Iftin, Abdi Nor

Summary: Adapted from the adult memoir, an intimate portrait of modern immigration describes how the author's family was forced by war to leave their home in Somalia before he received an opportunity to win the annual U.S. visa lottery.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 IFT

Lindhout, Amanda.

Summary: "The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LINDHOUT, AMANDA LIN

Lindhout, Amanda.

Summary: Amanda Lindhout's intimate account illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of her abductors. Kept in chains, starved and abused, she survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Pr 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 070.92 LIN