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A Cave in the Clouds
Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Yazidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah’s story takes her to Syria where she is sold to a high-ranking ISIS commander known as Al Amriki, the American, kept as a house slave, raped, and routinely assaulted. Only the presence of her young nephew Eivan and her friend Navine, also prisoners, keeps her from harming herself. In ...
The Thundermaker
A young Mi'kmaw boy, Little Thunder, learns the importance of responsibility as his father teaches him, and then passes on, the role of Thundermaker.
Boy from Buchenwald
It was 1945 and Romek Wajsman had just been liberated from Buchenwald, a brutal concentration camp where more than 60,000 people were killed. He was starving, tortured, and had no idea where his family was-let alone if they were alive. Along with 472 other boys, including Elie Wiesel, these teens were dubbed “The Buchenwald Boys.” They were angry at the world for their abuse, and turned to violence: stealing, fighting, and struggling for power. Everything changed for Romek and the other boys when Albert Einstein and Rabbi Herschel Schacter brought them to a home for rehabilitation Romek Wajsman, now Robbie Waisman, humanitarian and Canadian governor general award recipient, shares his remarkable story of transforming pain into resiliency and overcoming incredible loss to find incredible joy.
Religious Minorities in Iraq
Based on interviews and archival research, this book reveals the connections and dialogue between the religious minorities living in post-ISIS Iraq
The Girl Who Escaped ISIS
"A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with her parents and three brothers in her village in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In one horrific day, she lost everything: ISIS invaded her village, destroyed her family, and sold her into sexual slavery. The Girl Who Escaped ISIS is her incredible account of captivity and describes how she defied the odds and escaped a life of torture, in order to share her story with the world. Devastating and inspiring, this is an astonishing, intimate account of courage and hope in the face of appalling violence"--
The Role of Women in the Gulf War
Though women had been involved in war efforts in every conflict in American history, more women participated in the Gulf War than in any war before it. When the Gulf War began in 1990, women in the military were still not allowed to fight on the front lines, in positions that directly engaged the enemy, but the roles they held still proved challenging and dangerous. This engrossing book tells the stories of the women who fought bravely in the air, on land, at sea, and in enemy camps as prisoners of war, as well as honors those who gave their lives for their country.
Every Falling Star
Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.
Between Two Worlds
From Tyler Henry, a twenty-year-old clairvoyant and star of E!’s hit reality series Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, comes Between Two Worlds, a memoir about his journey as a medium thus far. “Dying doesn’t mean having to say goodbye.” Tyler Henry discovered his gift for communicating with the departed when he was just ten years old. After experiencing a sudden, accurate premonition of his grandmother’s death—what Tyler would later describe as his first experience of “knowingness”—life would never be the same. Now in his twenties, Tyler is a renowned, practicing medium, star of the smash hit E! reality show, Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry, and go-to clairvoyant of cele...
Eine Höhle in den Wolken
Der Weg einer jungen Frau aus der Gefangenschaft des IS Badeeah Ahmed Hassan ist gerade einmal 18, als IS-Kämpfer ihr Dorf im Irak überfallen. Mit Hunderten anderer jesidischer Frauen und Mädchen wird sie verschleppt und nach Syrien verkauft. Dort landet sie als Haussklavin bei einem hochrangigen IS-Kämpfer in Aleppo. Sie wird regelmäßig misshandelt. In Monaten der Gefangenschaft sind es die Erinnerungen und Geschichten aus ihrer Kindheit, die ihr Halt geben. Daraus schöpft sie die Kraft, zu fliehen und ihre Familie wiederzufinden. Die junge Autorin erzählt ihre Geschichte, um ihrem Volk eine Stimme zu verleihen, auf den Genozid der Jesiden aufmerksam zu machen und unterdrückten Frauen und Menschen auf der ganzen Welt Mut zu machen.
Das Geheimnis meines Turbans
Als Junge verkleidet unter den Taliban Unter dem dunklen Turban leitet ein Junge mit vom Bombenangriff vernarbten Gesicht das Morgengebet in der Moschee an. Jeder respektiert ihn und hört zu, obwohl seine Stimme schwach ist und sein Körper klein und zierlich. Er ist ein guter Moslem, aber was seine Freunde und Nachbarn nicht wissen: Unter dem Turban steckt gar kein Junge, sondern ein Mädchen, das bei jedem Kontakt mit den Taliban innerlich zittert vor Angst, ihr Geheimnis könnte entdeckt werden. Das Buch erzählt die wahre Geschichte von Nadia Ghulam, einem Mädchen, das im Afghanistankrieg schwer verletzt wurde und sich schließlich unter den Taliban zehn Jahre lang als Junge ausgab, um arbeiten und die Familie ernähren zu können. Ein beeindruckendes Plädoyer gegen die Unterdrückung von Frauen und Mädchen
