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Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Against the odds, Michel managed to escape and find his way back to his family, but he was never the same again. After immigrating to Canada, Michel was encouraged by a teacher to share what happened to him in order to raise awareness about child soldiers around the...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans
24) Congo
Author
Language
English
Description
On an expedition to return Amy, his talking gorilla, to her home in the Congo, Professor Peter Elliot is joined by others who hope to find a legendary diamond mine guarded by mutant gorillas.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A stunningly beautiful and heartbreaking lens on the global refugee crisis, from a man who faced the very worst of humanity and survived to advocate for refugees everywhere One night when Mondiant Dogon, a Bagogwe Tutsi born in Congo, was very young, his father's lifelong friend, a Hutu man, came to their home with a machete in his hand and warned the family they were to be killed within hours. Dogon's family fled into the bush, where they began...
26) Lumumba
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Français
Description
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated
27) Special ops
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 9
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
665 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 639 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Van Reybrouck reviews some of the most dramatic episodes in Congolese history -- from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II; from global indignation to Belgian colonialism; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's brutal rule; and from the world famous Rumble in the Jungle to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today....
Author
Publisher
ForeEdge, an imprint of University Press of New England
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present. Author Eli Greenbaum is a leading expert in sub-Saharan herpetology--snakes, lizards, and frogs--who brings...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A painstakingly researched work by the author of Charlie Peace finds a gifted young pianist traveling through the Congo to meet a former mentor with whom he shares a dark past, a journey during which he falls in love with a Congolese army officer's wife
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
551 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nina Wilde is back on the hunt. Now a presenter of her own TV documentary series, Nina is in Jerusalem. Clues found at the Ark of the Covenant recovery site have led her to the ruins of the First Temple, buried beneath Temple Mount. Within them, Nina spots an opening to a previously hidden chamber - a map room which contains a model of a mysterious city thought to contain a great yet dangerous power hidden by King Solomon himself. Analysing the clues,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they...
36) Congo
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
37) Gorilla dawn
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Imara and Bobo, two children being held by rebel soldiers, are determined to return a captive baby gorilla back to the forest before it is sold.
39) Rickie & Henri
Author
Publisher
Minedition/Penguin
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; cm.
Language
English
Description
When her human guardian goes on a business trip, Ricki, an orphaned chimpanzee infant, adopts Henri, a shaggy dog, as her "mother."
Author
Publisher
Twelve, Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, investigative reporter Ravi Somaiya uncovers the story behind the death of renowned diplomat and UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld"--
On September 17, 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld boarded a Douglas DC6 propeller plane in Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo. Hours later, he would be found dead in an African jungle with an ace of spades...
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