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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really good book. It had some language in it, but very moving. Gives you an idea of what it would be like to be a refugee. Makes you think about what you would do if you had no country, no family, no posessions and no where to go. You also realize you can be a refugee from yourself. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a good book, but i didn't enjoy it....if that makes any sense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a pretty okay book with a really interesting plot. Reader beware though about 2/3 of the way through the &quot;f&quot; word is used and really it feels like the author just wanted to use it and it didn't really belong. (In my opinion it never belongs.) It also has a pretty unsatisfactory en...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A young American women travels to Hungary to teach Kosovo refugees English in a camp run by a ruthless man.  The author weaves a heartbreaking story around a young boy who got separated from his mother and she falls in love with a young Serb.  She describes the city of Dubrovnik under siege.   ]]></body>
    
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