Truhe, Marv
Summary: "The US Navy charged Black sailors with rioting and assaults on White sailors in an incident referred to as a race riot, while totally ignoring violent unprovoked assaults committed by White sailors and Marines. Author Marv Truhe was a Navy JAG defense lawyer seeking justice for the accused Black sailors. Truhe possesses one of the most complete collections, personal or institutional, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lawrence Hill Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 TRUNguyen, Viet Thanh
Summary: It is April 1975 and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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Summary: Chronicles the life of Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese journalist who worked in South Vietnam for Reuters and Time magazine during the Vietnam War while simultaneously spying for North Vietnam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books/Collins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 PHAM, XUAN AN BERSummary: American soldiers try to hold off Japan's invasion of the Philippines; after surrendering to Japan, an American army colonel organizes a Filipino guerrilla force; follows an elite group of soliders trained for anti-guerilla warfare in Vietnam; the crew of an American submarine head to Tokyo Bay to prepare for the Doolittle air raid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREKara, Siddharth
Summary: "An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo's cobalt mining operation-and the moral implications that affect us all. Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: In this inspiring, heartfelt account, Lawrence Anthony, conservationist and coauthor of The Elephant Whisperer, traces his efforts to save the endangered northern white rhino.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 599.66 ANTHumphreys, Jessica Dee
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Michel Chikwanine, who at age five was abducted during a schoolyard soccer game and forced to become a child soldier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355 HUMMukwege, Denis
Summary: "From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege's message will be the voices of the many women he has worked with over the years. Dr. Mukwege will use individual cases to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.82 MUKContents: CD 1. Coopération (Franco & Sam Mangwana) (12:08) -- Doublé-doublé (Nyboma) (8:12) -- Africa mokili mobimba (5:07) ; Indépendance cha cha cha (3:04) (Joseph Kabasele & African Jazz) -- Siluwangi wapi accordeon (Franco & O.K. Jazz & Camille Feruzi) (3:53) -- Marabenta (Vamos para o Campo) (Sam Mangwana) (7:48) -- Machette (Les Bantous de la Capitale) (9:12) -- Lina (3:12) ; Tcha tcha tcha de mi...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN GOLMailer, Norman.
Summary: No writer plunged more wholeheartedly into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, as he fearlessly revolutionized literary norms and genres to capture the political, social, and sexual explosions of an unsettled era. Here, for the first time in one volume, are his unforgettable books of the 1960s: two disruptive and visionary novels, and two radically innovative journalistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAIRy-Co Jazz (Musical group)
Contents: Bana Ry-Co (1:58) -- Mambo Ry-Co (3:56) -- Veronica (3:16) -- Caramba da ma vida (3:47) -- Cunvana (2:47) -- Ry-Co Band (4:01) -- Mambe (3:23) -- Twist with the docteur (2:59) -- Gariophona (3:21) -- Give me bombolo (3:21) -- My Zainatu (3:26) -- Baby technical (3:06) -- Sapo pepo (3:32) -- Tu bois beaucoup (3:53) -- Marie Jose (4:59) -- Si I bon di I bon (5:03).
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Publisher / Publication Date: RetroAfric 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN RYCassiau-Haurie, Christophe
Summary: "Madame Livingstone is a historical fiction story of adventure and friendship against the backdrop of World War I. Based on the true story of two vastly different men -- one Belgian, one African -- who take on one impossible mission: sinking of a German battleship in the Congo. Aviator Gaston Mercier, lieutenant in the Royal Belgian Army, arrives at Lake Tanganyika, Congo in 1915 on orders to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catalyst Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CASTout Puissant Likembe Konono no 1 de Mingiedi
Contents: Wumbanzanga (11:52) -- Thin legs (1:59) -- Mama na bana (7:46) -- Makembe (10:24) -- Fula fula (5:06) -- Guiyome (3:11) -- Konono wa wa wa (11:41) -- Nakobala lisusu te (4:10).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Crammed Discs 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KONOkwess International (Musical group)
Contents: Hello -- Musonsu -- Ofakombolo -- Benanga -- Pondjo pondjo -- Emikele ngamo -- Nkoy -- Nzele momi -- Le temps passé -- Ekombe -- Bengai yo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN OKWReid, Stuart A.
Summary: "A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 967.51031 REIHeale, Jay
Summary: Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, languages, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the third largest country in Africa, a former colony of Belgium.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 967.51 HEAVerckys.
Contents: Bassala hot (Afrobeat) -- Ya nini (Congolese Rumba) -- Cheka sana (Afro Funk) -- Oui verckys (Organ Jerk) -- Nakobala yo Denise (Afro Pop) -- Sex vévé (Blues) -- Sisa motema (Psychedelic Rumba) -- Talali talala (Afro Funk) -- Zonga vonvon (Psychedelic Rumba) -- Nakomi paralise (Cavacha) -- Matinda comono (Pachanga).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Analog Africa 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN VERWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.7 WALFreeman, Gregory A.
Summary: In the vein of Crimson Tide, with action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, this is the exciting story of a mutiny that the U.S. Navy denies to this day. In 1972, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when many of the five thousand men cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the unpopular war rioted -- or, as Freeman claims, mutinied. Most disturbingly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 FRESummary: In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONSummary: Soul Jazz Records looks at the explosion of music that came out of the Congo in the years leading up to independence in 1960.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN CONLombardo, A. G.
Summary: Its August 1965 and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOMJohnson, J. Chester
Summary: An illuminating journey to racial reconciliation experienced by two Americans--one black and one white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books Ltd. 2020