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Exile music / by Steil, Jennifer,author.;
"An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live within the city limits. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how definitive her Jewish heritage will become to her family's identity, Orly spends her days immersed in play with her best friend and upstairs neighbor, Analiese. Together they dream up vivid and elaborate worlds, where all of the things they love about their own lives can exist forever. But in 1938, Orly's peaceful life is shattered. Her older brother flees Vienna first, and soon Orly, her father, and her mother procure refugee visas for La Paz, a city high up in the Bolivian Andes. La Paz couldn't be more different from Vienna--the altitude alone sabotages her mother's efforts to bake the pastries they loved back home. Even as the number of Jewish refugees in the small town grows, her family is haunted by the music that can no longer be their livelihood, by the missing brother who was once the heart of their family, and Orly yearns for the solace of her friendship with Analiese. Yet they find a daily rhythm in this strange, new land. Years pass, the war ends, and suddenly the threat they fled looms again. Just as Bolivia took in Jewish refugees, the country now accepts a small number of Nazi refugees. Orly reckons with a darkness that not even victory at war can extinguish, and she must decide: Is the security and joy of her day to day life in La Paz what defines home, or is the pull of her past in Europe too strong to ignore? In lyrical and atmospheric prose, Exile Music illuminates one girl's coming of age in a family separated and defined by war, whose hope takes root on an unfamiliar shore"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Refugee children;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Lights in the distance : exile and refuge at the borders of Europe / by Trilling, Daniel,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279).
Subjects: Refugees; Border security;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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We are not refugees : true stories of the displaced / by Morales, Agus,1983-author.; Whittle, Charlotte,translator.; translation of:Morales, Agus,1983-No somos refugiados.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home -- more than 65 million globally. Unsparing, outspoken, vital, We are not refugees tells the stories of many of these displaced, who have not been given asylum. For over a decade, human rights journalist Agus Morales has journeyed to the sites of the world's most brutal conflicts and spoken to the victims of violence and displacement. To Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central African Republic. To Central America, the Congo, and the refugee camps of Jordan. To the Tibetan Parliament in exile in northern India.
Subjects: Refugees; Forced migration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ghost's journey : a refugee story / by Stevenson, Robin,1968-; Oktovianus, Rainer,1983-;
When life in Indonesia becomes too dangerous, Ghost the cat and her two dads leave their home and escape to freedom in Canada. Inspired by a true story.LSC
Subjects: Cats; Refugees; Gay men; Persecution;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Stormy seas : stories of young boat refugees / by Leatherdale, Mary Beth.; Shakespeare, Eleanor.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.Presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum: Ruth and her family board the St. Louis to escape Nazism; Phu sets out alone from war-torn Vietnam; José tries to reach the United States from Cuba; Najeeba flees Afghanistan and the Taliban; and after losing his family, Mohamed abandons his village on the Ivory Coast in search of a new life.LSC
Subjects: Refugees; Refugee children; Refugees; Refugee children;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ru / by Thúy, Kim.; Fischman, Sheila.;
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Thúy, Kim; Refugees;
© 2012., Random House Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Beautiful animals : a novel / by Osborne, Lawrence,1958-author.;
"On a summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, two girls make a startling discovery: a young Arab man washed up on shore, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging against across the sea. When a simple plan to help the stranger goes horrifically wrong, all must face the consequences they have set in motion"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Refugees;
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Out / by George, Angela May; Swan, Owen(Illustrator);
The story of a girl who is forced to flee from her war-torn country to start anew in a safe country.LSC
Subjects: Refugees; Immigrants;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Nature girl / by Hiaasen, Carl;
Subjects: Manic-depressive illness; Humorous fiction; Mystery fiction; Suspense fiction;
© c2006., Alfred A. Knopf,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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My name is Konisola / by Siegel, Alisa.;
Konisola leaves her home in Nigeria for Canada and must rely on strangers when her mother becomes ill.LSC
Subjects: Refugees; Refugees; Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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