Summary: Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blood 2007Land, Jon.
Summary: Detective Ben Kamal and sleuth Danielle Barnea join forces when they find themselves caught up in the violence and terrorism of the diamond-rich West African country of Sierra Leone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beah 2014Forna, Aminatta.
Summary: Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds unexpected friendship in a young surgeon at the hospital, the charismatic Kai Mansaray, and begins to build...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORHill, Lawrence
Summary: Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. When...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILBeah, Ishmael
Summary: "A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAHill, Lawrence
Summary: Dreaming of escaping her life of slavery in South Carolina and returning to her African home, slave Aminata Diallo is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, during which she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILEllis, Aunjanue
Summary: Dreaming of escaping and returning to her African home, slave Aminata is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, when she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOOWaid, Mark
Summary: "In the past two years, the little town of Riverdale has changed in a number of amazing ways. The entire Archie universe has been given a fresh coat of paint and it's only getting bigger and better from here. Road to Riverdale presents to readers all of the first issues of each of our new series so far, including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats, and Reggie & Me,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comic Publications 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ROAOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: "The magic tree house has whisked Jack and Annie to the Himalayas in Nepal. Morgan has asked them to search for the mysterious Gray Ghost. Jack does not want to find a ghost. But he and Annie are excited about all the amazing animals they see. So excited, in fact, that Annie and Jack get lost in the mountains! Can they make their way to safety before the Gray Ghost finds them?"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PARWenzel, Brendan
Summary: Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world. To some animals it's a pebble, To others it's a hill, and to others, a home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHROsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: The magic tree house is back with a message from Morgan le Fay telling Jack and Annie to seek out "The Gray Ghost" and listen to her story, and immediately they are whisked away to Nepal where they meet Tenzin, a climber who has recently lost his family, and who takes them up the mountain to meet a snow leopard and renew himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE OSBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MTH 36Hartman, Aubrey
Summary: Twelve-year-old Poppy meets a water nymph and exchanges her favorite book for a lion, but her deal has unexpected consequences that Poppy must fight to correct.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HARArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows the musical adventures of preschool friends, the Backyardigans, as they become protectors of an egg that leads them through the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACLerangis, Peter
Summary: After his friend falls seriously ill, Max and his cousin Alex use clues found in their great-great-great-grandfather Jules Vernes unpublished manuscript to find a magical cure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LERRiazi, Karuna
Summary: Growing up in Pakistan, Maria Latif has been bounced between reluctant relatives for as long as she can remember--first because of her parents' constant travel, and then because of their deaths. Maria has always been a difficult child, and it never takes long for her guardians to tire of her. So when old friends of her parents offer to "give her a better life" in the United States, Maria is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RIACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RIABromfield, Asha
Summary: It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different backgrounds: Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROPaver, Michelle
Summary: Danger, magic and non-stop adventure await Torak, Renn and Wolf. The Clans will be tested as never before, as they battle to find ways to survive and thrive in their beloved Forest. In the Dark Time of midwinter, disaster strikes the Forest. Chaos rules. Bears woken from their dens prowl the shadowy valleys. Desperate clans battle for survival. Only demons thrive. With their world in turmoil,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyr 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAVLewis, C. S. (Clive Staples)
Summary: When evil comes to Narnia, Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle and Aslan leads his people to a glorious new paradise.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC LEWMafi, Tahereh
Summary: A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Bergman, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERKhor, Shing Yin
Summary: "Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2021