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Displaced volume 1
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The city of Oshawa, Ontario has vanished without a trace. Even worse, nobody remembers it or the 170,000 missing residents that disappeared along with it.
As the survivors also fall into the forgotten, they must seek each other out, if they hope to have any chance of surviving in a world where no one believes they exist…
Highly acclaimed writer Ed Brisson (Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Predator), rising star artist Luca Casalanguida (Regarding...
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Is fate negotiable?
Yaniqui's finally made it to the supposed safety of Earth, but at what cost? Her mother's missing, galactic corporations hunt her for her healing abilities, and she has to live with the man she once loved who's now married to someone else.
Unbeknownst to Yaniqui, her fate will depend on others also chasing a brighter future. Ippa, once disgraced by university expulsion, has been captured by a bounty contractor en route to Yaniqui....
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How researchers used Missional Action Research to make a real difference for displaced persons in Colombia
Christian scholars are often motivated to live the gospel by serving the vulnerable. But how do we put our academic research to practical use to help those in need? Christopher M. Hays explains how his interdisciplinary team of theologians, social scientists, pastors, and local partners combined efforts to support internally displaced...
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"When Tania was six years old, she and her parents fled Ukraine during World War II. For years they were refugees in Europe, displaced and without permanent residence. Finally, they found safe housing in a refugee camp, but what about home? Day by day, they stitched together new lives, but it wasn't until a memory of Tania's babushka and her beloved sunflowers that the family at last began to rebuild a sense of home. This true account about debut...
5) Martyr!
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"A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum"--
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2023]
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"In this photographic picture book, the authors record and transcribe the words of displaced children, raising up their voices-who they are, where they came from, and the many different reasons that they had to leave their home country"--
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Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to Greece, Trinidad & Tobago, and Syracuse, New York, holding storytelling workshops with hundreds of displaced youth: those living in and outside of camps, as well as those adjusting to life after resettlement.
Combining Badr's own poetry with the personal narratives and creative contributions of dozens of young refugees, While the Earth Sleeps We Travel seeks...
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Raises awareness of plight of refugees and internally displaced people
Perfect gift for the globally conscious humanitarian
Lavishly reproduced artwork in elegant hardcover coffee table format
Ideal feature for International Women's Day (March 8), Women's History Month (March), World Refugee Day (June 20)
Publisher profits donated to charity
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Famous Romans volume 7
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English
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Rome had conquered Carthage, only to wind up divided against itself as wealth displaced virtue and undermined the constitution. Seeing the urgent need for reform, these descendants of the Scipio line prepared to sacrifice everything to achieve it.
10) A Boy Like Me
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A Boy Like Me - A Wordless Picture Book for Children (Aged 4-8)This unique wordless picture book tells a story simply through illustration and is crafted to gently facilitate dialogue, spark meaningful conversations with young readers, and promote healthy communication with children on the complex and moving topic of displacement. It explores the uncertainty the boy experiences, but the story ends on a hopeful and heartening note when the little boy...
11) Indian Removal
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The Trail of Tears stands as a hallmark of the pain and displacement Indigenous peoples endured, but it was not the whole story. Readers will be introduced to the many removals that occurred throughout the United States and how those acts shaped Indigenous cultures today. The Racial Justice in America: Indigenous Peoples series explores the issues specific to the Indigenous communities in the United States in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
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The Biblical story of Eden is one of innocence, suffering, estrangement, displacement, self-consciousness, awakening, and separation. But it is also a story of hope, about the gaining wisdom and self-knowledge. It is about the costs of maturation and a reckoning with our own mortality. In THE FIRST FAMILY, author Bruce Chilton presents a vision of a near, knowable Eden, an Eden that may have been damaged but is not lost.
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Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021
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In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.
Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass
14) Bow
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Displaced by a terrible war that rages across the land, Felix and his son Samuel pack up their meager belongings and travel in search of safety. Having exhausted the last of their coin, Felix seeks out the lady of a noble house and is offered an unexpected boon which will provide Samuel with a secure future while granting him a simple refuge. He thus resigns himself to the fate of a recluse whose lonely days are punctuated only by visits from Cassandra,...
15) Redemption
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"Before I even knew what love meant, I felt it for you, and it's made my time on earth more meaningful."
After devoting months to bettering the lives of those displaced by Agro's reign of terror, Brietta and Kegan are ready to dive into their wedding countdown, but their dreams begin to crumble when tragedy strikes the refugee camp, endangering everyone inside.
Thrust into a terrifying world of uncertainty, Brietta and Kegan must embrace a love...
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Isabel, raised in a family of post-war Jewish immigrants in Canada, embarks on a journey to find love, purpose and home, navigating between Montreal and Jerusalem. In Here Is Still Here, Sivan Slapak explores human connection and identity with compassion and wit, reminding us that no matter how far you go, you remain yourself.
Where can one go when Here Is Still Here?
Raised in a family of post-war Jewish refugees in Canada, Isabel feels...
17) Eigen's Paradox
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Word count: 82 473 The world isn't as it seems, strange and aberrant things occur. Eigen not only discovers this but also a gateway to another world. Join him as he straddles these two worlds and unravels their mysteries and how they are linked. He must return a displaced princess to her world and in so doing he uncovers that the monstrous Children of Tartarus are breaking free of their bonds, endangering the world of Nimma. What can an average teenager...
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Get the Summary of Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri's They Called Me a Lioness in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "They Called Me a Lioness" is a memoir by Ahed Tamimi, chronicling her life in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, under the shadow of the Israeli settlement Halamish. The book details the history of the Palestinian struggle against Zionist ambitions and the establishment of Israel, which led to the displacement...
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With her third poetry collection, I Must Belong Somewhere, acclaimed writer Dawn Lanuza is returning to her most popular literary platform. Written during her year of rest and travel, this new collection speaks to the indescribable feelings of displacement and longing for the companionship she left behind. Touching on the difficult themes of body image, death, bullying, sexism, mental health, and injury, Lanuza brings her contemporary views and powerful...
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Get the Summary of Brian Merchant's Blood in the Machine in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Blood in the Machine" delves into the socio-economic turmoil of early 19th-century England, where the Industrial Revolution's rise of automated machinery threatened traditional livelihoods. George Mellor, a skilled cropper, and Gravener Henson, a framework knitter and activist, become central figures in the narrative, representing...
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