Summary: Documentary about a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a bloody civil war, violent warlords and a corrupt Charles Taylor regime. Includes interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Roco Films Educational 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRA

Dwyer, Johnny.

Summary: Tells the story of "Chucky" Taylor, a young American who lost his soul in Liberia, the country where his African father was a ruthless warlord and dictator.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.8 DWY

Cooper, Helene.

Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 305.896 COO

Cooper, Helene

Summary: "The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIRLEAF, ELLEN JOHNSON COO

Moore, Wayétu

Summary: "When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORE, WAYETU MOO

Banks, Russell

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BAN

Cooper, Helene.

Summary: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.6203 COO

Mitman, Gregg

Summary: "An ambitious and shocking exposeÌp1(B of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.76782 MIT

Contents: Festival music (a) (1:57) -- Festival music (b) (2:06) -- Solo song of a woman (1:57) -- Drum rhythms (3:16) -- Music for a chieftain (4:03) -- Singing at a wrestling-match (3:34) -- Sword-dance of the young girls (2:28) -- Sanza (:42) -- Song to encourage the rice sowers (4:05) -- Singing game of small girls (a) (1:20) -- Singing game of small girls (b) (1:27) -- Rice harvest (1:44) -- Music...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ANT

Summary: A feature documentary that follows the story of Olivia Zinnah, a 7 year old Liberian rape victim who, despite five years of medical treatments and the intervention of the Liberian government, died in 2012 from her injuries. Chronicles the shunning of Olivia and her mother by their family and neighbors for seeking outside help.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SMA

Bjorklund, Ruth.

Summary: A small nation located along West Africa’s Atlantic coast, Liberia was established in the 1820s as a colony for former slaves and other free blacks living in the United States. Readers will discover how this came to be, how the colony became an independent nation, and how it changed over time. They will also explore the country’s beautiful geography, sample some of its diverse native wildlife,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966.8 BJO

Butcher, Tim.

Summary: Tim Butcher follows Graham Greene's footsteps into Liberia where he encounters masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on cannabalism and long forgotten missionaries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 916.662 BUT

Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen

Summary: From Liberian President Sirleaf--Africa's first elected female president--comes an inspirational memoir about her improbable rise to international prominence, her fight for political freedom, and her unwavering determination to rebuild Liberia in the wake of civil war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIRLEAF, ELLEN JOHNSON SIR

Huffman, Alan.

Summary: Isaac Ross died in 1836, and his will stipulated that his Mississippi plantation be sold and the proceeds used to provide passage for his slaves to the new colony of Liberia. This book discusses the battle over the will (which was ultimately upheld), and the results of those slaves' emigration to Liberia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.2 HUF

Moore, Wayétu

Summary: Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of Liberia. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, child of a white British...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOO

Paye, Won-Ldy.

Summary: When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters and that, therefore, the crocodile shouldn't eat her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 PAY

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 398.2 PAY

Alberts, Arthur S.

Contents: Malinke (French Guinea) -- Mano (Liberia) -- Igbo (Nigeria, Ghana) -- Ashanti (Ghana) -- Baule (Ivory Coast) -- Fanti (Ghana, Liberia) -- Loma (Liberia) -- Bindendela (Zaire) -- Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) -- Pop music (Zaire, Liberia)

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rykodisc 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALB

Beer, Daniel

Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BEE

Turk, Jonathan.

Summary: A scientist relates the story of how Moonynaut, an elderly shaman in a remote Siberian village, healed his fractured pelvis after invoking the Spirit Raven, a healing that prompted the author to traverse the frozen tundra where the shaman was born and record the spiritual stories of bands of reindeer herders.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915 Turk

Burke, James Lee

Summary: The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana to solve the mystery.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUR

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Burke 2019

Frazier, Ian.

Summary: Here, travel writer Ian Frazier trains his eye for detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. More than just a historical travelogue, this is also...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 957 FRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 FRA

Summary: Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AVI

London, Jonathan.

Summary: Amba, a Siberian tiger cub, is separated from his mother by a forest fire in the Siberian wilderness.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction London 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LON

Matulli, Allison

Summary: "The First Amendment grants kids and every other citizen five monster privileges: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and the right to petition the government. If the First Amendment is everywhere in their lives, shouldn’t kids know more about it? Yes! In Your Freedom, Your Power, middle grade readers get a focused look at their freedoms and rights...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: RP Kids, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.7308 MAT