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The Optician of Lampedusa

2017 Fiction
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Release : 2017
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 151/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Optician of Lampedusa by : Emma Jane Kirby

Download or read book The Optician of Lampedusa written by Emma Jane Kirby. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only optician on the island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean is an ordinary man in his fifties, who used to be indifferent to the fate of the thousands of refugees landing on the coast of the Italian island. One day in the fall of 2013, the unimaginable scale of the tragedy became clear to him, and it changed him forever: as he was out boating with some friends, he encountered hundreds of men, women and children drowning in the aftermath of a shipwreck. The Optician and his seven friends managed to save 47 people (his boat was designed to hold ten people). All the others died. This is a poignant and unforgettable account about the awakening of conscience: more than that, it brings home the reality of an ongoing refugee crisis that has resulted in one of the most massive migrations in human history. More than 360 people died in the disaster off the coast of Lampedusa on October 3, 2013. The original interview with Carmine Menna, the basis for this book, can be heard at http: //bit.ly/optlamp

The Optician of Lampedusa

2016-09-29 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-09-29
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 232/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Optician of Lampedusa by : Emma Jane Kirby

Download or read book The Optician of Lampedusa written by Emma Jane Kirby. This book was released on 2016-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about the awakening of human courage and conscience. 'I can hardly begin to describe to you what I saw as our boat approached the source of that terrible noise. I hardly want to. You won't understand because you weren't there. You can't understand. You see, I thought I'd heard seagulls screeching. Seagulls fighting over a lucky catch. Birds. Just birds.' Emma-Jane Kirby has reported extensively on the reality of mass migration today. In The Optician of Lampedusa she brings to life the moving testimony of an ordinary man whose late summer boat trip off a Sicilian island unexpectedly turns into a tragic rescue mission.

Unaccompanied

2018-05-01 Poetry
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Release : 2018-05-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Unaccompanied by : Javier Zamora

Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

The Shifting Pools

2017-07-24 Fiction
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Release : 2017-07-24
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Shifting Pools by : Zoë Duncan

Download or read book The Shifting Pools written by Zoë Duncan. This book was released on 2017-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.

Reverse Your Diabetes

2014-11-06 Cooking
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Release : 2014-11-06
Genre : Cooking
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Book Rating : 204/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Reverse Your Diabetes by : David Cavan

Download or read book Reverse Your Diabetes written by David Cavan. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverse Your Diabetes provides all the information and support you need to take control of type 2 diabetes and, potentially, to reverse it. Based on the latest research and proven results, this clear and effective programme outlines the key steps you need to take to turn around your health: watch what you eat, get more active, monitor your progress and commit to change. Written by diabetes expert Dr David Cavan and in association with diabetes.co.uk, the UK’s largest online diabetes community, Reverse Your Diabetes also tackles the myths and misinformation about type 2 diabetes. This is an essential book that will empower you to take control of your diabetes and maximise your health for good.

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