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Assassination Bosnia and Hercegovina History 1992- Djilas, Milovan 1911-1995 Songs, Romani Songs, Serbian World War, 1914-1918 Influence Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Atrocities Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Bosnia and Hercegovina Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Personal narratives, American YugoslaviaFilter By Subjects
Assassination Bosnia and Hercegovina History 1992- Djilas, Milovan 1911-1995 Songs, Romani Songs, Serbian World War, 1914-1918 Influence Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Atrocities Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Bosnia and Hercegovina Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 Personal narratives, American YugoslaviaSummary: A tragicomedy about love, friendship, betrayal, manipulation and lies. Deals with the conflicts of Yugoslav history of the past fifty years. The story starts from an underground manufacture of weapons of Belgrade, during WWII. The black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans forgets to mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. 50 years later, they become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UNDBunjevac, Nina.
Summary: Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi s Persepolis and Joe Sacco s Palestine, Nina Bunjevac s Fatherland is a searing work of graphic nonfiction that tells the history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author and her family. In 1975, fearing her husband s growing fanaticism, Bunjevac s mother flees her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Livright Publishing Corporation 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7 BUNDrakulić, Slavenka
Summary: "Slavenka Drakulic confronts one of recent history's most difficult and important subjects in her new book, They Would Never Hurt a Fly. An examination of the war criminals being prosecuted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the book shows Drakulic at her most incisive as she seeks to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 DRASabic-El-Rayess, Amra
Summary: In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 SABCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA B SABIC-EL-RAYESS SABCohen, Roger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 COHJudah, Tim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.6 JUDSummary: A story of a sixteen-year-old boy becoming an adult in Sarajevo in the 1960s. Dino grows up with his good but ailing father and is attracted by the world of small-time crime. Then Dolly Bell, a lovely cabaret girl, turns his world upside down.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment Company 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOParenti, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 PARSeierstad, Asne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7103 SEIHolbrooke, Richard C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.703 HOLO'Grady, Scott.
Summary: True story of how O'Grady managed to live through a missile impact at 27,000 feet, the techniques he used to survive in a barren and hostile landscape, and the real story behind the daring daylight resuce mission carried out by the U.S. Marines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.7024 OGRRieff, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.742 RIEO'Keefe, Emily
Contents: Fast facts -- A visit to Bosnia -- The Archduke and the Emporer -- The Black Hand -- The assassination -- The First World War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 OKEHarris, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 949.7024 HARContents: Ramajana / Muharem Serbezovski & Ansambl Crni Diamanti -- Kada zvona zvone / Šaban Bajramović & Ansambl Miodraga Mitrovića-Bate -- Pe romnasa o Miro turisti đelo / Hajra Sučurija & Ansambl Kud Ibar -- Đurđevdan, Đurđevdan / Esma Redžepova & Ansambl Teodosievski -- Amen sama but Roma / Duet Đurić-Runjaić & Sekstet Dušana Radalića -- Ramu, Ramu / Muharem Serbezovski & Ansambl Meda Čuna -- Selime...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN STAGregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022