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El hijo del acordeonista / by Atxaga, Bernardo.; Garikano, Asun.;
Ésta es la novela más personal de Bernardo Atxaga. En ella recorremos, como si miráramos un mosaico hecho con distintos tiempos, lugares y estilos, la historia de dos amigos: Joseba y David, el hijo del acordeonista.
Subjects: Stateless persons;
© c2004., Alfaguara,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The man without a country and other tales. by Hale, Edward Everett,1822-1909.(CARDINAL)155658;
The man without a country.--The last of the Florida.--A piece of possible history.--The South American editor.--The old and the new, face to face.--The dot and line alphabet.--The last voyage of the Resolute.--My double, and how he undid me.--The children of the public.--The skeleton in the closet.--Christmas waits in Boston.
Subjects: Fiction.; Exiles; Sea stories, American.; Soldiers; Stateless persons;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Trains of thought : memories of a stateless youth / by Brombert, Victor,1923-;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Brombert, Victor, 1923-; French teachers; Stateless persons; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Where butterflies fill the sky : a story of immigration, family, and finding home / by Marwan, Zahra,1989-author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)898343;
"An evocative picture book that tells the true story of the author's immigration from Kuwait to the United States."--Ages: 4-8.500LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Picture books.; Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Marwan, Zahra, 1989-; Kuwaiti Americans; Stateless persons; Immigrants;
Available copies: 27 / Total copies: 29
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Human trafficking around the world : hidden in plain sight / by Hepburn, Stephanie,1977-author.(CARDINAL)475259; Simon, Rita J.(Rita James),1931-2013,author.(CARDINAL)148158;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-521) and index.
Subjects: Human trafficking.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Look : poems / by Sharif, Solmaz,author.(CARDINAL)350733; Amazon Literary Partnership,funder.; Minnesota State Arts Board,funder.(CARDINAL)273800; Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota,funder.;
"Solmaz Sharif's astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable loss of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her family's and her own fragmented narratives in the aftermath of warfare. Those repercussions echo into the present day, in the grief for those killed in America's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the discrimination endured at the checkpoints of daily encounter. At the same time, these poems point to the ways violence is conducted against our language. Throughout this collection are words and phrases lifted from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; in their seamless inclusion, Sharif exposes the devastating euphemisms deployed to sterilize the language, control its effects, and sway our collective resolve. But Sharif refuses to accept this terminology as given, and instead turns it back on its perpetrators. "Let it matter what we call a thing," she writes. "Let me look at you""--Amazon.com.National Book Award finalist.
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry.; Political poetry.; War poetry.; American poetry; American poetry; War;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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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.;
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From day to day : one man's diary of survival in Nazi concentration camps / by Nansen, Odd,1901-1973,VerfasserIn.(CARDINAL)778693; John, Katherine,-1984,MitwirkendeR.(CARDINAL)741524; Boyce, Timothy J.,MitwirkendeR.(CARDINAL)721582;
Includes bibliographical references and index.-Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.""From Day to Day, a World War II concentration camp diary, one of the very few to survive, records the author's struggle, not only to survive, but to maintain his humanity, amidst the casual brutality and random terror that was the fate of a camp prisoner"--Provided by publisher.""In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal above the Arctic Circle, and Sachsenhausen in Germany. For three and a half years, Nansen kept a secret diary on tissue-paper-thin pages later smuggled out by various means, including inside the prisoners' hollowed-out breadboards. Unlike writers of retrospective Holocaust memoirs, Nansen recorded the mundane and horrific details of camp life as they happened, 'from day to day.' With an unsparing eye, Nansen described the casual brutality and random terror that was the fate of a camp prisoner. His entries reveal his constantly frustrated hopes for an early end to the war, his longing for his wife and children, his horror at the especially barbaric treatment reserved for Jews, and his disgust at the anti-Semitism of some of his fellow Norwegians. Nansen often confronted his German jailors with unusual outspokenness and sometimes with a sense of humor and absurdity that was not appreciated by his captors. After the Putnam's edition received rave reviews in 1949, the book fell into obscurity. In 1956, in response to a poll about the 'most undeservedly neglected' book of the preceding quarter-century, Carl Sandburg singled out From Day to Day, calling it 'an epic narrative, ' which took 'its place among the great affirmations of the power of the human spirit to rise above terror, torture, and death.' Indeed, Nansen witnessed all the horrors of the camps, yet still saw hope for the future. He sought reconciliation with the German people, even donating the proceeds of the German edition of his book to German refugee relief work. Nansen was following in the footsteps of his father, Fridtjof, an Arctic explorer and humanitarian who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work on behalf of World War I refugees. (Fridtjof also created the 'Nansen passport' for stateless persons.) This new edition, the first in over sixty-five years, contains extensive annotations and new diary selections never before translated into English. Forty sketches of camp life and death by Nansen, an architect and talented draftsman, provide a sense of immediacy and acute observation matched by the diary entries. The preface is written by Thomas Buergenthal, who was 'Tommy, ' the ten-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz Death March, whom Nansen met at Sachsenhausen and saved using his extra food rations. Buergenthal, who later served as a judge on the International Court of Justice at The Hague, is a recipient of the 2015 Elie Wiesel Award from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum."
Subjects: Personal narratives.; Nansen, Odd, 1901-1973; Grini (Concentration camp); Veidal Prison Camp.; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp); World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Internment camp inmates;
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Twice armed : an American soldier's battle for hearts and minds in Iraq / by King, R. Alan,1963-(CARDINAL)836888;
Reflections of war -- The journey -- Twenty-four hours -- Reaching out -- We wanted you to win -- This will do -- Changing places -- Bet your career -- Tribal honor -- No time for tears -- The intifada -- Facing a stateless enemy -- Conclusion.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; King, R. Alan, 1963-; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Soldiers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Atlas of the human heart / by Gore, Ariel,1970-(CARDINAL)347854;
Subjects: Biographies.; Gore, Ariel, 1970-; Americans; Teenagers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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