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Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESHaitiwaji, Gulbahar
Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAITIWAJI, GULBAHAR HAICrippa, Luca
Summary: "Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRASSE, WILHELM CRIHesse, Monica
Summary: Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESSolzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Summary: Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2007
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Summary: The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II; where thousands of families, many US citizens, were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 RUSSummary: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempts to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. Operatic and disturbing, it deftly examines the lasting social and psychological effects of the Nazi regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSchneider, Helga.
Summary: "Helga Schneider was four when her mother abandoned her, her younger brother, and her father in Berlin in 1941. Thirty years later, the first time that she saw her mother again, Schneider learned the shocking reason: Her mother had joined the Nazi SS and had become a guard in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was in charge of a "correction" unit and responsible for untold acts...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8743 SCHSolzhenit͡syn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Summary: "In this masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn has orchestrated thousands of incidents and individual histories into one narrative of unflagging power and momentum. Written in a tone that encompasses Olympian wrath, bitter calm, savage irony, and sheer comedy, it combines history, autobiography, documentary, and political analysis as it examines in its totality the Soviet apparatus of repression from its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.45 SOLVan Sickle, Emily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Academy Chicago Publishers 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5317 VANSMeissner, Susan
Summary: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEIRobbins, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBTurkel, Nury
Summary: Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURKEL, NURY TURByler, Darren
Summary: "Novel forms of state violence and colonization have been unfolding for years in China's vast northwestern region, where more than a million and a half Uyghurs and others have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2021
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Summary: "Experience the events that followed the Sobibor death camp prisoner's decision to escape. Readers will discover a powerful story of human courage and mankind's fierce will to live."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: World’s smallest 15-inch essential business notebook* with first-of-it's-kind Dell Optimizer AI that adjusts to how you work wherever you are. Includes mobile hotspot so you have access where you may be.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Hargrave, Catherine Perry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.409 HARKatsu, Alma
Summary: "From the acclaimed and award-winning author of The Hunger and The Deep comes a new psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in World War II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC KATSummary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORKamei, Susan H.
Summary: "An oral history about Japanese internment during World War II, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, from the perspective of children and young people affected"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.53 KAMSummary: Focusing mostly on type 2 diabetes, this program is designed to help the layperson-especially patients who have been newly diagnosed-understand the physiological impact of the illness, complications associated with it, and important steps to prevent or decrease the risk of complications. The video explains the links between type 2 diabetes and factors such as obesity, advanced age, physical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Romm, Aviva Jill
Summary: "A Yale-trained, board-certified family physician with a specialty in women's health and obstetrics delivers a proven 28-day program to heal the overwhelmed, overloaded systems, and prevent and reverse the myriad of symptoms affecting the vast majority of women today. Weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, hormonal imbalances, and autoimmune conditions--for years, health practitioners have commonly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2017