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Refuge : a novel / by Simonds, Merilyn,1949-author.(CARDINAL)643383;
"To whom do we offer refuge -- and why? After a life that rubbed up against the century's great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompts the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang's story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment-and forces her, against her will, to confront the tragedy she has refused for half a century. What does she owe this girl, who claims to be stateless because of her MacCallum blood? Drawn, despite herself, into Nang's search for refuge, Cass struggles to accept the past and find a way into whatever future remains to her."-- Cover flap.
Subjects: Novels.; Reminiscing in old age; Refugees; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No steps behind : Beate Sirota Gordon's battle for women's rights in Japan / by Gottesfeld, Jeff,author.(CARDINAL)532143; Witanto, Shiella,illustrator.(CARDINAL)826604;
"Her parents moved her from Austria to Tokyo, Japan before she started school. They were all rendered stateless when Nazi Germany and Austria stripped Jews of their citizenship. She graduated high school fluent in Japanese plus four other languages and went to college in America at age 15. Cut off from her parents by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and America's entry into World War II, she went years not knowing if they were alive. She returned to post-war Japan as an interpreter, found her parents, and wrote the fateful words that make her a storied feminist hero in that nation even today. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor said about Beate Sirota Gordon, 'It is a rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman'"--Ages: 8 to 12.840LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Gordon, Beate; Jews, Austrian; Women heroes; Women immigrants; Women political activists; Women's rights;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Miracle in the cave : the twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them / by Cochrane, Liam,author.(CARDINAL)795282;
"Nine days missing--trapped in the dark behind rising waters in a labyrinthine of caves, with no food and their only drinking water leaking from the cavern walls--survival seemed unlikely for the 12 young boys of the Wild Boar soccer team and Coach Ek, a stateless orphan devoted to Buddhism and his young footballers. Yet, against the odds, a team of determined divers traversed floodwaters and narrow cave ways to find them all, alive and hopeful. In Miracle in the Cave, journalist Liam Cochrane, who reported the story for the Australian Broadcast Corporation, recounts this riveting, race-against-the-clock story, describing in never-before-reported detail the journey of the boys and Coach Ek within the cave and how the rescue unfolded outside--from the contentious political negotiations to the early misadventure that halted the whole operation for several crucial hours and the death of a Thai Navy SEAL diver"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Caving; Soccer players; Soccer coaches;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Day for night : a novel / by McNeil, Jean,author.;
"An unflinching exploration of love and boundaries in Brexit-crazed London. Richard Cottar is a respected independent film writer and director; his wife, Joanna, is his increasingly successful and wealthy producer. Together they are about to embark on a film about the life of Walter Benjamin, the German Jewish intellectual who killed himself in northern Spain while on the run from the Nazis in 1940. In what looks set to be the last year of Britain's membership of the European Union, Benjamin's story of exile and statelessness is more relevant than ever. But Richard and Joanna's symbiotic life takes a sudden turn when they cast a intelligent, sexually ambiguous young actor in the role of Walter Benjamin. In a climate of fear and a bizarre, superheated year redolent of sex and hidden desire, Richard and Joanna must confront their relationship, Benjamin's tragic history, and the future of their country. Taking its cue from Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Day for Night is an unsettling, riveting story of reversals -- of gender, power, and history."--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Motion picture producers and directors; Marriage; Marriage.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Operation Barbarossa : Nazi Germany's war in the East, 1941-1945 / by Hartmann, Christian,1959-author.(CARDINAL)370110;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) and index.Introduction -- Politics 1940-1941. Europe in July 1940; Hitler's ideology and strategy; The monstrous scheme: a Greater Germanic empire; Stalin's ideology and strategy -- The Eve of War. The invaders; Allies; The Soviet Union's land and people; The defenders -- War 1941-1942. The war from above: overview; 1941: the German invasion; 1942: the second German offensive; The war from below: soldiers and civilians -- The German Occupation. Organization; Between collaboration and resistance: Soviet society under the occupation; Stateless spaces: the erosion of German power -- German War Crimes and Atrocities. Jews; Prisoners of war; Partisans; Leningrad; Economic exploitation; Scorched earth -- Politics 1941-1945. German foreign policy; Soviet foreign policy; The mobilization of Soviet society; The other side of the coin: Soviet war crimes and atrocities 1939-1945 -- War 1943-1945. 1943: the turn of the tide; 1944: the collapse of the Eastern Front; 1945: the Soviet victory; A military reckoning -- Aftermath. The endpoint: Europe in May 1945; The outcome -- Chronology of events -- Further reading -- Photographic acknowledgements."The war between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union that raged between 1941 and 1945 was unprecedented in the scale of the destruction that it wrought and the deep scars that it left behind. The invasion of the Soviet Union was the conflict that Hitler had always ultimately planned for in his dream of creating a 'Thousand Year Reich'. From the beginning it was a struggle for survival, conducted with great bitterness and savagery by opponents who knew that defeat meant the destruction of everything they stood for. ... Enriched by a wealth of eye-witness testimony from both the Soviet and the German sides, Operation Barbarossa paints a masterly overview of these momentous four years and their human consequences - one that is both gripping and deeply moving." -- Publisher website.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Daughters of smoke and fire : a novel / by Homa, Ava,author.(CARDINAL)832906;
"Set in Iran, this extraordinary debut novel takes readers into the everyday lives of the Kurds. Leila dreams of making films to bring the suppressed stories of her people onto the global stage, but obstacles keep piling up. Leila?s younger brother Chia, influenced by their father?s past torture, imprisonment, and his deep-seated desire for justice, begins to engage with social and political affairs. But his activism grows increasingly risky and one day he disappears in Tehran. Seeking answers about her brother?s whereabouts, Leila fears the worst and begins a campaign to save him. But when she publishes Chia?s writings online, she finds herself in grave danger as well. Daughters of Smoke and Fire is an evocative portrait of the lives and stakes faced by 40 million stateless Kurds and a powerful story that brilliantly illuminates the meaning of identity and the complex bonds of family, perfect for fans of Khaled Hosseini?s The Kite Runner and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?s Half of a Yellow Sun.--book jacket.
