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Ballet dancers United States Biography Juvenile literature Beah, Ishmael 1980- Child soldiers Sierra Leone Biography DePrince, Michaela Orphans Sierra Leone Biography Juvenile literature Popular music Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Fiction Sierra Leone Social conditions 1961- United StatesSierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Contents: Living like a refugee -- Soda soap -- Weapon conflict -- Bull to the weak -- Big lesson -- Let we do we own -- Smile -- Compliments for peace -- Pat Malonthone -- Garbage to the showglass -- Akera ka abonshor -- Kele mani -- I'm not a fool -- Ya n'digba -- Refugee rolling -- Monkey work -- Ma fo ya.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anti 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN SIENabay, Janka.
Contents: Feba -- Eh mane ah -- Tay su tan-tan -- Ro lungi -- En yay sah -- Kill me with bongo -- Somebody -- Rotin.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Luaka Bop 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN NABRogie, S. E.
Contents: Kpindigbee (4:09) -- A time in my life (3:25) -- Nor weighme lek dat (4:03) -- Jaimgba Tutu (2:36) -- Koneh Pelawoe (5:02) -- Jojo yalah jo (4:41) -- Nyalomei luange (2:52) -- African gospel (4:18) -- Nyalimagotee (4:47) -- Dieman noba smoke tafee (6:38).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RealWorld 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ROGSengeh, David Moinina
Summary: "An inspiring young leader's moving call to action for anyone who seeks to make the world a better place-and the first title from Melinda French Gates's Moment of Lift Books. As the newly appointed minister of education in Sierra Leone, David Moinina Sengeh assumed that the administration he served-not to mention his family and friends-shared his conviction that all girls belong in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.822 SENSummary: Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blood 2007Beah, Ishmael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "This is how wars are fought now: by children, traumatized, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. Children have become the soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What does war look like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer?...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a powerfully gripping story. At the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEAKondi Band (Musical group)
Contents: Yeanoh (powe handa blingabe) -- Belle wahalla -- Thank you mama -- Titi dem too service -- Don don mi money -- Thogolingo dembi na -- You wan married? -- Geibai gpanga ne gna -- Kondi instrumental -- Without money, no family (Chief Boima remix) -- Thogolobea (LV remix) -- Y'alimamy (Chief Boima remix).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN KONCampbell, Greg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 CAMBradford, Maria
Summary: As a small country on the west coast of Africa, throughout its history Sierra Leone has always embraced diversity - and this willingness to discover and grow has shaped Sierra Leone's rich food culture. Forged by history, people and place, the cuisine is completely unique. Maria Bradford's recipes, inspired by her grandmother's cooking, have at their heart the traditional meals of Maria's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quadrille, Hardie Grant 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59664 BRABeah, Ishmael
Summary: "A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone When Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone's civil war and the fate of child soldiers that "everyone in the world should read" (The Washington Post). Now Beah, whom Dave Eggers has called...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beah 2014DePrince, Michaela
Summary: "The memoir of Michaela DePrince, who lived the first few years of her live in war-torn Sierra Leone until being adopted by an American Family. Now seventeen, she is one of the premiere ballerinas in the United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 DEPLand, Jon.
Summary: Detective Ben Kamal and sleuth Danielle Barnea join forces when they find themselves caught up in the violence and terrorism of the diamond-rich West African country of Sierra Leone.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANForna, Aminatta.
Summary: Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds unexpected friendship in a young surgeon at the hospital, the charismatic Kai Mansaray, and begins to build...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORLeVert, Suzanne
Summary: "Sierra Leone is a West African nation inhabited by people of different ethnic groups and religious beliefs. However, it's generally known as a tolerant nation, and this engaging exploration of its unique history and culture instills in readers a greater appreciation for diversity. Through well-researched text, clear maps, and vibrant photographs, the natural landscapes, architecture,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 966.4 LEVSummary: Tells the story of the struggle for freedom by thousands of African-American ex-slaves who fled Southern plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. Follows their dream of a journey to freedom in bone-chilling Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone. Features the stories of Englishman John Clarkson, a passionate advocate of the abolition of slavery, and two African men,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROUDePrince, Michaela
Summary: "At the age of three, Michaela DePrince found a photo of a ballerina that changed her life. She was living in an orphanage in Sierra Leone at the time, but was soon adopted by a family and brought to America. Michaela never forgot the photo of the dancer she once saw, and quickly decided to make her dream of becoming a ballerina come true."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED DEPHill, Lawrence
Summary: Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan, Aminata helps pen the Book of Negroes, a list of blacks rewarded for service to the king with safe passage to Nova Scotia. When...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HILKing, Dean
Summary: "In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUIR, JOHN KINGriffin, Joan, M
Summary: Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike "the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world," the John Muir Trail. From the outset, their adventure is complicated by self-inflicted accidents and ferocious weather, then enriched when they "adopt" a young hiker abandoned by her partner along the trail. The women experience the terror of lightning at eleven-thousand feet, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2023
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Summary: An examination of the war in Sierra Leone follows several people through this war-ravaged land, including a family of American missionaries, a child soldier who sometimes resorts to cannibalism, and a father who lost his hands while defending his daughter against rape.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 BEREllis, Aunjanue
Summary: Dreaming of escaping and returning to her African home, slave Aminata is thrown into the chaos of the Revolutionary War, when she helps create a list of black people who have been honored for their service to the king.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2015