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Refugee is a young adult literature novel by Alan Gratz published by Scholastic Corporation in 2019. The book revolves around three main characters from three different eras: early Nazi Germany , 1980s Cuba , and modern-day Syria .
Brian Jones (10 December 1938 – 25 June 2009) was a British poet.He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge.. Jones' first major collection, Poems (consisting of his first book, The Madman in the Reading Room and thirty-seven other poems), was published in 1966, and proved to be successful.
Helen Fielding [2] (born 19 February 1958) [3] is a British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones.Fielding’s first novel was set in a refugee camp in East Africa and she started writing Bridget Jones in an anonymous column in London’s Independent newspaper.
Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...
Isabel (Isa) is living in her family's home in 1961 Netherlands, in the Overijssel province. She lives alone but has assistance from her maid Neelke. The home was acquired by her uncle Karel during World War II and Isabel's family (including her mother, and two brothers; Hendrick and Louis) moved in during the war. Her brothers moved out of the ...
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. [4] It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...
Brian Keith Jones (born January 22, 1968) is an American sports radio and television host and former football linebacker. Jones played one year of college football at UCLA and then transferred to University of Texas at Austin (Texas); Jones was selected by the Los Angeles Raiders in the eighth round of the 1991 NFL draft . [ 1 ]
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852.The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanly, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister.