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Publisher
Genius Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Despite his allegiance to the toppled South Vietnamese government, Long Nguyen decides to remain in Vietnam. Imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp, he urges his family to make the escape by boat without him. His wife, son, and mother embark on the arduous ocean voyage in the hope of reaching the U.S. and freedom
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After her mom is taken by ICE, seventeen-year-old Rania's hopes and dreams for the future are immediatly put on hold as she figures out how take care of her younger brother and survive in a country that seems to be closing around them.
Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
149 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A story of exile on a Romanian woman in Berlin. Of German extraction, she thought she would have a better life in Germany, but instead she suffers from loneliness. The man she desires ignores her and her admirer does not interest her. By the author of The Land of Green Plums
27) Beyond the gates
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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...
29) The last witness
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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
Classical Comics
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the play in graphic novel form with a modern English translation, where the wizard Prospero and his daughter Miranda are stranded on an enchanted island and learn about both revenge and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
37 Ink, Atria
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this rare insider's view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom. "The General will now enter the room." Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I direct my eyes to a point halfway up the archway where Kim Jong-il's face will soon appear... As North Korea's State Poet Laureate, Jang Jin-sung led a charmed...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the Bowery chronicles three days in the drinking life of Ray Salyer, who lived in lower Manhattan on Bowery Street. The film jump-started the post-war American independent film movement, earning an Oscar nomination.
Good times, Wonderful times was Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. Includes collected archive footage of war atrocities interspersed with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chat.
Out is a documentary...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
112 pages : chiefly illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Simon Schwartz was born in 1982 in the GDR (East Germany). One and a half years later, he left the country with his parents, and the family resettled in West Berlin. As political dissidents, his parents experienced harassment by the Stasi and a lack of understanding from members of their own family. This striking graphic novel memoir chronicles the family's difficult journey to get to the other side of the Berlin Wall"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xi, 654 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1945, German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, effectively putting an end to World War II in Europe. But the aftershocks of this global military conflict did not cease with the signing of truces and peace treaties. Millions of lost and homeless POWs, slave laborers, political prisoners, and concentration camp survivors overwhelmed Germany, a country in complete disarray. British and American soldiers gathered the malnourished and...
39) To bear any burden: the Vietnam War and its aftermath in the words of Americans and Southeast Asians
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1985
Physical Desc
xxii, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The forty-eight American and Asian witnesses who recount their stories in this book are survivors of a great cataclysm, the Vietnam War. The veterans, refugees, and officials who speak here come from widely divergent backgrounds yet combine to narrate a synchronous chronicle, a human-scale history of the war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Reading their narratives, we hear them reliving crucial moments in the preparation, execution, and aftermath of...
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