Catalog Search Results
Author
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In her first work of nonfiction, winner of the 2018 UNESCO City of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri examines what it means to be a refugee through her own story of childhood escape from Iran, and through the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers.
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought to, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along...
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers from around the world to explore and illuminate their experiences. Poignant and insightful, this collection of essays reveals moments of uncertainty, resilience int he face of trauma, and a reimagining of identity. The Displaced is a powerful look at what it means to be forced to leave home and find a place of refuge. -- Adapted...
3) Refugee
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Physical Desc
xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The aim of the book is to open a window onto the world of people who are forced to escape from their homeland to survive: refugees. The guide to this world is their own words, their stories, their hopes and expectations, and often their despair --
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An accessible picture book that oh-so-simply and graphically introduces the term 'refugee' to curious young children to help them better understand the world in which they live. Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? Why are they sometimes not welcome in their new country? In this relevant picture book for the youngest children, author-illustrator Elise Gravel explores what it means to be a refugee...
Author
Physical Desc
384 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, former schoolteacher Fereiba embarks on a high-risk effort to escape to England with her three children.
Author
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Incomplete Traveler is a human story of strength and grit in the face of a series of historical events that lead to the loss of a homeland, and the need to adapt to life in exile. The history of the Fidel Castro revolution, along with the events that preceded it, is woven throughout the experiences of the book's main character Elena, her family, and her friends. Survival is the thread that holds the story together, as Elena faces her circumstances...
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
Español
Description
¿Por qué me han levantado de la cama con tanta prisa? Aún es de noche. Partimos cargados con pocas cosas. No vamos de excursión. Todas las caras reflejan miedo y tristeza. Papá me coge muy fuerte de la mano. Me duele. Tengo ganas de llorar. Pero no lo hago. ¿Adónde vamos? ¿Por qué huimos? Son las preguntas que se plantea la protagonista de esta historia ficticia tan actual.
Why have I gotten out of bed in such a hurry? It is still night....
Author
Language
English
Description
Jesper Humlin is a poet of middling acclaim who is saddled by his underwhelming book sales, an exasperated girlfriend, a demanding mother, and a rapidly fading tan. His boy-wonder stockbroker has squandered Humlin's investments, and his editor, who says he must write a crime novel to survive, begins to pitch and promote the nonexistent book despite Humlin's emphatic refusals. Then, when he travels to Gothenburg to give a reading, he finds himself...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, driving her family from its tiny village. They flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother survive. Beginning with a refugee camp run by the British Army, the children are shunted from one temporary home to another, finally ending up in an orphanage where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then...
11) Captive witness
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 64
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trouble plagues a student tour through Europe as Nancy becomes involved in a plot to smuggle refugee children across the Austrian border from Eastern Europe.
Author
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel -- who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths -- always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing....
15) The treasure box
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
When war forces people to flee their homes, young refugee Peter carries a cherished family possession throughout a difficult period of survival before reflecting on its importance years later.
Physical Desc
xi, 231 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Country of Refuge, compiled and edited by human rights writer and activist Lucy Popescu, is an acutely relevant and tremendously thought-provoking anthology of brand new fiction, memoir, poetry and essays exploring what it really means to be a refugee. These powerful writings will change people's perspectives on the plight of those seeking asylum from conflict, poverty and terror. This testament to the strength of the human spirit features some...
18) Go, went, gone
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European...
19) Marwan's journey
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"One night they came ... The darkness grew colder, deeper, darker, and swallowed up everything ... Marwan is a young boy on a journey he never intended to take, bound for a place he doesn't know. On his journey, he relies on courage and memories of his faraway homeland to buoy him. With him are hundreds and thousands of other human beings, crossing the deserts and the seas, fleeing war and hunger in search of safety. He must take one step after another--bringing...
Author
Physical Desc
xiii, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis"--Amazon.com.
"On the day of his son's fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe -- at least for the time being -- in Egypt, where they had only just settled after fleeing their war-torn Damascus home three years prior. Traversing...
Looking for an older book we don’t have?
Printed books not owned by Santa Fe Public Library that were released more than 6 months ago can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Limit: 3 per calendar month.
Looking for a newer item we don’t have?
Suggest the library purchase a new book, DVD, audiobook, or music CD through your account. Limit: 30 active requests at a time. Submit Purchase Suggestion