Showing results for "Refugee" in Literary Fiction

Will the danger that stalks them destroy their life together before it begins? When Rachel dared Beth to answer a personal ad in The Ranchers Journal, she never thought her citified friend would become a bona fide rancher's wife. Now Rachel, too, is falling in love with the glorious valley and Dirk Tanner, a rugged rancher who makes it his home.

Nothing in Abigail MacLeod's life as a wife, a mother, and a teacher has prepared her for what she will experience during her summer in Israel. At 42, her life is in chaos, even before she leaves home - her marriage is dissolving before her very eyes, and her faith is in shambles. This pilgrimage to Israel was supposed to be a new beginning for her. But by the end of the first day, she is forced to board an Israeli jetliner in spite of a bomb threat and watches helplessly as a kind, fatherly gentleman she befriended on the plane dies in her arms.  

Installée en Normandie depuis peu, Sandrine est priée d'aller vider la maison de sa grand-mère, une originale qui vivait seule sur une île minuscule, pas très loin de la côte. Lorsqu'elle débarque sur cette île grise et froide, Sandrine découvre une poignée d'habitants âgés organisés en quasi autarcie. Tous décrivent sa grand-mère comme une personne charmante, loin de l’image que Sandrine en a. Pourtant, l'atmosphère est étrange ici.

The river isn't the only thing overflowing in Hunsford when a natural disaster forces Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to work together. The residents of flood-stricken Hunsford, seeking refuge in the parsonage atop the hill, are unaware they are interrupting Darcy's disastrous proposal. Even worse, the flood has washed out the only bride to Rosings Park, stranding Darcy with the woman who has just refused his offer of marriage. But it may already be too late to redeem Elizabeth's reputation.

“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee...

You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself… When John Callum arrives on the wild and desolate Faroe Islands, he vows to sever all ties with his previous life. He desperately wants to make a new start, and is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit...

After a life that rubbed up against the century’s great events in New York City, Mexico, and Montreal, 96-year-old Cassandra MacCallum is surviving well enough, alone on her island, when a young Burmese woman contacts her, claiming to be kin. Curiosity, loneliness, and a slender filament of hope prompt the old woman to accept a visit. But Nang’s story of torture and flight provokes memories in Cass that peel back, layer by layer, the events that brought her to this moment - and forces her, against her will, to confront the tragedy she has refused for half a century.

Beautiful, sweet Shay and dark, dangerous Tanner don′t have a lot in common. He′s a suspicious big city cop come home to his family′s ranch and she′s a bleeding heart who works for a group that seeks out ranches to conserve after the owners have passed away. But the suspicious death of...

Tout est allé très vite : d'abord des gestes d'intimidation, puis des menaces directes. Un soir, Sacha et Mina décident de fuir la France avec leur petite fille Irène. Ils laissent derrière eux un pays qui a plongé dans le nationalisme, l'ignorance et l'intolérance, dirigé par un nouveau président qui a lancé des hommes après eux. Quel secret explosif veut-il protéger ?

Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked—over time and distance—by the perils of history and a single haunting piece of music in this “breathtaking and simultaneously heartbreaking” (The Montecito Journal) literary historical novel. Born in Beirut in 1922, Marguerite...

Erin Miller was alone in the world after her Uncle Ernie died, but he left her a hunting lodge full of secrets in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. She packed up her belongings and left Tulsa, determined to make the lodge into a home. Just as she was settling in and making friends in the nearby town of Kanichi Springs, events on the other side of the world and across America caused drastic changes in her life and the lives of all Americans.

She traded in her prison uniform for shackles of a different kind. After escaping a North Korean prison camp, Mee-Kyong is hustled over the border and sold into the Chinese underworld. She vows to survive, but sheer determination and willpower won't save her this time. Is she fated to remain a slave forever?

After graduating from the Secret Seminary, Hannah and Simon are ready to return to their homeland. Their training has equipped them to carry the gospel to a country ravaged by darkness and despair. If necessary, they're even prepared to face the North Korean labor camps, but the hardest part of their mission isn't the hunger, cold, and incessant danger. The hardest part is cutting off contact with one another.

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