5 best-selling history books like Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

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Homes: A Refugee Story

By: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

4.28

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs,…

"We can make a home anywhere we go together."

-Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Homes: A Refugee Story

If you liked the history plot in Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Imposter Bride

By: Nancy Richler

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not… read more

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  • canada
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2. Forgiveness

By: Mark Sakamoto

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The heart-rending true story of two families on either side of the Second World War-and a moving tr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. I Lived on Butterfly Hill

By: Marjorie Agosín , E.M. O'Connor

2.50

Format: 62 pages, ebook

An eleven-year-old's world is upended by political turmoil in this "lyrically ambitious tale of exi… read more

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  • cultural
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4. The Illegal

By: Lawrence Hill

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Keita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in po… read more

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  • canada

5. By Chance Alone: A Remarkable True Story of Courage and Survival at Auschwitz

By: Max Eisen

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz comes a new memoir b… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • war
  • nonfiction
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6. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • canada
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

7. Scarborough

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more

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8. Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews dur… read more

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  • war
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9. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • canada
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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10. Primadonna

By: Elisabeth Massicolli

4.07

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Camille, Montréalaise récemment expatriée à Rome, navigue dans les eaux houleuses de ses relations … read more

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11. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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  • canada
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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12. A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’

By: Otto Rosenberg

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All a… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • war
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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13. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

By: Megan Gail Coles

3.59

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize By turns savag… read more

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  • cultural
  • canada
"Fight or flight, fight or flight, fight or flight. But women aren't meant to do that anymore, Iris has learned. Stay and suffer through. Or lose your job, your house, your kids, your dog, your sanity…"

-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

"This is why people are chasing their aces all over the poorest bays. Not because they've some genuine belief that they will catch the card. They can barely catch a break at all. A century of impoveri…"

-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

"Just joking with ya, b'y. He said this readily in an unmistakable smirking way. But everyone knew he was never just joking. Not even a little bit joking. The claim provided him cover to make asinine …"

-Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

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14. Dead White Writer on the Floor

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.71

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions—theatre of the absurd and mystery nove… read more

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  • canada
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15. Raviver les volcans

By: Véronick Talbot

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Alors qu’elle vient de fêter ses 30 ans, Alexe réalise à quel point sa vie la laisse insatisfaite. … read more

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16. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • canada
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17. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By: Lindsay Wong

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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18. Rabbit Foot Bill

By: Helen Humphreys

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking mur… read more

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  • canada
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19. Homes: A Refugee Story

By: Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

4.28

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs,… read more

Similar categories in Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's Homes: A Refugee Story book and Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's Homes: A Refugee Story

  • cultural
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • politics
  • war
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"We can make a home anywhere we go together."

-Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Homes: A Refugee Story

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20. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

3.65

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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21. Post-partum : les hauts et les bas du quatrième trimestre

By: Valerie Roberts

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Le quatrième trimestre est la période qui s’écoule entre la naissance d’un bébé et sa douzième sem… read more

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  • nonfiction

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