Summary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: A story of a sixteen-year-old boy becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960s. Dino grows up with his good but ailing father and is attracted by the world of small-time crime. Then Dolly Bell, a lovely cabaret girl, turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment Company 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: "A middle-grade nonfiction story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBFilipović, Zlata.
Summary: Growing up in Sarajevo, the only child of her parents, Zlata's life was like that of any ordinary girl her age. Soon war broke out on the streets and her world changed from that of an ordinary girl to one trapped in a war torn land. Includes color photographs reproduced from her diary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 FILMaden, Mike
Summary: Twenty years ago, Dr. Cathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl who had been injured during an attack in the Balkan War. Today, her son, Jack Ryan Jr. has decided to surprise his mother by tracking down the young lady. What he finds shocks them both. The helpless child has grown into a remarkable woman. Aida Curic is a self-possessed beauty who runs a refugee agency that helps...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MADFesperman, Dan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FESKubert, Joe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics, Inc. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 KUBSummary: Vacationing journalists try to track down a missing war criminal in one of Eastern Europe's deadliest regions. What begins as an impulsive reporting adventure immediately turns dangerous, as hostile locals, shady underworld figures and a case of mistaken identity put them squarely in their target's crosshairs. Amid the bullets and bombs, they discover that getting the scoop is one thing--...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuHo, Joanna
Summary: "Her son will be courageous and kind, powerful and curious, and blaze his own trail. He will know that it is okay to cry, or be scared, or uncertain. Above all, he will know that he is more than enough exactly as he is. An extraordinary gift for Mother's Day and loved ones everywhere" --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOFesperman, Dan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FESHemon, Aleksandar
Contents: Islands -- The life and work of Alphonse Kauders -- The Sorge spy ring -- The accordion -- Exchange of pleasant words -- A coin -- Blind Josef Pronek & dead souls -- Imitation of life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEMKing, David C.
Summary: "The story of Bosnia and Herzegovina is full of conflict and challenges, but it's also full of rich traditions and people who are proud of their heritage. This complex story is told in a comprehensive way, through detailed main text filled with the most up-to-date information, helpful maps, informative sidebars, and full-color photographs of this country and its people. As readers discover the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 949.742 KINSummary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSSummary: The Wolves are no ordinary motorcycle club as revealed in this gorgeous, surprisingly intimate documentary of trauma and survival. Still struggling after the Bosnian War, the Wolves organize a charity for their town and defend the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front line. Out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMOButcher, Tim
Summary: "On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip, started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUTSummary: During World War II, 70,000 Finnish children were shipped off to Swedish families who had agreed to shelter them for their own protection until the end of the war. This is the story of one such boy, Eero. After the death her husband, grief stricken Kirsti agrees with great reluctance to send Eero to Sweden. His surrogate parents, Signe and Hjalmar, are grieving the recent loss of a daughter....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Matila Röhr Productions 2007
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MOTBolkovac, Kathryn.
Summary: "When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac was shipped out to Bosnia, where DynCorp had been contracted to support the UN peacekeeping...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BOLGalloway, Steven
Summary: "A spare and haunting, wise and intelligent novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo is a testament to the endurance of the spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity in a city ravaged by war." "In a city under siege, four people whose lives have been upended are ultimately reminded of what it is to be human. From his window, a musician sees twenty-two of his friends and neighbors...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Audiobooks 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GALGalloway, Steven
Summary: While a cellist plays at the site of a mortar attack to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two friends and neighbors, two other men set out in search of bread and water to keep themselves alive, and a woman sniper secretly protects the life of the cellist as her army becomes increasingly threatening.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALO'Grady, Scott.
Summary: True story of how O'Grady managed to live through a missile impact at 27,000 feet, the techniques he used to survive in a barren and hostile landscape, and the real story behind the daring daylight resuce mission carried out by the U.S. Marines.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 OGRSabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SABFullerton, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1996