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Beah, Ishmael 1980- Child soldiers Sierra Leone Biography Gray, Spalding 1941-2004 Large type books Monologues Readings with music One-person shows (Performing arts) Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Personal narratives Sierra Leone Social conditions 1961- Syria History Civil War, 2011- Personal narratives United StatesBeah, 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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 966.404 BEABeah, Ishmael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2007
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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: "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 BEASummary: 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
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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 2007Campbell, Greg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Westview Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 966.404 CAMAlabed, Bana
Summary: Bana's mother tells her of the strong bana tree that grows in their homeland, Syria, and how Bana's strength helped her survive war, being a refugee, and starting fresh in a new country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Salaam Reads 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALABeah, 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...
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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 2014Forna, 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 FORIrankunda, Pacifique
Summary: "As a little boy, Pacifique Irankunda lived through the thirteen-year civil war in Burundi, the war that upended his home and family, and destroyed Burundi's beautiful culture and traditions. He hid and watched as military units destroyed his village; he and his brother slept in the woods on nights when they heard shooting and violence. From his own memories and those of his family, he tells...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRANKUNDA, PACIFIQUE IRA1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IRA
Bergner, Daniel
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 BERGates, Robert Michael
Summary: The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GATES, ROBERT MICHAEL GATSummary: Documentary providing an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. The principal focus is Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six, and Sunni political candidate who is an outspoken critic of the occupation but passionate about the need to establish democracy in Iraq. As his waiting room is filled daily with patients suffering the physical and mental effects of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2004
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GHOFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELBallour, Amani
Summary: "This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Syria"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2024
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Summary: "Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during his eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. When President Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States would be making a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was vital to get Aziz and his family out before Taliban forces took over the country. Robichaux details the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Univ. Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.71 MCAWard, Clarissa
Summary: "The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict reporter. In this strange age of crisis where there really is no front line, she has moved from one hot zone to the next. With multiple assignments in Syria,Egypt, and Afghanistan, Ward, who speaks seven languages, has been based in Baghdad, Beirut, Beijing, and Moscow. She has seen and documented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARD, CLARISSA WARSummary: Spalding Gray performs a monologue that mostly recounts his trip to Southeast Asia to create the role of the U.S. Ambassador's aide in the 1984 Oscar-winning film The Killing Fields.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios 2013
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS SWIPeterson, Scott.
Summary: "As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother, he brings these events together for the first time to record a collapse that has had an impact far beyond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960.329 PETJal, Emmanuel.
Summary: In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven-year-old Sudanese boy, living in a small village. But as Sudan's civil war moved closer, his family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 962.404 JAL, EMMANUEL JALSileo, Tom.
Summary: "Four weeks after Navy SEALs had killed Osama bin Laden, President Obama stood in Arlington National Cemetery to deliver his Memorial Day address. He extolled the heroism and sacrifice of the two men buried side by side in the graves before him: Travis Manion, a fallen US Marine, and Brendan Looney, a fallen US Navy SEAL. Although they were killed three years apart, one in Iraq and one in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014