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I will not be broken : 5 steps to overcoming a life crisis / by White, Jerry,1963-(CARDINAL)490620;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Case studies.; Adjustment (Psychology); Land mine victims;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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I will not be broken [sound recording] : 5 steps to overcoming a life crisis / by White, Jerry,1963-(CARDINAL)490620;
Read by the author.The activist co-founder of the Survivor Corps shares strategies for rebuilding a happy life in the aftermath of a personal crisis, describing his own inspirational story about how he overcame the loss of his leg to a landmine in northern Israel and his receipt of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Subjects: Adjustment (Psychology); Audiobooks.; Land mine victims;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The other side of the sky : a memoir / by Ahmedi, Farah.(CARDINAL)472516; Ansary, Mir Tamim.(CARDINAL)363182; Ahmedi, Farah.Story of my life.;
The gondola -- Where we came from -- When I was very little -- Going to school -- The shortcut -- Alone in Germany -- Back home? -- Losing my family -- Escape from Afghanistan -- