Faye, Gaël

Summary: In Burundi in 1992, ten-year-old Gabriel enjoys carefree days with his friends, but his idyllic existence and his innocence come to a brutal end when Burundi and neighboring Rwanda are hit by civil war and genocide.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAY

Kidder, Tracy.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 KID

Kidder, Tracy.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009

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

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

Summary: Multidisciplinary artists Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman bring their unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision. It is a sci-fi-punk-musical that's a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs that they have been exploring in their work, including on Williams' 2016 album MartyrLoserKing. It takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Uwiringiyimana, Sandra

Summary: The author shares the story of her survival during the Gatumba massacre, despite losing her mother and sister, and how after moving to America she found healing through art and activism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 UWI

Irankunda, Pacifique

Summary: "As a little boy, Pacifique Irankunda lived through the thirteen-year civil war in Burundi, the war that upended his home and family, and destroyed Burundi's beautiful culture and traditions. He hid and watched as military units destroyed his village; he and his brother slept in the woods on nights when they heard shooting and violence. From his own memories and those of his family, he tells...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRANKUNDA, PACIFIQUE IRA
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRA

Potter, Maximillian

Summary: "When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanée Conti-the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world-he soon found a story that was much larger, and more thrilling, than he had originally imagined. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the DRC,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 POT

Scott, Tom

Contents: Target (4:03) -- Come back to me (4:13) -- Aerobia (4:43) -- He's too young (4:15) -- Got to get out of New York (5:15) -- Lillipoppin' (4:09) -- The biggest part of me (4:11) -- Burundi bump (3:58).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1983

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SCO

Summary: After a decade abroad, Jean learns of his father's failing health and returns to run the family vineyard with his strong-willed sister, Juliette, and his responsible younger brother, Jeremie. As four seasons and two harvests go by in picturesque Burgundy, the siblings have to reinvent their relationship and learn to trust each in this tender and finely-textured saga.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018

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