Of all her friends, Abia has been at the Shimelba Refugee Camp the longest-seven years, four months, and sixteen days. Papa says that's too long and they need a forever home. Until then, though, Abia has something important to do....
Refugees
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Author:Copp, Mary WagleySummary: -
Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:Mahmood and his wife, Fereiba, live a happy middle-class life until their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rise to power. Mahmood becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her...
- Author:Jamieson, VictoriaSummary:
An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl....
- Author:El Akkad, OmarSummary:
From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War : a new novel—beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving—that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. "It is one thing to put...
- Author:Eggers, DaveSummary:
A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked, and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before...
- Author:Lama, Tsering YangzomSummary:
2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlist - 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - Longlist 2022 Toronto Book Awards Longlist - For readers of Homegoing and The Boat People , a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family...
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Author:Habib, SamraSummary:How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist' Samra Habib has spent most of her life searching for the safety to be herself. As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, she faced regular threats from Islamic...
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Author:Welch, Liz, Yousafzai, MalalaSummary:With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai starts with her own story of displacement to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She also shares the personal...
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Author:Bauman, ZygmuntSummary:The 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts is an inevitable outcome of modernization. Zygmunt Bauman shows that the problem of coping with 'human waste' provides a key for understanding some otherwise...
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Author:Staley, RobertaSummary:Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women's rights. This book charts her incredible journey - from arriving in Canada...
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Author:Thúy, KimSummary:The youngest of four children and the only girl, Vi was given a name that meant 'precious, tiny one,' destined to be cosseted and protected, the family's little treasure. Daughter of an enterprising mother and a wealthy, spoiled father...
- Author:Househ, Mowafa SaidSummary:
Mowafa Said Househ's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. He spent his childhood in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a Muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the...
- Author:Vu, Caroline, Steenhout, IvanSummary:
Ce roman choc raconte la vie tumultueuse d’une famille nord-vietnamienne ballottée par les caprices de l’Histoire et aux prises avec sa propre folie. À travers un récit teinté d’humour, on découvre les aventures rocambolesques d’un clan...
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Author:Ackerman, Kenneth D.Summary:Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical...
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Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:Alan Twigg has here recovered the amazing story of how George and Ingeborg while travelling in northern India in 1961 encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the...
- Author:Hoang, Jolie PhuongSummary:
Jolie Hoang grew up as one of ten children, part of a loving, prosperous Vietnamese family. All that changed when the communists took over in 1975; the family lived in constant fear of being sent to the dreaded "new economic zone....
- Author:Allende, IsabelSummary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration" (People...
- Author:Ursell, GeoffreySummary:
From the novel by Martha Blum. The Walnut Tree tells the story of the intense journey of SŸssel, a young, privileged Jewish woman who grows up in Chernowitz, studies in Prague and Paris, endures the horrors of World War II in Eastern...
- Author:Gatrell, PeterSummary:
Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in recent years. But as we consider the current refugee crisis, acclaimed historian Peter Gatrell reminds us that the history...
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Author:Nayeri, DinaSummary:What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than twenty-five million refugees in the world. Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and...
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