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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"The inspiring story of a young Armenian's harrowing escape from genocide and of his granddaughter's quest to retrace his steps. Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan's story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan's life--and the lost home her family fled--Dawn travels alone to Turkey and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teenager leaves his fiancé behind in their Anatolian village to make a new life in Canada for both of them. But when World War I breaks out, he is sent to an internment camp while his betrothed struggles to survive and find a way to join him"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Katerina longs to know why her late grandmother, Miriam, refused to talk about the past, especially when she inherits a journal and handwritten letters stashed in a wooden spice box, cryptic treasures written in Armenian, Miriam's mother tongue. On vacation in Cyprus, Katerina finds the key to unlocking her grandmother's secrets and discovers a family legacy of exile and loss. Aged seven, Miriam was expelled from her home in Eastern Turkey and witnessed...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 533 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to...
45) Jakob's colors
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Running for his life wearing bloodstained sackcloth shoes in 1944 Austria, a young Romany boy assesses his multicultural legacy through the stories of his parents in 1920s Switzerland and England.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This rare testimony of a survivor of the Armenian genocide tells the dramatic story of John Minassian, a young man who witnessed the loss of his family and friends but managed to escape with his life by concealing his identity and connecting with an underground network of survivors, ultimately building a new life in the United States."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The story of the author's mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother's voice...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 398 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level--turning neighbors, friends, and even family members against one another--as seen through the eastern European border town of Buczacz during World War II." -- Amazon.com.
"For more than four hundred years, the Eastern European border town of Buczacz--today part of Ukraine--was home to Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews, all living side by side in relative harmony....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II, and how America allowed them to get away with it.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic for the Free Burma Rangers during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Description
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers comes a novel about the tangled histories of two families. In her second novel written in English, Elif Shafak confronts her country's violent past in a vivid and colorful tale set in both Turkey and the United States. At its center is the "bastard" of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family...
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Author
Series
Box 88 volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran agent Lachlan Kite--za spy for the 21st centuryy (Daily Mail)--reckons with the fallout from a mission in Senegal carried out early in his career. 1995: In the wake of the Rwandan genocide, 24-year-old spy Lachlan Kite and his girlfriend, Martha Raine, are sent to Senegal on the trail of a hunted war criminal. The mission threatens to spiral out of control, forcing Kite to make choices which will have devastating consequences not only for...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 251 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring real life story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
A refugee’s escape, a prisoner’s promise, and a daughter’s painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, evens as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
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