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Contents: Near-extinct birds of the central Cordillera -- Rêve haitien -- The good ones are already taken -- Asian tiger -- Bouki and the cocaine --The lion's mouth -- Brief encounters with Che Guevara -- Fantasy for eleven fingers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUFountain, Ben
Summary: "Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'état, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUFountain, Ben
Summary: "Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 FOUFountain, Ben.
Summary: Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' halftime show on Thanksgiving, Specialist Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOUFountain, Ben.
Summary: A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FOUSummary: Nineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad, contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017