Author: Amanuel Mehreteab
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
ISBN: 9781569021934
Category : Eritrea
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In the 1990s, after 30 years of war with neighbouring Ethiopia, Eritrea won its independence and embarked on the monumental task of recostruction. At the heart of this effort was the quest of hundreds of thousands of returning refugees and demobilised soldiers who hopde to make new lives for themselves and their families. This book examines, through first-hand accounts, the obstacles these returnees, mainly women, faced. He also looks at the role of the new government and aid organisations in the process, and explores how gender issues had an impact.

Author: Arden Baila and Melissa Baila
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491741619
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Ten-year-old girls Kat, Tiff, Amy, and Hanna met for the first time at summer camp when they were grouped together in the same cabin. At first, sparks fly as they struggle with their differences, but these unlikely friends not only survive camp, but they end up being best friends. The four girls meet again to celebrate Tiff's birthday in style. But Kat, a sarcastic tomboy; Hanna, a bookworm and computer geek; and painfully shy Amy, clash with Tiff's snobby friends. Chaos at the birthday party threatens to break up their close relationships. As Tiff struggles with the test of true friendship, Amy finds herself forced to face her biggest fear, while Kat and Hanna stir up even more commotion and conflict with their attempts to keep the four together. Will their differences drive these best friends apart? Or will their friendship survive the mishaps and misunderstandings that seem to flare up whenever the four are together?

Author: Frank Oberle
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781894384766
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Franz (Frank) Oberle was nine years old when his family was relocated from Germany to Poland. Once there, he was taken from his parents to an isolated school where adolescents were being indoctrinated into the Hitler Youth. As the tide of war changed, he became a refugee fleeing the Russian advance, arriving in Dresden as the city became the target of the most horrific Allied bombing of the war. Surviving on grass and stolen eggs, Franz and a friend walked 800 kilometres to his ancestral village on the edge of the Black Forest, only to find that his parents had not returned and to face rejection from his remaining family. But the indominable Franz survived amid the disillusioned populace of Germany and, with his youthful sweetheart, dreamed of a new life in a new land. With the blessing of his beloved Hanna (Joan), he set off for Canada, promising to send for her when he was able to provide for her. Their subsequent life together in BC has encompassed tragedy and pure joy, hard work and hard times, failure and triumph, as Frank Oberle rose from self-educated immigrant to acclaimed federal politician. Set against the backdrops of the Second World War and the raw British Columbia frontier, Finding Home covers Frank's fascinating life story up until the time he visited Germany after a decade in Canada. Rich in detail, drama and humour, this is a love story, an inspirational saga and a book that sings the song of the Canadian immigrant.

Author: John Retallack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849433305
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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In Hannah & Hanna having escaped from Kosovo, Hanna, 16 meets Hannah, 16, from Margate. An unlikely friendship develops when they find that music is a common bond between them despite their different cultures and circumstances. Virgins explores issues of sexuality for young people: How do you explore your sexuality when you are still living at home with your parents? How do your parents sustain their love life with you in the house? And why do we find it so difficult to talk about? Risk asks how young people can discover their limits, how can they find out who they are? It asks why young people are drawn to danger; why they risk their freedom, their bodies, their minds and their futures, through dangerous activities and crime. Club Asylum is a devised dance theatre piece about teenage asylum seekers in Glasgow based on research with both young asylum seekers and residents. A thrilling fusion of dance, theatre and music.

Author: Ruth Dykyj
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465300589
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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They say the truth will set you free? What happens though when you are told the truth and it is the only thing keeping you from being free?? Hanna from a young age has spent most of her life searching for truth, happiness and contentment. Coming from a broken family life was never going to be sunlight and rose's. With a discontented mother and a father who gave up everything for her and her two siblings. The cards dealt were far from fair. Having a huge passion for art and love of animals at the age of twenty one Hanna travelled to east Africa and learnt the true value of life. She was happy that she had found what she was searching for. Hanna had dealt with the challenges of her life and knew that you can never choose the cards dealt for you, only how you deal with them. Two years later her father would drop a bombshell that she could never have prepared for leaving her with no idea what to say let alone do. With the biggest decision Run or Stay??

