Anderson, Natalie C.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ANDHood, Joshua
Summary: Retired airman Travis Lane joins a company that provides protection for clients worldwide. But it's trial by fire when his first mission takes him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to find and retrieve a kidnapped American in the middle of a densely forested jungle.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HOOKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperFlamingo 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINSummary: A mercenary unit rolling on a steam train across the Congo, headed for the dual tasks of rescuing civilians imperiled by rebels and recovering a cache of diamonds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DARSummary: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARCassiau-Haurie, Christophe
Summary: "Madame Livingstone is a historical fiction story of adventure and friendship against the backdrop of World War I. Based on the true story of two vastly different men -- one Belgian, one African -- who take on one impossible mission: sinking of a German battleship in the Congo. Aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives at Lake Tanganyika, Congo in 1915 on orders to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catalyst Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CASGriffin, W. E. B.
Summary: A detachment of Special Forces hotshots teams up with presidential counselor Sandy Felter to put a stop to Che Guevara's attempts to "liberate" the Congo from President Joseph Mobutu's anticommunist government. Under Felter's direction, the Green Berets dispatch a special detachment to the Congo. Their mission is to convince Mobutu of the wisdom of the American plan to discredit and humiliate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRIGriffin, W. E. B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GriffShawl, Nisi
Summary: An "alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's ... colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHARollins, James
Summary: "It begins in Africa... A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them--plants and animals--has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROLShawl, Nisi
Summary: Traveling the world via aircanoe, siblings Tink and Bee-Lung spread spores of a mysterious empathy-generating fungus to build bonds between people, while Everfair's Princess Mwadi and Prince Ilunga are unwittingly manipulated by their mother who pits Europe's influenza-weakened political powers against each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAGriffin, W. E. B
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Publishing Group 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRINguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LEGArnold, David
Summary: Teens Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco sit in separate police interrogation rooms telling about the misfits who brought them together and their journey sparked by a message in an urn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Childrens Books 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC ARNSummary: Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NUNYogis, Jaimal
Summary: "When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2021
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction YogisAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACESummary: Conan the barbarian: Cimmerian Conan is captured as a child after his parents are murdered by raiding Vanir led by Thulsa Doom. After years of enslavement, Conan is freed to learn the "riddle of steel" and to kill the arch-villain Thulsa Doom
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CONAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALVCall number: YA 468 SPANISH
Gonzales, Laurence
Summary: Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GONVerde, Susan
Summary: With its wide sky and warm earth, Princess Gie Gie's kingdom is a beautiful land. But clean drinking water is scarce in her small African village. And try as she might, Gie Gie cannot bring the water closer; she cannot make it run clearer. Every morning, she rises before the sun to make the long journey to the well. Instead of a crown, she wears a heavy pot on her head to collect the water....
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Matula, Christina
Summary: Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MATHamilton, Laurell K.
Summary: When vampire hunter Anita Blake confronts The Harlequin, terrifying, powerful creatures feared even by the centuries-old vampires, rivals Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, the alpha werewolf, must become allies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2007