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By Dau, Stephenc2012., Adult, Blue Rider Press Call No: Fic Dau Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in the Middle East, fifteen-year-old Jonas is sent to live with a foster family in America and struggles to adapt before revealing the heroics of a missing soldier who saved his life.
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2014., Adolescent, Red Deer Press Call No: Fic Pig Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Phoebe belongs to Master Duncan and works in the plantation kitchen. She sees how the other slaves are treated -- the beatings and whippings, the disappearances. She hasn't seen her mother since Master Duncan sold her ten years ago. But Phoebe is trying to learn words and how to read and when she is asked to show the master's Canadian visitor, Doctor Bergman, where he can find warblers and chickadees she starts to see things differently. And Doctor Bergman has more in mind that just drawing the local birds. Phoebe's friend Shad works on the plantation as well -- but mostly he worries about his brother Will. His brother is the last member of his family and he is determined to escape from the master and the tobacco plantation. He has already been caught and beaten more than once. And the stories about life in Canada can't be true, can they? How does a man survive without the master there taking care of everything?"--From publisher.
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2007., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: 966.4 B365b Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: "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." "In a Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six years old, tells a 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 the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal."--BOOK JACKET.
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v2013., Adult, Penguin Canada Call No: Fic Wui Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Haunted by his traumatic experiences as a relief doctor during the civil war in Sierra Leone during the 1990's, a Canadian man returns years later to try and discover what happened to people that he worked with.
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2018., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: Fic Har Edition: Gallery Books export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Newlywed Ruby Benoit arrives in Paris in 1939 with her French husband Marcel, imagining strolls in the golden afternoon light. But war is looming on the horizon, and as France falls to the Nazis, her marriage begins to splinter. Charlotte Dacher is eleven when the Germans roll into the French capital, and when Jews are ordered to wear the yellow star, she can't imagine things getting much worse. Thomas Clarke joins the British Royal Air Force to protect his country; when his mother dies during the waning days of the Blitz, he wonders if he's making a difference. Fate brings them together, and Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas must summon the courage to defy the Nazis-- and to open their own broken hearts-- as they fight to survive."--Publisher.
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2009., St. Martin's Press Call No: 962.404 J26j Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: 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 freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. Remarkably, he survived, and was adopted by a British aid worker, beginning the journey that would lead him to music: he recorded and released his own album, including the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and has gone on to perform with international music stars, and to use his fame to help children like him.--From publisher description.
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-- Rebelle.2012., Mongrel Media Call No: DVD Fic War Witch Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A brutal yet poetic snapshot of life as one of Africa's child soldiers, following a young girl who is kidnapped from her village by a group of rebel fighters. Forced to gun down members of her family and enemy soldiers, she takes solace in fellow soldier Magician, a young albino with whom she escapes and starts a new life.
![War Witch [DVD] (2012). Directed by Kim Nguyen.](/Library/images/~imageCT75879.JPG "War Witch [DVD] (2012). Directed by Kim Nguyen.")
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2024., Adult, Esplanade Books Call No: BLK Fic Nda Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The paths of a Canadian documentary filmmaker and two former rebel soldiers from the Congo collide in this searing revenge tale about those who profit from the misery of others.
