Ellis Island. With few options, Pearl and Frieda head for Havana, Cuba, convinced they will find a way to overcome this setback. At first, life in big-city Prohibition-era Havana is overwhelming, like nothing Pearl and Frieda have ever experienced--or could have ever imagined in the rural shtetl where they grew up. As the sisters begin to adjust, their plans for going to America together become complicated. Frieda falls for the not-so-dreamy man of her dreams while Pearl's life opens up unexpectedly, offering her a taste of freedom and heady romance, and an opportunity to build a future on her own terms. Though to do so, she must confront her past and the shame she has long carried. A heartbreaking, epic family story, Hotel Cuba explores the profound courage of two women displaced from their home who strive to create a new future in an enticing and dangerous world far different from anything they have ever known.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Jewish families; Jewish women; Jews; Jews, Russian; Man-woman relationships; Refugees; Sisters; Travelers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tears of salt : a doctor's story / by Bartolo, Pietro,1956-author.; Tilotta, Lidia,author.; Bartolo, Giacomo,author.; Jiang, Chenxin,translator.; translation of:Bartolo, Pietro,1956-Lacrime di sale.English.; revision of:Bartolo, Pietro,1956-Lapedusa.;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Bartolo, Pietro, 1956-; Physicians; Immigrants; Immigrants; Refugees; Humanitarian assistance, Italian;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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After Auschwitz : a story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank / by Schloss, Eva.; Bartlett, Karen.;
Subjects: Schloss, Eva.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Jewish children in the Holocaust; Jewish refugees; Jews; Jews, German;
© c2013., Hodder & Stoughton,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The dragons, the giant, the women : a memoir / by Moore, Wayétu,author.;
"When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States. Spanning this harrowing journey in Moore's early childhood, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant, and her eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval. Moore has a novelist's eye for suspense and emotional depth, and this unforgettable memoir is full of imaginative, lyrical flights and lush prose. In capturing both the hazy magic and stark realities of what is becoming an increasingly pervasive experience, Moore shines a light on the great political and personal forces that continue to affect many migrants around the world, and calls us all to acknowledge the tenacious power of love and family"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Moore, Wayétu.; African American women authors; Refugees; Immigrants; Liberian Americans; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Tuscan child / by Bowen, Rhys,author.;
"n 1944, a wounded British bomber pilot parachuted into German-occupied Tuscany and found refuge in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later his estranged daughter finds a letter addressed to Sofia and embarks on a journey to Tuscany to discover his secrets and a past some would prefer be left undisturbed."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class); Women spies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The night manager / by Le Carré, John,1931-author.;
In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations in South Armagh, allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes / by Hochschild, Adam,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the bestselling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933.; Feminists; Jewish refugees; Women immigrants; Women political activists; Women socialists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lines we cross / by Abdel-Fattah, Randa.;
Michael's parents are leaders of a new anti-immigrant political party called Aussie Values which is trying to halt the flood of refugees from the Middle East; Mina fled Afghanistan with her family ten years ago, and just wants to concentrate on fitting in and getting into college--but the mutual attraction they feel demands that they come to terms with their family's concerns and decide where they stand in the ugly anti-Muslim politics of the time.LSC
Subjects: Refugees; Muslim families; Families; Interpersonal attraction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Roman year : a memoir / by Aciman, André,author.;
"A memoir of the author's time in Rome after his family was made to leave Egypt, before moving to America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Aciman, André.; Aciman family.; Jewish refugees; Jews, Egyptian; Jews;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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