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Title: The Late Homecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
Call number: B/YANG
Notes: Yang recounts the harrowing journey of her family from Laos to a refugee camp in Thailand to the U.S. Eventually settling in St. Paul, Minnesota, their struggle was not over.
Title: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Beah, Ishmael
Call number: B/BEAH
Notes: Moving memoir of a former child soldier who witnessed and committed war atrocities during the Sierra Leonian civil war in the 1990s.
Title: Of Beetles & Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Author: Mawi, Asgedom
Call number: B/MAWI
Notes: The story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to Chicago. Mawi followed his father's advice to "treat people . . . as though they were angels," and realized his dream of a full-tuition scholarship to Harvard University. (Young Adult)
Title: Strength in What Remains
Author: Kidder, Tracy
Call number: B/NIYIZONKIZA
Notes: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kidder now offers the true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from genocidal and civil war-torn Burundi. Deo ekes out a precarious existence, lives in Central Park, and learns English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he meets strangers who will change his life.
Title: A Woman Among the Warlords
Author: Joya, Malalai
Call number: B/JOYA
Notes: In the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Infidel," and also the subject of an award-winning documentary, this impassioned, first-person account tells of a courageous young Afghan woman who risks her life by denouncing the powerful warlords in her country.
Title: God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation
Author: Sebarenzi, Joseph
Call number: B/SEBARENZI
Notes: A harrowing tale of survival and reconciliation by a Hutu who had risen in government to be a member of Parliament before having to face exile once again.
Fiction
Title: The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears
Author: Mengestu, Dinaw
Call number: FIC/MENGESTU
Notes: Award-winning fictional debut thoughtfully portrays the isolation and frustration of immigrant life, telling the story of an Ethiopian immigrant struggling to live the American dream, with a failing convenience store in a gentrifying Washington, D.C., neighborhood.
Title: Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Author: Williams, Mary
Call number: J FIC/WILLIAMS
Notes: Eight-year-old Garang, orphaned by a civil war in Sudan, finds the inner strength to help lead other boys as they trek hundreds of miles seeking safety in Ethiopia, then Kenya, and finally in the United States. (Juvenile)
Title: Diamonds in the Shadow
Author: Cooney, Caroline
Call number: YA FIC/COONEY
Notes: Alternating narratives of American teens in a host family and African refugee teens who can't forget what happened even as they adjust to their new surroundings and try to convince themselves they will eventually find a safe home. (Young Adult)
Title: Krik? Krak!
Author: Danticat, Edwidge
Call number: FIC/DANTICAT
Award-winning collection of stories detailing daily life under dictatorship in Haiti. The stories tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination.
Title: Refugee Boy
Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin
Call number: FIC/ZEPHANIAH
Notes: Alem's father leaves him in England, alone, in the hope that he will find safety as a refugee. Placed with a foster family, it is Alem's courageous and caring character that wins him the friends, the respect, and ultimately, the legal permission to stay in England and start his own, new life. (Young Adult)
Title: Under the Persimmon Tree
Author: Staples, Suzanne
Call number: YA FIC/STAPLES
Notes: During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Young Adult)
Title: What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng
Author: Eggers, Dave
Call number: FIC/EGGERS
Notes: Based closely on true experiences of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who fled their war-ravaged country to come to the U.S. in the mid-1980s, this novel is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Title: The Whispering Cloth: a Refugee’s Story
Author: Shea, Pegi Deitz
Call number: J FIC/SHEA
Notes: A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau. (Juvenile)
Non-Fiction
Title: Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety In America
Author: Kenney, David Ngaruri
Call number: 323.631/KENNEY
Notes: The author and his lawyer tell of Kenney’s near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya; his escape to the U.S., and the ordeals and proceedings he faced as U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya.
Title: A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother
Author: Fifield, Adam
Call number: 959.6042/FIFIELD
Notes: In 1984 a 14-year-old Cambodian refugee arrived at the Vermont home of his foster family, the Fifields. Much to the puzzlement of Adam, then 11, his newly adopted big brother was a taciturn boy who eluded his American family's affections and never discussed the country he came from.
