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Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 12
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood, a group of female vigilantes who bring criminals who have fallen through the cracks to justice, await their presidential pardon and take on a new mission in Las Vegas, where a childhood friend of Myra and Annie has encountered a web of corruption.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Santiago, a political prisoner in Uruguay, was jailed after a brutal military coup that saw many of his comrades flee elsewhere. Santiago, feeling trapped, can do nothing but write letters to his family, and try to stay sane. Far away, his nine-year-olddaughter Beatrice wonders at the marvels of 1970s Buenos Aires, but her grandpa and mother--Santiago's beautiful, careworn wife, Graciela--struggle to adjust to a life in exile"--
3) The postcard
Author
Language
English
Description
"Anne Berest's The Postcard is among the most acclaimed and beloved French novels of recent years. Luminous and gripping to the very last page, it is an enthralling investigation into family secrets, a poignant tale of mothers and daughters, and a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life. January, 2003. Together with the usual holiday cards, an anonymous postcard is delivered to the Berest family home. On the front,...
Author
Series
Chiveis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Exiled from Chiveis, Teo and Ana journey into foreign lands in search of the second half of Deu's sacred writings. Though the New Testament might be found in distant Roma, will the price of its discovery be too high to pay?
6) Burn Country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An exiled Afghan journalist moves to Northern California. When he tries to rise above his menial job on a police blotter by covering a local crime, he's drawn into a world of violence.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Set in the near future where climate change has wreaked havoc in parts of the American Midwest, a government agency exiles members of society deemed unproductive to a colony known as New Eden. An ambitious and impartial caseworker, Noah Kross investigates a case appealed by a single mother and her son. Determined to expose government secrets, Kross sets off to save the lives of the mother and child.
8) Shadowrise
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland. But both families and nations can hide dark and terrible secrets, and even if Barrick and Briony survive learning the astonishing truths at the heart of their own family and of Southmarch itself, they must still find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home--from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry...
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In January 1937, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England, but remain determined to free their island home from the Germans, despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.
10) Shark wars
Author
Series
Shark wars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the ocean on the brink of chaos, a young shark Gray and his best friend Barkley, exiled from the safety of their peaceful reef home, will have to battle ferocious shivers, or join them, to survive.
11) Archon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Taemon struggles with the fallout from his role in ending the city of Deliverance's ability to use telekinetic powers and embarks on a dangerous journey with Amma to find his missing father in a Republik.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escaping the Nazis, Sophie and the rest of the FitzOsborne royal family have fled their island home and now live in London as they deal with blackouts and the Blitz, hoping that the drive of the Allies across Europe will liberate their beloved island.
15) Freakling
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psy, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Random House published the first English translation of H.G. Adler's The Journey in 2008, literary critics and historians alike came to recognize Adler as a neglected modern master, comparing him to Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. Told in a powerful stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our finest modernist writers, The Wall is the story of Arthur Landau, a Holocaust survivor struggling to leave behind the horrors of the past...
18) Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set upgovernments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
19) Romanov
Author
Language
English
Description
Anastasia "Nastya" Romanov must choose between using the ancient spell her father, the exiled tsar, trusted her to keep safe, or trusting Zash, a handsome Bolshevik soldier.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world. In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution Vladimir Lenin was far away, exiled in Zurich. When the news reached him, Lenin immediately resolved to return to Petrograd and lead...
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