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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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"Nobel Peace Prize winner Yousafzai shares her own story of displacement, along with the personal stories of some of the incredible girls she has met on her various journeys to refugee camps and the cities where refugee girls and their families have settled"--Provided by publisher.
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2020.
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Documents the experiences and fates of the one million concentration camp survivors, POWs, slave laborers, and political prisoners left in Germany after World War II who spent years as displaced refugees in unsupported, segregated, and poorly converted buildings while the world's nations refused shelter.
4) Displacement
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In this collection of poetry, J.E. Mori touches on an array of subjects – love, marriage, solitude, spirituality, virtue, and other phenomena, such as: time, peace, disability, affect of entertainment, and the art of question. Displacement comes at the reader in terms of relative position, a progressive take on life; however, the direction isn't clearly defined. Drawing inspiration from the world around him, Mori examines how often it's likely that...
5) Displacement
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Leslie Harrison's collection marks the arrival of an assured new poetic voice. Chosen as the winner of the 2008 Bakeless Prize in poetry by guest judge Eavan Boland, Displacement addresses questions of place and, of course, displacement-from marriage and home-and explores the aftershocks of being uprooted physically and emotionally. Paired with Harrison's natural, keen sense of rhythm, the central themes of impermanence and loss are heightened by...
6) Displaced
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When Kevin Murdock, martial artist and outdoorsman extraordinaire, is revived from suspended animation aboard a transport pod, he and his nine fellow occupants have no idea what to expect.Murdock argues for caution after seeing something strange: animals also inhabit their new environment, all of them larger than their Earthly counterparts. Conflict soon erupts between Murdock and James Whittier - a politician with a lust for power and control.But...
7) Displacement
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A travel memoir recounting the artist's experience of caring for her frail grandparents aboard a cruise ship, while reflecting on her own fears on mortality, her age, and her family's relationships and history.
8) Displaced
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In this gripping and eye-opening novel, two Syrian refugee teens trying to make a living on the street corners of Beirut must decide how far they’re willing to go to make a home for their family in an unwelcoming country. Thirteen-year-old Hadi Toma and his family are displaced. At least that’s what the Lebanese government calls them and the thousands of other Syrian refugees that have flooded into Beirut. But as Hadi tries to earn money to feed...
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For fans of Holly Black's “The Cruel Prince”, Ilona Andrews' “Kate Daniels” Series, and Karen Marie Moning's “Fever” Series, Bridget E. Baker begins a saga of shocking truths, deadly intrigue, violent battle, and sisterly betrayal. My mom should have killed me the day I was born. Being a twin complicates the Evian line of succession, but Chancery Alamecha is fine letting Judica inherit the throne. After all, she's the stronger sister,...
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Irving Levy is a man with few roots and, now that he is terminally ill, is anxious to find anyone to whom he can leave his considerable property. When he learns that there may be more to the disappearance of his younger sister, who disappeared when she was a baby, he engages the services of Hakim and Arnold to investigate. Unwittingly in mortal danger, the private detectives and Levy enter the world of Barking Park Fair and the secrets its brightly...
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After spending the last century off-planet in the Kuiper Belt, exo-miner Quatrain Dyer awakens from stasis to an agonizing toothache and an unnerving sense of displacement. Why is he in his hive's old recspace? Why is all his gear still here? And why hasn't the reintegration team from CAGE Dynamics met him? The answers Quatrain discovers will turn his reality inside out...
12) Burma Displaced
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We hear the stories of the people who were able to flee Burma. They live as illegal workers in neighbouring countries, in refugee camps in Bangladesh, as tourist attractions in Thailand. Burma only lives in their memories. We meet the Rap Group "Myanmar Future Generation" who sing about Burma's tragic history. Their common hope: a better life, a freed Burma.
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Bob Wilkinson is sad. It was less than a week ago when the 18-year-old crashed his senior prom alongside his best friend, class clown Pete Dimkowski, only to find their classmates missing and the downtown Chicago venue a gruesome crime scene. The abductions have since given Bob the opportunity to spend time with his dream girl, head cheerleader Lori Rainsmith, who arrived on the scene the same time as he and Pete. Bob isn't in like Flint, however....
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A cold-war comedy of errors ensues, when an experimental Agamemnon XI ICBM lands in the small town of Dexter, Pennsylvania. The small town of Dexter experiences panic at the missile's landing, of course. Mike Brewer, the editor for Dexter's newspaper convinces the town's mayor, Leon Gladfelter, to phone a night duty officer at the Pentagon... But the Department of Defense won't accept responsibility for the error, so Mayor Gladfelter exercises the...
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Echoing the fiction of Joseph Kanon, Alan Furst, and Daniel Silva, this deeply intelligent debut literary thriller-set within a world still reeling from World War II-explores how the actions of a few can change the course of history.
British-occupied Palestine, 1946: Elderly writer Elias Lind isn't convinced by reports that his scientist brother, Raphael, died in a concentration camp. Too frail to search for Raphael himself, Elias persuades a contact...
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Rainbow hair. Inked skin. New magic. Strange world.Effie Thropp is no longer in Oz. She's in a strange world where no one bats an eye at her green skin, but she still feels out of place until she finds new magic that helps her fit in. Is this magic powerful enough to work in Oz? There's only one way to know, but is she willing to risk her new life to find out?
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What do you get when you send teenagers from 1987 to a cold, dark future where freedom is in short supply? Something totally radical, of course.
High school seniors Bob Wilkinson, Pete Dimkowski, and Lori Rainsmith find their affluent suburban lives upended after they arrive late to prom and find their classmates missing and among those abducted and sent forward hundreds of years in time and millions of miles through space to work as forced laborers...
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About the story; From birth between the Two World Wars and just after the Great World Depression, then to childhood right through the Second World War and surviving the Siege of Budapest, a young boy reaches early teens. Still bearing the naiveté of childhood in spite of many jarring adventures and surviving harsh events, to find himself at the threshold of leaving an old and entering a brand new world, around the other side of the globe.
Then through...
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Set in Georgia during the late 1940's, a Polish refugee (Mr. Guizac) who is relocated by a priest (John Houseman) to work on Mrs. McIntyre's (Irene Worth) farm. Quickly the industrious and clever Mr. Guizac becomes a threat to the other farmworkers. Soon all are plotting Mr. Guizac's downfall until fate unexpectedly takes a hand. Two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter Horton Foote crafts the screenplay in this powerful, timely and shocking story.
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