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1) Last Chance
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 85 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Last Chance tells the stories of 5 asylum seekers who flee their native countries to escape homophobic violence. They face hurdles integrating into Canada, fear deportation and anxiously await a decision that will change their lives forever.
2) The tempest
Author
Series
Timeless Shakespeare
University paperbacks volume 284
Pelican Shakespeare
Graphic Shakespeare volume set 1
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University paperbacks volume 284
Pelican Shakespeare
Graphic Shakespeare volume set 1
More Series...
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The play is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skillful manipulation. The tempest brings to the island Prospero's usurping brother Antonio and the complicit Alonso, King of Naples. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's low nature, the redemption of Alonso, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 80 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
The film opens with the Australian government’s surprise announcement to build Tasmania’s first detention centre for 400 male asylum seekers at Pontville on the outskirts of Hobart. The local community erupts with hostility as the Department of Immigration host a public meeting. When a suggestion is made at the local knitting club, to make beanies for the asylum seekers, not everyone is in support. Knitter and elderly Christian woman Mary is strongly...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many people attempted daring escapes over the Berlin Wall, and most failed, giving their lives for the hope of freedom. This is the true story of one child, Peter Wetzel, and his family's daring escape from East Berlin to West Berlin via handmade hot air balloon in 1979"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Continuing this propulsive middle grade nonfiction series, a young woman once persecuted by the Taliban shares her journey to becoming a community activist. As a girl and as part of an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, Freshta Tori Jan was persecuted relentlessly. Her family faced kidnappings and daily murder attempts on the bus, on the way to school, in the workplace, and beyond. Freshta's school was shut down by the Taliban, and many of her friends...
9) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
10) The far country
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1952
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A doctor for Hitler's army escapes to Australia to begin a new life. Romance blooms with a young Englishwoman but the secret of his past threatens their happiness.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a family forced to emigrate from war-torn Laos after the chaos of the secret air war waged by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, to the mean streets of New York City. Kuras has spent the last 23 years chronicling the family's extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a boy and his father who endure danger and difficulties when they escape by boat from Vietnam, spend days at sea, and then months in refugee camps before making their way to the United States.
13) Beyond the gates
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In April 1994 the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda crashes, and the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, Christopher, a Catholic priest and Joe Connor, an idealistic English teacher give sanctuary to twenty-five hundred Rwandans survivors in the school, which is under the protection of the UN Belgian force and under siege from the Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the UN, they...
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"CLING. Don't let go. Hold tight. Never give up. FLY. Rev up. Lift off. Soar. PEDAL. Set off. Cycle. Pedal for your life. Throughout history, ordinary people have been forced to leave their families and homes because of war, famine, slavery, intolerance, economic and political upheaval, or climate change. These remarkable true stories of escape show how courageous people all around the world have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their...
16) The last witness
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journalist risks his life to uncover a refugee's connection to the British government's cover up of one of Stalin's most notorious crimes.
Author
Publisher
Word Horde
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Senator William Esquival is in a rush to save his family's life. Fleeing political persecution, William takes his family from the capital and flees to the family stronghold of Rio Rojo, a town known as the birthplace of William's ancestor, a powerful former dictator whose legacy haunts the nation of Antioch. But even as the Esquival family seeks refuge, the country continues to fray around them. As Antioch bleeds, ancient hatreds, secrets, and ghosts...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 499 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic, real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist Revolution--a precursor to the struggles faced by emigrants today. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious...
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