survival
| author: Dave Eggers | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2000 | publisher: Picador | | content type: book | | description: In Lake Forest, Illinois, Dave Eggers and his siblings, Bill, Beth and Toph (who is 13 years younger than his next-eldest sibling, Dave) endure the sudden death of their father due to lung cancer. Their mother dies a month later from stomach cancer after a long struggle.
Afterwards, Dave, Beth and Toph move to California. Bill, who does not play a large role in the plot, eventually moves to Los Angeles. The rest of the family live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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| author: Dave Eggers | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 2007 | publisher: Vintage Canada | | content type: book | | description: As a boy, Achak is separated from his family during the Second Sudanese Civil War when the Arab militia, referred to as murahaleen (which is Arabic for traveller), wipes out his Dinka village, Marial Bai. He flees on foot with a group of other young boys, (the "Lost Boys"), encountering great danger and terrible hardship along the way to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Their inflated expectations are shattered by the conditions at the camp, and eventually they are forced to flee to another refugee camp in Kakuma, after the Ethiopian president is overthrown and soldiers open fire on them.
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| author: Claude Delarue; translated from the French by Vivienne Menkes-Ivry | shelved under: Fiction | | date: 1992 | publisher: London : Minerva | | content type: book | | description: European novel of the Year, part suspense novel, part metaphisical thriller, the book sets questions of ultimate character survival within a commanding story of character and passion.
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| author: Jack Davis | shelved under: Theatre, Plays | | date: 1989 | publisher: Currency Press | | content type: book | | keywords: |
| author: edited by the Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective | shelved under: Queer/Gender-queer/LGBTI | | date: 1990 | publisher: Toronto : Women's Press | | content type: book | |
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| author: Maliyah Cole (ed.) | shelved under: Women's Health | | date: 2006 | publisher: Health Initiatives For Youth | | content type: book | | description: softcover, a4, purple with picture of young black woman on it
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| author: various; anonymous | shelved under: Prisoner's rights/Prisons | | date: 1997 | publisher: American Friends Service Committee | | content type: book | | keywords: |
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