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1) Sea prayer
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Sea Prayer is composed in the form of a letter, from a father to his son, on the eve of their journey. Watching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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When World War II threatens Renato's home of Florence, Renato and his family must leave his beloved, art-filled city for America, but Renato worries about protecting his favorite sculpture--the stone lion in the Piazza della Signoria. Includes author's note.
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May, 1941. At four in the morning, the Santa rosa - a rust-streaked tramp freighter flying the Spanish flag - steams up the Tagus River to load cargo at the port of Lisbon. The ship is a Dutch freighter under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan. Sailing for British Royal Navy Intelligence, she will load equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast - a secret mission, a dark voyage. One more battle in the spy wars, a battle for survival...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"Take the format of a spy thriller, shape it around real-life incidents involving international terrorism, leaven it with dark, dry humor, toss in a love rectangle, give everybody a gun, and let everything play out in the outer reaches of upstate New York [where a Danish cartoonist is relocated after having been involved in the controversy surrounding a depiction of Muhammad]"--Amazon.com.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"1955 in New York City, the city of progress. But in the Perlman residence, the past is as close as the present. Rachel Perlman, a child of Berlin and an artist bearing her mother's legacy, arrives in New York as part of the wave of Jewish Displaced persons who managed to survive the brutalities of the war. But despite her efforts, Rachel is unable to live the "normal" life of an American housewife, not until she can shake the ghosts of her past and...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Newbery Honor recipient Margi Preus tells the incredible true story of a group of French teenagers who helped save refugees in WWII Based on the true story of the French villagers in WWII who saved thousands of Jews, this novel tells how a group of young teenagers stood up for what is right. Among them is a young Jewish boy who learns to forge documents to save his mother and later goes on to save hundreds of lives with his forgery skills. There is...
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In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...
15) The gypsy moon
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
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"Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of Germany only to be trapped in Holland?"--Provided by publisher.
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2016.
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Tommy Wieringa traces two stories doomed to collide. In one, he follows a group of starving, near-feral Eurasian refugees on a harrowing quest for survival; in the other, he follows Pontus Beg, a policeman from a small border town on the steppe, as he investigates the death of a rabbi, one of the town’ s two remaining Jews.
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Crown Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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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.
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In a seemingly idyllic German village during World War II, the daughter of one of Hitler's cabinet members, who has been helping to smuggle Jewish refugees over the nearby Swiss border, hides two refugee children in her home, only to learn that the Führer is coming to visit.
20) Munich signature
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Zion covenant volume 3
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
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The third book in the Zion Covenant series, continuing the breathtaking drama of Vienna Prelude and Prague Counterpoint. 800 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution set sail on a battered freighter with no harbor that will take them in.
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