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Hutchison, Patricia Iftin, Abdi Nor Lindhout, Amanda. McCormick, Ty Peterson, Scott.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 IFTHutchison, Patricia
Summary: "Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of Somali immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 HUTLindhout, 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 LINLindhout, 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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Summary: "As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother, he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse that has had an impact far beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.329 PETMcCormick, Ty
Summary: "From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspectof life revolved around getting to America-a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUSSEIN, ASAD MCCContents: Daraadaa muxibo (Dur-Dur Band) -- Hab isii (Omar Shooli) -- Check up your head (Mukhtar R. Iidi) -- Geesiyada Halgamayow (Bakaka Band) -- Waakaa Helaa (F. Qassim & Shareero) -- Sirmaqabe (Iftin Band) -- Baayo (Mukhtar Ramadan Iidi) -- Hoobeya (Shimaali & Killer) -- Shaleedayaa ; Ladaney (Dur-Dur Band) --Godonimada jira (Bakaka Band) -- Ii ooy aniga (Iftin Band).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019