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- The Stone Heart / by Hicks, Faith Erin.; Bellaire, Jordie.;
- When a plan to give all of Nameless City's peoples a say in its future is met by violent opposition, Kai, Rat, and Kai's injured father find themselves in danger and must seek refuge among the monks of the Stone Heart. LSC
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.; Cities and towns; Social conflict; Friendship; Adventure and adventurers;
- Maple leaf harvest / by Anderson, Catherine(Adeline Catherine);
- Seeking refuge in Mystic Creek, Oregon, Lane Driscoll, plagued by strange dreams, discovers, with the help of the town psychologist, that she has a twin sister who may be in danger, and as they race against time to find her, romance blossoms between them.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Twin sisters; Psychologists;
- Bumblebee [videorecording] / by Cena, John,actor.; Knight, Travis,1973-film director.; Lendeborg, Jorge,Jr.,1996-actor.; Steinfeld, Hailee,actor.; Adlon, Pamela,1968-actor.; Drucker, Jason,2005-actor.; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
- Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Jason Drucker, Pamela Adlon.On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
- Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bumblebee (Fictitious character); Extraterrestrial beings; Human-alien encounters; Transformers (Fictitious characters);
- For private home use only.
- The way of Rōnin : defying the odds on battlefields, in business and in life / by Lam, Tu,author.;
- A gripping memoir detailing Tu Lam's life, from his childhood as a Vietnamese refugee, his military career as a decorated Green Beret, his time as an underground MMA fighter, to becoming the basis for Call of Duty's Ronin character.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lam, Tu.; United States. Army. Special Forces; Refugees; Soldiers; Vietnamese Americans;
- The orphan's tale / by Jenoff, Pam,author.;
- Sixteen-year-old Noa, forced to give up her baby fathered by a Nazi soldier, snatches a child from a boxcar containing Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp and takes refuge with a traveling circus, where Astrid, a Jewish aerialist, becomes her mentor.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Circus; Teenage mothers; Jews; World War, 1939-1945;
- Time for the vet, Snoopy! / by Michaels, Patty.; Schulz, Charles M.(Charles Monroe),1922-2000.Peanuts.;
- "It's that time again... Snoopy is due for a check-up at the veterinarian's office--but he has other ideas! To hide from Charlie Brown and avoid the vet, Snoopy takes refuge in the bustling school carnival. Can he avoid discovery?"--
- Subjects: Readers (Publications); Snoopy (Fictitious character); Dogs; Veterinarians;
- All the ways we said goodbye : a novel of the Ritz Paris / by Williams, Beatriz,author.; Willig, Lauren,author.; White, Karen(Karen S.),author.;
- The authors of 'The Glass Ocean' and 'The Forgotten Room' return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris legendary Ritz hotel.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Hotels;
- Pegasus : a novel / by Steel, Danielle.;
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Love stories.; Aristocracy (Social class); Circus; Fathers and sons; Lipizzaner horse; Man-woman relationships; Refugees; Widowers;
- A most wanted man [videorecording] / by Bovell, Andrew.; Corbijn, Anton.; Dafoe, Willem.; Hoffman, Philip Seymour,1967-2014.; McAdams, Rachel,1978-; Bruhl, Daniel.; Wright, Robin.; Bock, Rainer.; Krieps, Vicky.; Le Carré, John,1931-Most wanted man.[videorecording].; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm); Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
- Willem Dafoe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Bruhl, Robin Wright, Rainer Bock, Vicky Krieps.German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Intelligence officers; Terrorists; Terrorism; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009;
- For private home use only.
- The freedom seeker / by Gupta, Ruchira.;
- "In one girl's relentless search for home and safety, The Freedom Seeker takes readers on a daring journey of displacement and immigration. Illuminated by the kindness of strangers across continents and the strength of the human spirit, renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta has written a powerful tale of resilience, hope, and the enduring strength of familial love. Twelve-year-old Simi Singh's life in Northern India is filled with love, family traditions, and ordinary worries about hockey competitions, school exams, and avoiding the snide remarks of her class nemesis. But when a single rock carrying a note crash through their window during their Eid celebration, Simi's life will shatter. Her Sikh father and Muslim mother's interfaith marriage is becoming a target of violent vigilantes. Faced with rising threats, they must make an impossible choice: stay and risk their lives, or flee their homeland. Simi's father is the first of them to make the journey to the U.S., but when their petition to be reunited in America is denied, Simi and her mother are left with no choice but to attempt a perilous crossing through the Arizona desert with the help of a smuggler. Throughout her nail-biting journey towards safety and belonging, Simi will face unthinkable danger-- and when Simi and her mother are separated during the crossing, each led to believe the other is dead, she refuses to accept this fate. Alone in an unfamiliar and unforgiving land, she must summon all her courage and resourcefulness to survive, find her mother, and reunite her shattered family.
- Subjects: Social problem fiction.; Interfaith marriage; Refugees; Human smuggling; Emigration and immigration; Families; Sikhs; Muslims;
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