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1) Refugee
Author
Language
English
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Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 4
Language
English
Description
Shortly after a famous mystery author moves to Cape Refuge, two teenage girls are found murdered in circumstances that mirror crime scenes in the author's books, and Police Chief Cade must act quickly after another teenage girl disappears.
3) Cape Refuge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
The murders of Thelma and Wayne Owens have rocked the peaceful Cape Refuge community. This honest, Christian couple ran Hanover House, a halfway house that was also their ministry. When their son-in-law is accused of the crime, the Owens' daughter, Morgan, must struggle to clear her husband's name and keep Hanover House open.
Author
Series
Secret refuge volume 1
Language
English
Description
At her dying father's request, Jesselyne Atwood takes her family's Thoroughbreds and heads for safety to escape the Civil War. A Secret Refuge book 1.
Author
Language
English
Description
Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies... and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept.
Author
Language
English
Description
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar's nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, his only family member remaining, every day. An intimate look at the...
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, nineteen-year-old Audrey, the daughter of English nobility and facially scarred by her abusive, mentally ill sister, seeks God's protection when she runs away from an arranged marriage proposal, to find true love, safety, and a purpose to her life.
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
Blair Owens, a former doubter, comes to depend on God for help when she sets out to discover what happened to Cade, the Cape Refuge police chief who disappeared shortly after hitting and killing a man who walked out in front of his car, and who is now suspected of having some connection to the dead man's wife.
10) River's edge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Mayoral candidate Ben Jackson seems to have the election locked. But when Jackson's wife turns up murdered, things begin to shift. Was this the act of a jealous lover? A dangerous client? Or is this all about the election?
11) The refugees
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of stories, written over a twenty-year period, examines the Vietnamese experience in America as well as questions of home, family, and identity.
12) Lady knight
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 4
Language
English
Description
When she became a knight, eighteen-year-old Kel hoped to be given a combat post, but instead she finds herself named commander of an outpost of refugees, where she must face the unnatural forces of the evil Balyce.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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Description
Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
17) Horde
Author
Series
Razorland volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Protecting a group of refugees after Freaks burn down Salvation, Deuce and her companions decide to raise a defensive army despite everyone's misgivings about a female war leader, a situation complicated by Fade's struggles with trauma.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In an unnamed city with strict social mores, young Nadia is a rebel, an atheist who chooses to live and work independently. In religious and unassuming Saeed she finds the perfect companion. As the two fall in love, their romance is tinged with a sense of urgency and inevitability as the city falls to militia, and basic freedoms and food quickly become rarities. When the situation turns dire, Saeed and Nadia decide to migrate as thousands already...
19) Honor's refuge
Author
Series
Love and honor (Bridgeman) volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Phil Osbourne of Special Forces A-Team returned home from the military missing a leg and feeling like half a man, but Melisa Braxton has loved him since they met. When things take a dangerous turn at the women's shelter where Melissa works, Phil must overcome wounds both seen and unseen to find a strength long buried-and save the woman he loves"--
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