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Refugee Awareness Month June
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Live from Cairo : a novel
by Ian Bassingthwaighte
An Iraqi refugee finds herself trapped in 2011 Cairo after being denied permission to join her husband in America and must rely on her foolhardy attorney, who has feelings for her and a not quite legal plan to get her out.
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Exit west : a novel
by Mohsin Hamid
Two young lovers engage in a furtive affair shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives
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Sea prayer
by Khaled Hosseini
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner presents an evocatively illustrated tribute to the tragic human realities of today's refugee crisis in the form of a father's letter to his young son on the eve of a dangerous journey
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Firefly
by Henry Porter
An ex-MI6 agent-turned-detective races to find a 13-year-old refugee in the mountains of Macedonia who holds vital intelligence about a terrorist threat targeting the center of Europe.
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Music of the ghosts
by Vaddey Ratner
Returning to the Cambodian homeland she fled as a child refugee decades earlier, Teera finds herself in a country of survivors and perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge holocaust before bonding with a mysterious musician who claims to have known her late father.
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Unspeakable things
by Kathleen Spivack
An 8-year-old girl learns about her family's thrilling, eccentric and sometimes surreal past in imperial Russia after they've sought refuge in early -1940s New York, in a debut novel from an award-winning poet. A first novel.
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A land of permanent goodbyes
by Atia Abawi
After their home in Syria is bombed, Tareq, his father, and his younger sister seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa, a stronghold for the militant group, Daesh, and then abroad
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City of saints and thieves
by Natalie C. Anderson
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets
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Illegal
by Eoin Colfer
Resolved to join the siblings who left months earlier, 12-year-old Ebo ventures through the Sahara and the dangerous streets of Tripoli before embarking on a hazardous voyage from Ghana to a safe haven in Europe.
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The bone sparrow
by Zana Fraillon
Born and raised in an Australian detention center where his mother and sister are being held far from their violent homeland, Subhi escapes into imaginative fantasies about a magical nighttime world before connecting with a tragedy-marked girl on the other side of the fence.
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The night diary
by Veera Hiranandani
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary
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What the night sings : a novel
by Vesper Stamper
Lushly illustrated with evocative imagery, a poignant tale about a young Holocaust survivor finds her struggling to survive, rebuild and come to terms with the losses of her family and everything she knew after being liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for a fellow survivor.
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Under the same sky : from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America
by Joseph Kim
A man who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea, despite being abandoned as a boy, tells the story of his survival inside the oppressive country, his escape and subsequent rescue by activists and Christian missionaries and his success in the United States thanks to a newfound faith and courage.
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The girl who smiled beads : a story of war and what comes after
by Clemantine Wamariya
Traces the author's harrowing experiences as a young child during the Rwanda massacres and displacements, which separated her from her parents and forced the author and her older sister to endure six years as refugees in seven countries, foraging for survival and encountering unexpected acts of cruelty and kindness before she was granted asylum in a profoundly different America.
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The new odyssey : the story of the twenty-first-century refugee crisis
by Patrick Kingsley
An award-winning Guardian journalist and migration correspondent presents a searing account of the international refugee crisis to illuminate the realities of today's mass-scale forced migrations, describing the ongoing safety challenges imposed on refugees in 17 countries.
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