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1) Wolf season
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed. Rin, an Iraq War veteran, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her wounded son, faces life-threatening injuries. Beth, who is raising a troubled son, waits out her marine husband's deployment in Afghanistan, equally afraid of him coming...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
3) Consequences
Author
Language
English
Description
Consequences is a love-story-times-three that opens on the eve of the Second World War, with a chance meeting in St. James's Park, London. Wholly in love, Lorna and Matt leave the city for a cottage in a rural Somerset village. Their intimate life together is shattered when the war begins and by Matt's tragic death in action.Twenty years later, their daughter, Molly, happens upon a forgotten newspaper-a seemingly small moment that leads to her first...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him. Assured a position as a cartographer in London, he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle. Meanwhile, at home, his son Simon Peter must navigate escalating hostility in a fishing village torn by grief"--Amazon.com.
6) Incendies
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
After the death of their mother, a set of twins make a life-altering discovery. The pair travels to the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about the father they thought was dead who is still very much alive, and the brother they never knew existed. Along the way they will piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Ukrainian
Description
In this Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary, a group of strong-willed social workers at a war-worn orphanage in Eastern Ukraine work tirelessly to create a magical haven for children to live in while the state decides their futures.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later to the U.S., where she is separated from her mother."--
9) Two women
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Seeking escape from city bombing, an Italian mother and daughter travel war-torn Italy during World War II trying to survive near-starvation, rape by wandering soldiers and other horrors of war.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press USA, an imprint of Gecko Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When fighting breaks out in the south, Toda's father is sent there to defend his country, and when living in the city with her grandmother is no longer safe, she is sent across the border to be with her mother.
"Toda's father has gone away to fight in the war. Luckily, he's read about camouflage and will be able to hide from the enemy by disguising himself as a bush. Toda is sent to stay with her mother where it'll be safer. Her journey across the...
11) Four sons
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
This film tells the tale of the Bavarian Bernle family and how their lives are affected by the outbreak of World War I. Mother Bernle is heartbroken when her sons are called to the front-- and on opposite sides. As two choose to fight for the Allies, while the other two fight for the Germans, the family is visited by the inevitable cruel irony of war: not only are the brothers likely to discover one another on the battlefield, they may also find a...
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