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The Endless Steppe

With Connections
2002
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

Cuban Americans

exiles from an island home
2006
Examines the Cuban American community, and describes the struggles many have encountered living in a strange land as well as their contribution to America's culture.

The victims return

survivors of the Gulag after Stalin
2010
An examination of the experiences of the survivors of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that draws on interviews with victims to describe the challenges they faced after returning home and the political conflict that was caused by their imprisonment.

To Terra

2007
After leading the Mu race into hiding, Jomy Marcus Shin struggles to find a way to bring the alien race back to their home planet Terra.

The FitzOsbornes in exile

The Montmaray Journals Book II
2011
In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.

Freakling

2012
After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psy, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.

The FitzOsbornes in exile

2011
As Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile as the year 1937 begins, but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London's parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans, despite the growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.

The man without a country

2002
Contains Edward Hale's "The Man Without a Country," in which an army officer, Aaron Burr, disowns his country; and "A Message to Garcia," by Elbert Hubbard, in which a Cuban war hero delivers President McKinley's letter to Garc?a, along with two additional essays by Hubbard.

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