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1) Boat People
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Deutsch
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Aufwühlendes Porträt einer der großen humanitären Krisen unserer Zeit
Als ein verrostetes Frachtschiff mit 500 tamilischen Flüchtlingen die Küstengewässer der Vancouver Island erreicht, glaubt Mahindan, dass er und sein sechsjähriger Sohn Sellian ein neues Leben beginnen können. Stattdessen wird Sellian den Armen seines Vaters entrissen, und Mahindan wird zusammen mit den anderen Flüchtlingen ins Gefängnis geworfen. In Regierungskreisen...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead,...
4) Boat-People
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Français
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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 guerre au Sri Lanka et d'entamer une nouvelle vie. Or le bruit court que parmi les « boat-people » se cachent des membres d'une cellule terroriste. Emprisonné, soumis à des soupçons et des interrogatoires, Mahindan voit...
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English
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In this first collection of James Aitchison's poetry, the reader will venture from parody and satire to an examination of grief and isolation. Aitchison's Australian sketches evoke our landscapes. Finally, his healing, philosophical poetry has been described as "sublime".
Aitchison's poetry is frequently published in Australia, the UK, and the USA.
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English
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I have visited Việt Nam (Vietnam) on more than a dozen occasions, mainly for business but I have also travelled through the country as a tourist. However, my knowledge and understanding of Vietnamese history, society and culture is limited so in no way am I in a position to speak authoritatively on the historical contents or any interpretation of events described in this book, The Legacy of the Vietnamese Boat People. It is written by my colleague...
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English
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The Vietnam War featured political upheavals, battle tactics, and lots of publicity. But underneath all that were everyday people whose lives were forever altered by three decades of fighting. In this memoir, author Don Lao looks back at what the people of Vietnam went through with this account of how his family went from living an honest and simple life to losing everything in a harrowing war that engulfed Southeast Asia. Lao lived an idyllic childhood...
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English
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The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history. Reporter Sally Hayden was at home in London when she received a message on Facebook: "Hi sister Sally, we need your help." The sender identified himself as an Eritrean refugee who had been held in a Libyan detention center for months, locked in one big hall with hundreds of others. Now, the city around them was crumbling...
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A United Nations staff photographer presents an overview of Vietnam's history and his impressions of some of the people, particularly children, who have fled this war-torn country.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, seventeen-year-old Jane rails against her family's Vietnamese culture and struggles with a perpetually angry father, whose traumatic journey to the United States as an eleven-year-old refugee is revealed in flashbacks.
12) Drift
Author
Publisher
Distributed by the University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Caroline Bergvall's Drift retraces the language and maritime imagination of early medieval North Atlantic travels from the sagas to quest poems to today's sea migrancies. Its centerpiece is the song cycle, "Drift," which takes the anonymous 10th century Anglo-Saxon quest poem The Seafarer as its inspiration. Both ancient and contemporary tales of travel and exile shadow the plight and losses of wanderers across the waters in this haunting new book....
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis"--
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Escape to Miami is an oral history of the experience of detainees from Guantanamo during the 1994-1996 Cuban Rafter Crisis. Through life history interviews, the book offers the gripping stories of twelve rafters while also providing a study of group-level trauma and coping. Though important as an oral history, the examination of camp culture makes the project an innovative contribution to the field of anthropology as Campisi argues that coping with...
15) Sanctuary
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
On a barren island off the coast of Western Australia, a rickety wooden dinghy runs aground. Aboard are nine people who have no idea where they are. Strangers before the violent storm that tore their vessel apart, the instinct to survive has seen them bond during their days adrift on a vast and merciless ocean. While they remain undiscovered on the deserted island, they dare to dream of a new life. But 40 kilometres away on the mainland lies the tiny...
16) Refugees
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English
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Many Americans are citizens because they were born here. But not everyone who lives here is a citizen. Ease into the process of applying for citizenship with help from this informative volume. Accompanying photos and captions familiarize readers with the citizenship test, the character check, and many other facets of the path to citizenship.
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"There was no more polarizing manager in baseball than the hot-tempered, hard-drinking, risk-taking Billy Martin. During a time of economic uncertainty and waning baseball interest in Oakland, Billy Ball filled the stands, rejuvenated fans, and saved professional baseball in the city. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin's homecoming to the Bay area in 1980, his immediate embrace...
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English
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Gold Medal in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for the best in Young Adult Fiction The International Reading Association IRA has named Weeping Under This Same Moon a Notable Book for 2009. Arts Reach Alliance - Valley Reads Selection for 2010 Weeping Under This Same Moon, by Jana Laiz is based on the true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. Mei is an...
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English
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In a peaceful village, it has been officially proven that Ku is not, as was once believed, the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by his neighbors, Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people. But refusing to renounce his high status, he-along with his teenage son-keeps his distance from the gossipy lowlifes who surround him.
Then one day a feral girl, Huixian, arrives looking for...
20) The Lilac Bow
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Language
English
Description
The Lilac Bow is the first book of poetry by the author of the collections Excalibur's Return, A Season and a Time and, most recently, Spirit Eyes. Maurice Whelan is also the author of the acclaimed novel Boat People.