Title: Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees
Author: Ellis, Deborah
Call number: YA 305.23086/ELLIS
Notes: Interviews with 23 Iraqi children who have moved away from their homeland and tells of their fears, challenges, and struggles to rebuild their lives in foreign lands as refugees of war. (Young Adult)
Title: Courageous Journey: Walking the Lost Boys' Path from the Sudan to America
Author: Deng, Ayuel Leek
Call number: 305.896/DENG
Notes: Story of a pair of Sudanese youths whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the crisis in Darfur, control of limited oil reserves, and Islamic terror, in a tale that follows the displacement of thousands of refugee children who face starvation, disease, and violence.
Title: Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid
Author: Lischer, Sarah Kenyon
Call number: 362.878/LISCHER
Notes: The recurring pattern of violent refugee crises around the world prompts the following questions: Under what conditions do refugee crises lead to the spread of civil war across borders? How can refugee relief organizations respond when militants use humanitarian assistance as a tool of war? What government actions can prevent or reduce conflict?
Title: How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Author: Foer, Franklin
Call number: 796.334/FOER
Notes: Wide-ranging tour through the world of soccer, using this sport as an arena to examine world events.
Title: How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Author: Stanišic, Saša
Call number: FIC/STANISIC
Notes: Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he had tried to save and whose fate he is desperate to discover.
Title: However Tall the Mountain: A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home
Author: Ayub, Awista
Call number: 796.334/AYUB
Notes: Moving account of Ayub’s efforts to bring soccer to girls in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
Title: Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
Author: Moorehead, Caroline
Call number: 305.90691/MOOREHEAD
Notes: The author alters our understanding of what it means to have and lose a place in the world, and reveals how the refugee "problem" is on a par with global crises such as terrorism and world hunger.
Title: Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land
Author: Brown, Wesley
Call number: 813.0108/IMAGINING
Notes: Revised edition of the groundbreaking work preserves the unique historical arrangement of stories from 1900 to the present within parts that mirror the newcomer's experience -- Arriving, Belonging, Crossings, and Remembering -- and includes 11 new authors.
Title: Kick the Balls: An Offensive Suburban Odyssey
Author: Black, Alan
Call number: 796.334/BLACK
Notes: Caustically funny memoir of Black’s season coaching his 8-year-old son’s soccer team through a winless season.
Title: Living as a Refugee in America: Mohammed's Story
Author: Howard, Helen
Call number: 973.086/HOWARD
Notes: An Afghan teen remembers little of his early life as he was only six or seven when he left his homeland. Mohammed describes his own and his family’s experiences before coming to America to settle in St. Louis, Missouri. (Young Adult)
Title: The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community
Author: Pipher, Mary Bray
Call number: 305.90691/PIPHER
Notes: In cities all over the country, refugees arrive daily. This is a book that moves beyond the headlines into the homes of refugees from around the world.
Title: The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town
Author: Pipher, Mary Bray
Call number: 305.90691/PIPHER
Notes: Bestselling author Pipher explores the sagas, sorrows, and dreams of America's newest citizens and how their struggles and hopes reaffirm the American dream.
Title: Notes from my Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
Author: Jolie, Angelina
Call Number: 362.87/JOLIE
Notes: From the ever-intriguing actress come the true, personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Pakistan, and Cambodia.
Title: One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children In War
Author: London, Charles
Call number: 305.23086/LONDON
Notes: London, working with the nonprofit organization Refugees International, interviewed child soldiers and other young people affected by ethnic conflict in Africa, Burma and the Balkans to bring their plight to the attention of his fellow Americans.
Title: Refugees
Author: Haerens, Margaret
Call number: 362.87/REFUGEES
Notes: Collects essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to refugees, discussing the seriousness of the problem, who is responsible for aiding refugees, and U.S. and international policies.
Title: Refugees
Author: Aykroyd, Clarissa
Call number: 305.90691/AYKROYD
Notes: A history of refugees to the United States and Canada, particularly during the twentieth century, and an overview of the process refugees undergo when they arrive in North America. (Young Adult)
Title: Remembering Cuba: Legacy of A Diaspora
Author: O’Reilly Herrera, Andrea
Call number: 305.868/REMEMBERING
Notes: Testimonies gathered offer over one hundred perspectives on the Cuban diaspora and on what it means to be Cuban in exile.
Title: Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile
Author: Ahad, Zalmaï
Call number: 779.93059/AHAD
Notes: In 2008, the UN reported that an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, the remaining citizens escaped to neighboring countries. Today, months and years into forced flight, many are running out of money, food and the good will of their hosts.
