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Author Deng, Rebecca, author.

Title What they meant for evil : how a lost girl of Sudan found healing, peace, and purpose in the midst of suffering / Rebecca Deng with Ginger Kolbaba.

Publication Info. New York : FaithWords, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  B DENG, REBECCA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B DENG REBECCA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B DENG, REBECCA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  276.2408 DENG    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  276.24 DENG    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Contents A lost girl -- Home -- The joy of innocence -- "They are coming!" -- What no child should see -- "You must go" -- Gone -- The long road -- The sky is falling! -- Left behind -- Stuck -- A new place to settle -- A ray of hope -- The marriage proposal -- At long last -- Safe -- Welcome to America -- A new way of life -- Promise -- Pursuit of a calling -- Though none go with me -- Working toward peace and healing -- No longer lost.
Summary Shares the author's story of how she fled the Sudan in 2000 and came to the United States as an unaccompanied refugee child, including how she survived gunfire, human and animal predators, hunger, and illness.
Subject Deng, Rebecca.
Christian biography -- Sudan.
Christian biography -- United States.
Refugee children -- Sudan -- Biography.
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Personal narratives.
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Children -- Biography.
Sudan -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2005 -- Refugees -- Biography.
RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues.
RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth.
RELIGION / Christian Living / Women's Interests.
Civil War (Sudan : 1983-) (OCoLC)fst01352323
Children. (OCoLC)fst00854835
Christian biography. (OCoLC)fst00858936
Refugee children. (OCoLC)fst01092779
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Sudan. (OCoLC)fst01204591
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Added Author Kolbaba, Ginger, author.
ISBN 9781546013204 (trade pbk.)
1546013202 (trade pbk.)
9781546017226
1546017224
9781546013211 (ebook)
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