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41) Cinnamon moon
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Historical fiction about two siblings and a friend trying to find a new family and a home after the Great Chicago Fire"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Based on a true story, it is an unforgettable film of love, courage and sacrifice. During the final months of World War II in Hungary, a young man sets out to find his displaced family by using a stolen Nazi uniform to pose as an officer. On a journey filled with suspense and danger, he undertakes extraordinary measures to save his family and thousands of lives from the enemy.
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In order to earn enough money to buy a way out of the Afghan refugee camp where she lives, Shauzia dresses like a boy, but is forced into panhandling and ends up in jail, gaining hope only when a well-meaning American family rescues her.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Formats
Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A refugee of war, Mira was cast out of her home country and thrust into another, where the conditions were inhospitable at best. In a life-altering twist of fate, she's given the chance to escape once more, and she takes it, joining the Glittering Court. By day, she goes through the motions, learning the etiquette and customs that will help to earn her anonymity, even making a couple true friends in the process: the forthright ladies' maid Adelaide...
47) Shanghai ghetto
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Documents the true story of thousands of Jews and their dramatic escape from the Nazis to China during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Formats
Description
In the autumn of 1943, although Karin is far too young to understand the Nazi presence or the absence of her Pappa, a soldier in the German army, she is keenly aware of the uneasy tide of change swirling around her. And when a bomb destroys her home, Karin is forced to grow up far too fast as her family joins the tens of thousands displaced in the raids on Berlin. Now, driven by starvation and their perilous existence as refugees, Karin and her family...
50) Wishes
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
51) All Saints
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Based on the inspiring true story of salesman turned pastor Michael Spurlock, the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all." --
52) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
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Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
53) Butterfly yellow
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hà̆ng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determined to find a way to safety in America. When Linh is ripped from her arms, Hà̆ng is left behind in the war-torn country. Six years later, Hà̆ng is now in Texas as a refugee. She doesn't know how she will find the little brother until she meets LeeRoy, a city boy with big rodeo dreams, who decides to help her. Reunited with Linh, she realizes...
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Description
The Noordenham, a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, docks in Lisbon under the guise of a neutral boat. But the ship, sailing for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, loads detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast--a secret mission, a dark voyage.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
While Flora struggles with how to inform her ex-boss that she is carrying his baby, a doctor refugee from war-torn Syria embarks on his first Christmas season without his wife on the remote Scottish island of Mure.
57) 28 weeks later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Almost seven months after the Rage virus has annihilated the inhabitants of the London and the British Isles, the U.S. Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited, but one of them unwillingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
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