global lit

A memoir of Le Ly Hayslip in which she recalls her experiences during the Vietnam War as a young spy for the Viet Cong, and tells of her return to her country and family twenty years after escaping to America.

Recounts the efforts of a covert American Army unit made up of actors, writers, artists, and set designers whose main goal was to deceive and confuse the German Army in World War II.

When her university professor father is sent by the Gestapo to a concentration camp, seven-year-old Anna travels the Polish countryside with the mysterious Swallow Man during World War II.

Twelve-year-old Edith is sent from her home in Germany in 1938 to live with her aunt and uncle in Chicago, Illinois, and escape Nazi persecution, but as she struggles to assimilate into American society, Edith worries about her parents and mourns the loss of everything she has known. Includes information on an American rescue operation that saved twelve hundred Jewish children between 1934 and 1945.

When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear.".

Tara Bahrampour describes her feelings and experiences about her bicultural life, discussing her childhood in Iran, her family's participation in the Islamic revolution, their flight to the United States, and her return to Iran as an adult.

"J.H. "Billy" Williams always had an affinity for animals. So, when he responded to job offer with the East India Company to work with logging elephants his family wasn't surprised, though worried that he had already come back from World War I in one piece, would he be so lucky with India?"--Provided by publisher.

Layla, who was born in India under an unlucky horoscope, has been raised to be educated despite everyone's expectations and has found love in the jungles of Assam on a successful tea plantation.

After the Roman Empire abandons Viroconium in Great Britain, Dinas seeks to become king by gathering support, while his cousin Cadogan is reluctantly appointed the leader of a society in the wilderness.

A fictionalized account of the final months of World War II that recounts the experiences of the Allied soldiers and military leaders who faced the German army and the atrocities they left in their wake.