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281) Margot
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A reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin. Working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, she finds her life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
282) Casablanca
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In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
284) Dheepan
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A Sri Lankan Tamil warrior flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker of a housing block outside Paris in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
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"London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn't feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it's time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside. But fate has other plans for Gertie. In Germany, Hitler is on the rise, and Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from...
287) For the Love of Vietnam: A War, a Family, a CIA Official, and the Best Evacuation Story Never Heard
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John Eliot (1604-1690), a Puritan missionary to the American Indians known as "the apostle to the Indians" noticed that the Indians he observed shared many similarities to Jews. Reverend Thomas Thorowgood (1595-1669) was a friend of John Eliot's, and an efficient promoter of missionary work among the Indians. Based on his correspondence with Eliot discussing the similarities of Indians to Israelites, Thorowgood published in 1660 "Jews in America,...
289) Drift
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"Whether writing about the physical world or about human connections, Lindemann sees the extraordinary in the commonplace and the spiritual in the everyday. Drift is a satisfying, heart-warming collection to return to again and again."
-Milton Teichman, author of A Teacher of the Holocaust and Other Stories and co-editor of Truth and Lamentation: Stories and Poems on the Holocaust
"Drift, as a collection of 'recipes and questions for God,' is a surviving...
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In his 1825 book "View of the Hebrews," Rev. Ethan Smith suggests that Native Americans are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. These tribes were said to have disappeared after being taken captive by the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE.
Smith's speculation was inspired by the apocryphal 2 Esdras 13:41, which says that the Ten Tribes traveled to a far country, "where never mankind dwelt"-which Smith interpreted to mean North America. Smith...
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"Dr. J.H. Allen of Portland...a strong and interesting speaker and many of his ideas and the results of his researches are original and unique...ancestry of Queen Victoria has been traced all the way back to Adam." -Spokane Chronicle, Nov. 8, 1902
"J.H. Allen, evangelist, is evidently a man who believes that the Bible says is the word of God...the author dispels the prevailing notion that all prophecy is fulfilled...the children of Abraham are to...
293) Tears of the sun
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When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well. Together, they begin a dangerous trek through the deadly jungle, all the while being pursued by a rebel militia group.
294) Wings in the wild
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
296) Flight and rescue
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"According to U.S. military planners, climate change now poses the #1 national security threat to the United States, even before terrorism. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reports that a person is four times more likely to be forced to move due to environmental disaster than by war, and in 2015 alone, 19.2 million people were displaced worldwide by environmental disasters. Droughts, fires, and floods are driving ever-larger numbers of...
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Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city turned Yugoslavian under Tito's communist regime. She enjoys a childhood surrounded by love and security--despite the family's poverty--learning everything about Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother, Nonna Rosa. When the communist regime begins investigating the family, they flee to Trieste, Italy, where they spend two years in a refugee camp waiting for visas to enter...
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