The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
By: Clemantine Wamariya
4.19
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of dislocation, survival, and the power of the imagination to save us Clemantine …
Want to Read $ 11.99"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
"She wanted to tell a true story, a complete story. No ending ever felt right. History made it hard."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
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1. Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis
By: Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 2015, more than one million migrants and refugees, most fleeing war-torn countries in Africa and… read more
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2. Il suono di mille silenzi
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Format: 250 pages, Paperback
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3. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
By: Philip Gourevitch
3.36
Format: None pages,
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone… read more
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4. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
5. A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.07
Format: 154 pages,
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6. Broken Memory: A Story of Rwanda
By: Shelley Tanaka , Elisabeth Combres
3.62
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Hiding behind a chair, five-year-old Emma can't see her mother being murdered, but she hears everyt… read more
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7. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
8. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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9. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 470 pages, ebook
Volume One is mainly about the second Indochina war (Vietnam War) and is set during the period from… read more
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"The Vietnamese soldier said, “Before I spoke to her, I had given her a cooked ration of rice. Instead of her being grateful for the meal, she abused me! What gives with these Kampuchean People?"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"As well, I want our special force commandos to silently slip into Cat Bi and Gia Lam airfields and destroy the aircraft stationed there. That will deal the French forces at Dien Bien Phu a stunning b…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
"On the 30th of April 1975, American helicopters flew out of Saigon in an ignominious retreat as the tanks of the People’s Liberation Army of Vietnam rumbled into the grounds of the American Embassy i…"-Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
10. Magenta
By: John Payton Foden
4.27
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human c… read more
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"There was a story out there, in a scary place, and she had to bear witness."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"She polished her words like smooth river rocks lying perfectly organized in brilliant rainbow shades under crystal clear, slow moving water."-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan, please, get to work. Take a picture of this. You want a photo? Of this? War in all its ugliness. A Pulitzer Prize awaits. You want me to document a war crime? Your war crime? Yes. I do. Yo…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
"Stefan with his camera at the ready photographed a church and mosque and synagogue reduced to a cross and a crescent and a star, solitary monuments to what people once believed. They silently passed…"-John Payton Foden, Magenta
11. Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
By: Kenneth Schmitt
4.39
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Quantum physics has shown us the way to mastery of life in our recognition of universal consciousne… read more
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"What is real for us is what we observe and recognize. We create our own experiences by our recognition and imagination, and we modulate the energies with our emotions."-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
"The birth of quantum physics brought science and spirituality into alignment. It was the realization by physicists that photons have consciousness, and not just limited consciousness, but awareness o…"-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
"This is a quantum universe. Everything in it is part of quantum theory, and universal consciousness is the first cause of it all. Everything is electromagnetic energy, and all of the energy patterns …"-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
"When we hold health and abundance in our self-identity, we create experiences of that quality. If we choose to be attuned to the energy of our heart and feel love and compassion, we create experience…"-Kenneth Schmitt, Quantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1: Aligning with Universal Consciousness
12. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
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"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
13. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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4.46
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15. The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
By: Clemantine Wamariya
4.19
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
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"Now it felt like I did nothing. I had everything and I did nothing."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
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"But clean, in that dress, holding Marietta and Freddy’s hands, I felt like somebody’s somebody."-Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
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16. The Ungrateful Refugee
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4.05
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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"Unlike economic migrants, refugees have no agency; they are no threat. Often, they are so broken, they beg to be remade into the image of the native. As recipients of magnanimity, they can be pitied.…"-Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee
17. Black Boys Like Me: Confrontations with Race, Identity, and Belonging
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4.31
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18. The Lion Women of Tehran
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4.50
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19. Il gioco sporco. L'uso dei migranti come arma impropria (Italian Edition)
By: Valerio Nicolosi
4.44
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers
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4.49
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21. The Disappeared
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4.48
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