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BUY ON AMAZON! LINK BELOW! https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Imani-Firyali-Casee-Ontko/dp/1079141413/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=casee+ontko&qid=1579116631&sr=8-1 As a disabled refugee, Imani knows a thing or two about survival. However, fear rules her life. After escaping the brutal slaughter of her village when she was a child, she entered the country of Amia as an orphan with a mountain of guilt on her shoulders. Years later, after surviving within the desert towns of a foreign continent, Imani finally faces the repercussions of being a thief. She is caught by the police after word gets reported she is causing problems, and they give her only two choices for her behavior. Join the military, or be exiled. Despite being alone, Imani does not wish to die. She chooses the former, and is sent off to join Amia's military as a trainee for an upcoming war that only holds painful memories for her. Yet when she meets a kind mentor who has his own secrets, a sheltered girl who wishes to do good in the upcoming war, and an albino reckless young adult, Imani begins to see that perhaps she is not as foreign from the other people in the country as she once thought. That diversity is not a crutch, but a strength. She faces training as a girl with a missing arm, exam trials, and an ancient power within her that hasn't existed in thousands of years. Yet not everything is as it seems in Amia, as the war brewing is beginning a ripple in a large pond of violence and selfishness. The young female comes to learn that there is way more to herself than she ever imagined, and the country she is fighting for might just be her ticket into changing not only herself, but the world around her. And Imani Firyali will go as far as she limits. Rankings: #2 in REFUGEE #16 in FEMINIST
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