Title: Soccerhead: An Accidental Journey into the Heart of the American Game
Call number: 796.33407/HANER
Notes: Insightful story of Haner’s experiences coaching his son’s pee-wee soccer team, combined with his research into soccer’s history and rising popularity in the United States.
Title: Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season
Author: Wetherell, W. D.
Call number: 796.334/WETHERELL
Notes: Wetherell’s story of his son’s winning high school soccer season, with ruminations on such topics as the nature of soccer’s appeal, the culture of competitive youth soccer, and a parent’s role in a child’s life.
Title: Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States
Author: Chan, Sucheng
Call number: 305.895/CHAN
Notes: An excellent, comprehensive, elegantly written multidisciplinary survey of recent Cambodian history and the resettlement of Cambodian refugees in the United States.
Title: They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky
Author: Deng, Benson
Call number: 962.4043/DENG
Notes: Two brothers and their cousin were all under the age of seven when they left their homes after terrifying attacks on their villages during the Sudanese civil war. In 2001, they were relocated to the U.S. from a Kenyan refugee camp.
Title: Zeitoun
Author: Eggers, Dave
Call number: 976.33506/Eggers
Notes: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.
Films
Title: Bend it like Beckham
Director: Chadha, Gurinder
Call number: DVD 791.4372/BEND
Notes: A young British Indian girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
Title: Cup Final (Gmar Gavi’a)
Director: Sharfstein, Michael
Call number: DVD HEB 791.4372/CUP
Notes: A captured Israeli soldier, Cohen, shares his passion for the World Cup soccer tournament with one of his captors, PLO leader Ziad.
Title: Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team
Director: Lavine, Joe
Call number: DVD 796.33408/DARE
Notes: Through seventeen years of bus trips, concussions, childbirth and family deaths, the women of the U.S. Soccer Team survived soaring triumphs and devastating losses. Then one day they woke up to find themselves at the center of the world, and at the forefront of a revolution that would change the landscape of sports.
Title: God Grew Tired of Us
Director: Bradford Pace, Molly
Call number: DVD 962.4043/GOD
Notes: Presents the plight of Sudanese refugees being displaced to foreign countries due to civil war in their homeland. Known as "Lost Boys", the film tells the story of three of these "Lost Boy" refugees who struggled to come to the United States for a better life, while still attempting to assist the family and friends they have left behind.
Title: Goal Dreams
Director: Sanbar, Maya
Call number: DVD 796.334/GOAL
Notes: Comprised of multiple cultures, speaking different languages and having no home field, the Palestinian national soccer team and its players must overcome physical, emotional, cultural, and geographical obstacles just to exist. The documentary follows the team as it prepares for a decisive match in its attempt to qualify for the 2006 World Cup.
Title: Gracie
Director: Guggenheim, Davis
Call number: DVD 791.4372/GRACIE
Notes: Gracie takes place in 1978 before Title IX which increased women’s participation in sports took chance to take effect and when organized women's soccer was still very rare in the United States. When her school forbids her to play and even her family questions her ability, Gracie sets out on an extraordinary quest to prove them all wrong.
Title: The Great Match (La gran final)
Director: Olivares, Gerardo
Call number: DVD KAZ 796.334/GREAT
Notes: Three soccer fans, living in the farthest-flung corners of the planet: Mongolia, Niger and Brazil, determined to watch the TV broadcast of the 2002 World Cup final.
Title: In this World
Director: Winterbottom, Michael
Call number: DVD PER 791.4372/IN
Notes: Two Afghan boys travel from Pakistan through Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and the UK in search of refuge in London, revealing the desperate measures people take to escape persecution and life-threatening conditions. In Persian, Pashtu and English with English subTitles.
Title: Lost Boys of Sudan
Director: Mylan, Megan
Call number: DVD 305.89276/LOST
Notes: The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
Title: Offside
Director: Panahi, Jafar
Call number: DVD PER 791.4372/OFFSIDE
Notes: During the 2006 Iran-Bahrain match, the Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and, officially, no women. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate in men's sports. Ambitious young female fans who manage to sneak into the arena are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers.
Title: Rebuilding Hope
Director: Marlowe, Jen
Call number: On Order
Notes: Two Sudanese Lost Boys living in the U.S. now in their twenties embark on a journey back to Sudan to discover whether their homes and families had survived, what the current situation is in South Sudan, and how they can help their community rebuild after devastating civil war.
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