| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13929 | FRA1 | Taken in Contempt – When Parents Abduct Their Own Children | Robin Bowles, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2001 | This book draws attention to the harrowing and difficult problems associated with international child abduction. | |
| 13930 | FRA2 | In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy | Frédéric Martel, Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019 | An investigative piece of writing exposing the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church. It is based on four years’ of authoritative research, including extensive interviews with those in power. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13931 | ITA1 | I’m Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti, translated by Jonathan Hunt, The Text Publishing Company, 2001 | The book explores the corruption of the adult world through the eyes of a nine-year-old narrator, Michele Amitrano, who chances upon a kidnapped child left to rot in a dilapidated house. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13933 | NETH/GER1 | Childhood | Jona Oberski, translated by Ralph Menheim, Pushkin Press, first published in 1978 | A recreation of the Holocaust through the eyes of a Jewish child as he and his family are deported from the Netherlands and interned at the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany. The writer is eventually placed in foster care at the end of the war. | |
| 13934 | NETH/GER2 | The Children’s House of Belsen | Hetty E Verolme, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000 | During the Holocaust Hetty and her brothers were sent to Children’s House within Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany from the Netherlands. A truly remarkable story of a young girl’s determination. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13935 | POL1 | The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak | Betty Jean Lifton, Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1988 | A biography of Janusz Korczak a Jewish Polish paediatrician and educator who pioneered progressive orphanages serving both Jewish and Catholic children in Warsaw, Poland. | |
| 13936 | POL2 | Frozen In Terror | Iwona Korzeniewski | A recount of life as an orphan and in Polish orphanage under Communist rule. Iwona Korzeniewski's recounts her experience of being placed in a Polish orphanage at the age of four years after her mother passes away. This three page lived experience piece details Iwona's life as an adult living with the damaging effects of her childhood. |
| ID | Code | Title | Author | Description | Home(s) |
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| 13937 | FORMYUG1 | The Rale Rasic Story – The Socceroos’ First World Cup Coach | As told to Ray Gatt, New Holland Publishers, 2006 | The book tells the story of Rale’s life and his childhood that started in an orphanage in former Yugoslavia. |