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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
A brother and sister are kidnapped in the night and put into prison...accused of being a witch and a wizard.
4) Homosexuals
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Language
English
Description
Explores the persecution of homosexuals under the Nazi regime. Features a PDF version of the original paper brochure of same title, numerous photographs, and individual case histories.
5) Handicapped
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Language
English
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Explores the history of forced sterilization and "euthanasia" of the physically and mentally handicapped in Nazi Germany. Features a PDF version of the original paper brochure of same title, numerous photographs, and individual case histories.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Circe France, 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father's bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever. For Piet has a dangerous mission of his own, and he will need Minou's help if he is to stay alive."--
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English
Formats
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After God intervenes with a miracle of global proportions, the tide is turned on international atheism and the National Peace Organization (NPO). The underground church has grown to the extent that Christians are becoming the majority. Agent Paul Stepola and his wife Jae are exposed and forced to become international fugitives. The NPO will stop at nothing to capture Paul and eliminate the underground church--until God intervenes and the final judgment...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examines the escalating persecution of Christian groups in the Middle East by ISIS forces, offering testimony of the brutalization and annihilation of Christians along with their refusal to abandon their faith in the face of it all.
Publisher
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses suffered brutal persecution. The reason: they stood firm in their beliefs and boldly spoke out against the cruelty of Nazism. For this, thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses were thrown into Nazi concentration camps. In this video, 10 European and American historians and more than 20 Witness survivors of the period, join in relating their story of courage and triumph...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cleo, scion of a once-prominent Cuban family and a promising young writer in her own right, travels to Spain to collect a prestigious award. There, Cuban expats view her with suspicion--assuming she's an informant for the Castro regime. To Cleo's surprise, that suspicion follows her home to Cuba, where she finds herself under constant surveillance by the government. When she meets and falls in love with a Hollywood filmmaker, she discovers her family...
13) The virgin blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin-two women born centuries apart, yet tied together by a haunting family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start working on a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a strange series of events propels her on a quest to uncover her family's French ancestry....
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Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of World War III, the nations have agreed to outlaw religion in the hopes of promoting world peace, and Paul Stepola, an agent for the National Peace Organization, is determined to expose religious zealots; but when supernatural events being to occur, Paul begins to realize he can no longer deny the truth that a higher being does exist.
16) The hidden flame
Author
Series
Acts of faith volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In first-century Judea, Abigail together with her fellow followers of the Way face a gathering storm of persecution they never could have foreseen but find a glimmer of hope through their faith and courage to survive.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcribed in the kitchens and living rooms of nine survivors. The pain inflicted by the gulags has cast a long and dark shadow over Soviet-era history. Zgustová's collection of interviews with former female prisoners not only chronicles the hardships of the camps, but also serves as testament to the power of beauty in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
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Profiles the struggles of the people and leaders of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia as their nations endure the transition from dictatorship to democracy.
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