The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats.
 
Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend has recently left her and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
 
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As civil war engulfs his West African country, Agu, a school-age child whose father had been killed by militants, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. As the war rages on, he becomes more and more separated from the life he had known before that had been filled with friends, church services, and time with his family. Now, his relationship with his commander deepens and darkens, and his friendship with a fellow soldier lends a deceptive sense...

The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief-a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children's tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire's Oz, is darker, richer,...

"Jacob and his friends are sharing stories about their school break, when suddenly the door of their dorm is violently kicked in. The attack only takes seconds. Blinded by fear and confusion, the boys are abducted by rebel soldiers--members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).Beaten, starved, and forced to become child soldiers, the boys begin a long march through the African bush...With its haunting images and powerful text, this graphic novel tells...

Meet Hickey, an American school teacher in his late thirties, an American school teacher who burns his bridges with the school board and goes to Africa as an aid worker. Working for an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to Southern Sudan to an aid station run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice worker, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient, and Hickey,...

"Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--

Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, his younger brother Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other...