Red Cross nurse Nina Borg's life is at a turning point. Her husband, Morten, has pleaded with her not to get involved in any more dangerous projects with her network of volunteers who assist illegal immigrants and refugees. But when...
Refugees
- Author:Kaaberbøl, Lene, Friis, AgneteSummary:
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
As Britain becomes engulfed in a second World War, the indomitable Maisie Dobbs is plunged into a treacherous battle of her own when she stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may have been more than ordinary people seeking sanctuary on...
- Author:Park, YeonmiSummary:
"I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea." - Yeonmi Park "One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard - and one of the most inspiring." - The Bookseller "Park's...
- Author:Thammavongsa, SouvankhamSummary:
In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer...
- Author:Pesta, Abigail, Uwiringiyimana, SandraSummary:
A girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. Remarkably, she escaped. Here she tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new...
- Author:Lottridge, Celia BarkerSummary:
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only...
- Author:Cluskey, Emma McSummary:
In the wake of Europe's so-called refugee crisis in 2015 and 2016, even traditionally open countries such as Sweden and Germany adopted hostile policies on refugees, closing borders and linking refugees with terrorism and threats...
- Author:Gately, RobertaSummary:
The word "refugee" sparks conversation and fuels emotion. There are more than twenty-two million refugees worldwide and another sixty-five million who have been forcibly displaced. But who are these people? Images filter into our...
- Author:Omidvar, Ratna, Wagner, DanaSummary:
The global number of people currently displaced from their home country--more than 50 million--is higher than at any time since World War II. Yet in recent years Canada has deported, denied, and diverted countless refugees. Is Canada a...
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Millions of people are displaced each year by war, persecution, and famine and the global refugee population continues to grow. Canada has often been regarded as a benevolent country, welcoming refugees from around the globe. However,...
- Author:Hamid, MohsinSummary:
"It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future ... At once terrifying and, in the end, oddly hopeful."--Ayelet Waldman, The New York Times Book Review From the...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
"Em, c'est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c'est celle qui aime."
- Author:Raska, JanSummary:
During the Cold War, more than 36,000 individuals entering Canada claimed Czechoslovakia as their country of citizenship. A defining characteristic of this migration of predominantly political refugees was the prevalence of anti-...
- Author:Oron, JudieSummary:
In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian Jews fled the civil unrest, famine and religious persecution of their native land in the hopes of being reunited in Yerusalem, their spiritual homeland, with its promises of a better life....
- Author:Labman, ShaunaSummary:
Resettlement - the selection and transfer of refugees from the state where they seek asylum to another state - is considered a tool of refugee protection. In this nuanced account of Canada's resettlement program from the...
- Author:Colgan, JennySummary:
It's a time for getting cozy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram and a treacle pudding with the people you love-unless, of course, you've accidentally gotten pregnant by your ex-boss, and don't know...
- Author:Nanji, ShenaazSummary:
It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sabine enjoys a comfortable life as the daughter of Indian parents living in Uganda. But her world is turned upside down when the country’s military President, General Idi Amin, declares Indians must be...
- Author:Bala, Sharon, Charron, Marc, Lessard, VéroniqueSummary:
Traduit de l'anglais par Véronique Lessard et Marc Charron Résumé Mahindan et son fils de six ans accostent en Colombie-Britannique avec cinq cents compatriotes réfugiés, portés par le rêve de laisser derrière eux la...
- Author:Fletcher, CrystalSummary:
Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each...
- Author:Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziSummary:
A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.