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Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand 1863-1914 Assassination Assassination Balkan Peninsula History Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina History Bosnia and Herzegovina History 1992- Fiction Bosnian Americans Fiction Nationalism Yugoslavia Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina) Fiction Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Bosnia and HercegovinaBolkovac, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BOLSabic-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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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 OGRKing, 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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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...
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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 MADSummary: 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: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.311 BUTVulliamy, Ed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 VULFesperman, Dan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FESArcos, Carrie
Summary: Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARCSummary: 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--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuFilipović, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 FILSabic-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.
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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 SABJones, Lynne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 JONCohen, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 COHTurow, Scott
Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp--unsolved for ten years--he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2017
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC TURFink, Sheri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 FINRieff, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 RIEImamović, Damir
Contents: O, bosanske gore snježne(4:30 min) -- Poljem se vija Hajdar delija(3:38 min) -- Kafu mi draga ispeci(4:51 min) -- Sunce tone(3:52 min) -- Kad bi ovo bio kraj(4:13 min) -- U Stambolu na Bosforu(3:57 min) -- Adio kerida(4:00 min) -- Salko se vija(3:21 min) -- Puhni tihi vjetre(2:53 min) -- Gdje si dragi(3:30 min) -- Čovjeku moje zemlje(4:08 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wrasse Records 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN IMAO'Keefe, Emily
Contents: Fast facts -- A visit to Bosnia -- The Archduke and the Emporer -- The Black Hand -- The assassination -- The First World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 OKEArmstrong, Jesse
Summary: A young man, Andrew, follows his romantic interest, a wealthy young socialite named Penny, across Bosnia in a van, performing an unfinished peace play that they hope will stop the bombings in Sarajevo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARMTurow, Scott
Summary: Bill ten Boom has walked out on everything he thought was important to him: his career, his wife, Kindle County, even his country. Still, when he is tapped to examine the disappearance of an entire Kosovo refugee camp, unsolved for ten years, he feels drawn to what will become the most elusive case of his career. In order to uncover what happened during the apocalyptic chaos after the Bosnian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC TURHemon, 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