Subjects: Fiction.; Kurds;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Rad women worldwide : artists and athletes, pirates and punks, and other revolutionaries who shaped history / by Schatz, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)691358; Klein Stahl, Miriam,illustrator.(CARDINAL)601687;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the authors of the New York Times bestselling book Rad American Women A-Z, comes a bold new collection of 40 biographical profiles, each accompanied by a striking illustrated portrait, showcasing extraordinary women from around the world. In Rad Women Worldwide, writer Kate Schatz and artist Miriam Klein Stahl tell fresh, engaging, and inspiring tales of perseverance and radical success by pairing well researched and riveting biographies with powerful and expressive cut-paper portraits. Featuring an array of diverse figures from Hatshepsut (the great female king who ruled Egypt peacefully for two decades) and Malala Yousafzi (the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize) to Poly Styrene (legendary teenage punk and lead singer of X-Ray Spex) and Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft (polar explorers and the first women to cross Antarctica), this progressive and visually arresting book is a compelling addition to women's history"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Young adult literature.; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 14
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The rise and decline of the state / by Van Creveld, Martin,1946-(CARDINAL)523623;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1540L
Subjects: State, The.; World politics.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The cosmopolites : the coming of the global citizen / by Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia,author.(CARDINAL)623027;
"The buying and selling of citizenship has become a legitimate, thriving business in just a few years. Entrepreneurs are renouncing America and Europe in favor of tax havens in the Caribbean with the help of a cottage industry of lawyers, bankers, and consultants that specialize in expatriation. But as journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian discovered, the story of twenty-first century citizenship is bigger than millionaires buying their second or third passport. When she learned that mysterious middlemen had persuaded the Comoro Islands to turn to selling citizenship as a new source of revenue, she decided to follow the money trail to the Middle East. There, she found that officials in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates had bulk-ordered passports for their bidoon, or stateless population, transforming these men, women, and children without countries into Comorian citizens practically overnight. In her timely and eye-opening first book, Abrahamian travels the globe to meet these willing and unwitting "cosmopolites," or citizens of the world, who show us how transactional and unpredictable national citizenship in the twenty-first century can be" -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-166).
Subjects: World citizenship.; Citizenship.; Passports.; Identification cards.; Globalization.; Forgery; Passports.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Nansen factor : refugee stories / by Grabbe, Alexandra,author.(CARDINAL)888007;
The Errand -- The Picnic -- Out of This World -- Walnuts -- The Announcement -- No Imposition -- The Horror Of It All -- Time of the Pale Green Light -- 'La Petite Boche' -- The Mother, the Daughter, and the Con Man -- Hanky-panky -- The Revelation -- Buried Treasure -- The Courage It Takes -- Shamil -- The Pilgrimage."A bold debut collection of stories [historical fiction] that follow the lives of those displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution and their descendants, shining a light on the lasting impact of displacement and the resiliency of the human spirit. Norwegian diplomat Fridtjof Nansen created a passport for stateless persons used by refugees as a valid travel document from 1922-1937. The world is all too aware of what happened to Russia over the last 100 years-Lenin, Stalin, and now Putin with his iron-fist policies and invasion of Ukraine. But what about the aristocrats whose ancestors governed Russia before Communism? How did they fare in displacement? Civil War, Red Terror, and Bolshevik rule caused over one million to flee Russia. The Nansen Factor traces the lives of these refugees and their descendants across a century of upheaval and displacement. From the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution to the echoes of the past in modern-day America, these interconnected tales vividly portray the resilience of individuals uprooted by history, highlighting how the pain of losing one's homeland may fade, but the injury to the psyche is slow to heal"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Linked stories.; Short stories.; Russians; Historical fiction, American.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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