Author: John Retallack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786826429
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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.....A Story of Friendship, Migration and Karaoke.... Summer 1999. Margate's beaches are packed with day-trippers.... and its hotels filled with Kosovan asylum seekers – including Hanna (Celia Meiras), a survivor of Europe's most recent genocide. Hannah (Lisa Payne) is from Margate and bored with life in the rundown seaside town - hanging out with her boyfriend Bull and his prejudiced mates. The only things the two sixteen year olds have in common are their names and their love of singing along to their favourite pop songs.... Sixteen years later, Hanna returns to Margate - this time in search of a Syrian girl she befriended in Kosovo and who may have succeeded in getting across the Channel. The Calais 'Jungle' is close and attempts by its residents to reach England fill the local media. Hanna hopes her young friend will be welcome in Margate, but although the town has changed, alongside the coffee bars and vintage shops, there is still an undercurrent of hostility towards the migrants and refugees who are so desperate to enter the UK. Just as in 1999, when Hanna's arrival turned Hannah's life upside down, so her return takes the friends on a journey which Hannah from Margate would not have thought possible. Hannah and Hanna in Dreamland builds on John Retallack's award winning earlier play, Hannah and Hanna, which has been performed extensively both nationally and internationally.

Author: Sabah Naji
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543494218
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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A story of love and sacrifice. John and Sarah In the suburbs of one of the major cities and behind the forests and valleys and towering mountain ranges hides a small village with a beautiful rural house of picturesque nature. It has a lot of farms to cultivate fruits, grapes, oranges, vegetables, and all that people desire with fresh nature air and beautiful scenery away from the noise of the city and the congestion of the street and air that is polluted all the time by vehicles’ fuel. Betrayal. Ron, the manager of the company and the one, likes Sarah, the daughter of the company director. The story shows how to become the enemy to Sam the director and his daughter after she refused to marry him and then how Ron used a group of unwanted people to carry out dangerous plans against them, and they lost all their possessions. Sarah coping with pressure. The book shows how Sarah managed to cope with the pressures and continue to reveal the truth and to realise them from jail in the end and then she got married to her lover after pressure and great suffering have gone through their lives and declared victory in the end.

Author: Jean M. Wood
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450069444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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After her mother’s death, eighteen-year-old Hanna becomes the owner of a Victorian house that her father built in 1850. To complicate matters, her father’s last will and testament, which took affect upon her mother’s death, states that she must not sell the house until after she married. To fulfill her father’s wishes, Hanna decides to move back to the home she was hurriedly sent away from as a child. Set in San Francisco 1870’s, Hanna’s House is an epic novel of a broken woman who returns in strength to face her past. Over the course of four years, Hanna uncovers the truth behind her father’s death, discovers the secret that will determine her future, and finds herself in a troublesome relationship with someone she does not love while too far away from the one she does. Witness the exciting events unravel as you navigate through the twists and turns in this riveting tale!

Author: Beena Siddiqua
Publisher: Publicancy Ltd
ISBN: 1677201738
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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This story provides readers with a look into the harsh realities of the world. As a child, we believe the world to be a place of sincerity and love. The people we meet, the places we go and the experiences we encounter are all very beautiful. This does not mean the world is sweet, but because we know very little about it. As we grow, our experiences build up and allow our thinking to mature. In this story, a little girl called Hannah was innocently unaware of any bad faces of the world. While she grows up, her thinking starts changing as her experiences make her aware of the blind faces of the world. About the Author: My name is Beena Siddiqua. I am a researcher and teacher by profession. I have done M. Phil. in Biotechnology from the University of Karachi and have worked on genes present in plants of agricultural importance. To date, I also have research published in journals of international repute related to my work related to Molecular Biology. I am also a teacher at Beaconhouse School System Pvt. Ltd; where I have taught various subjects such as Science, History, Geography, Maths, and English to various levels through methods that target skill-development in children. This experience of teaching children has made me feel that our children while living in a safe and protected environment, lack the sense of a hostile and competitive future that awaits them. So this generation should be engaged in reading a wide variety of books that accustom them to the challenges that await them when they reach their adulthood. And there should be effective books available for children of every age group.

Author: Fatimah Jan
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1479776254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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What if you were given a notebook, what would you do with it? What is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it worthless and meaningless? Is it a waste of time? Could you believe that the words you wrote had a significant meaning . . . something that could impact other people’s lives, something that could help others? Would you still do anything with the book? Sophie is a poor child from a large family. Living with the thought of one day being thrown in the streets had always stained their lives. Her father works several jobs only to be paid the minimum wage. Life is hard on the Bennet family. One day, a stranger visits her and gave her an unusual book. An empty book meant to be filled in only by her. Sophie begins her unknown journey that is soon to unfold. With every single word she writes, a new door in her life is opened, which reveals the most astonishing events that must play a part in her life in the near future.