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2007, c2006., Adult, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Blood Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.
![Blood diamond [DVD] (2006). Directed by Edward Zwick](/Library/images/~imageCT74556.JPG "Blood diamond [DVD] (2006). Directed by Edward Zwick")
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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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c2010., Adult, Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: BLK Fic For Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Freetown, Sierra Leone: a devastating civil war has left an entire populace with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital's hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon is plagued by demons that are beginning to threaten his livelihood. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a university professor who recalls the love that obsessed him and drove him to acts that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer by Adrian, a British psychiatrist with good intentions, and into the path of one woman at the centre of their stories. "The Memory of Love" is a heartbreaking story of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances."--Publisher.
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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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2007., W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: BLK Fic Hil Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
