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When stars are scattered / by Jamieson, Victoria.; Mohamed, Omar(Social worker); Geddy, Iman.;
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Mohamed, Omar (Social worker); Refugees; Refugees; Refugee camps; Brothers;

The Squatchicorns / by Potter, Ellen,1963-; Sala, Felicita.;
A tribe of odd-looking Sasquatches flee their cursed cave and take refuge with Hugo, but when Hugo invites Nobb, one of the strange squidges, to Boone's birthday party, the result is near-disaster.LSC
Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Sasquatch; Animals, Mythical; Friendship; Blessing and cursing; Birthdays; Birthday parties;

Swim home to the vanished / by Shay Basham, Brendan,author.;
"A haunting debut novel in the indigenous Diné tradition, Swim Home to the Vanished follows a grief-stricken young man who, after his brother's sudden death, seeks refuge--and oblivion--in a mysterious fishing village of brujas"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Brothers; Grief; Resilience (Personality trait); Villages;

The Brutalist [videorecording] / by Brody, Adrien,actor.; Corbet, Brady,1988-screenwriter,film director,film producer.; Jones, Felicity,actor.; Nivola, Alessandro,actor.; Pearce, Guy,1967-actor.; Fastvold, Mona,1981-screenwriter.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Alessandro Nivola.Escaping post-war Europe, a visionary architect arrives in America to rebuild his life. On his own in a strange new country, a wealthy industrialist recognizes his talent. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.MPAA rating: R.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.66:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Architects; American Dream; Refugees; Man-woman relationships; Holocaust survivors; Industrialists; Brutalism (Architecture);
For private home use only.

The last million : Europe's displaced persons from World War to Cold War / by Nasaw, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and desperate foreigners, and attempted to repatriate them to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, and the USSR. But after exhaustive efforts, there remained over a million displaced persons who either refused to go home or, in the case of many, had no home to which to return. They would spend the next three to five years in displaced persons camps, divided by nationalities, temporary homelands in exile, with their own police forces, churches, schools, newspapers, and medical facilities. The international community couldn't agree on the fate of the Last Million, and after a year of fruitless debate and inaction, an International Refugee Organization was created to resettle them in lands suffering from labor shortages. But no nations were willing to accept the 200,000 to 250,000 Jewish men, women, and children who remained trapped in Germany. In 1948, the United States, among the last countries to accept anyone for resettlement, finally passed a Displaced Persons Bill - but as Cold War fears supplanted memories of WWII atrocities, the bill only granted visas to those who were reliably anti-communist, including thousands of former Nazi collaborators, Waffen-SS members, and war criminals, while barring the Jews who were suspected of being Communist sympathizers or agents because they had been recent residents of Soviet-dominated Poland. Only after the passage of the controversial UN resolution for the partition of Palestine and Israel's declaration of independence were the remaining Jewish survivors finally able to leave their displaced persons camps in Germany."--
Subjects: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.; International Refugee Organization.; World War, 1939-1945; Refugees; Refugees; Jewish refugees; Political refugees; Jews; Humanitarianism; World War, 1939-1945;

Shadows of Berlin : a novel / by Gillham, David R.,author.;
"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and the tremendous guilt that weighs down on her, her own "crime" of survival"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Choice (Psychology); Guilt; Holocaust survivors; Jewish refugees; Women artists;

Alchemy of a blackbird : a novel / by McMillan, Claire,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Fleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011; Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963; Female friendship; Tarot; Women painters;

Wind / by Hunter, Erin.;
While Frostpaw takes refuge in ShadowClan as Splashtail seizes control of her home, Nightheart returns to ThunderClan and to a complicated reunion with his mate Sunbeam whose efforts to fit in as ThunderClan's newest member are hampered by her treacherous mother.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Animal fiction.; Cats; Clans; Imaginary wars and battles;

Run for cover : a novel / by Ledwidge, Michael,author.;
Seeking respite after a lethal entanglement, Michael Gannon takes refuge on a friend's isolated ranch in the wilds of Utah before teaming up with a tenacious FBI agent to investigate a suspicious death in the rocky foothills of Grand Teton.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Murder;

Canadian citizenship made easy : A study guide in simple English / by Smith, Drew(Andrew Martin),1956-author.;
Subjects: Canada.; Citizenship; Citizenship; Civil rights; Emigration and immigration; Refugees;

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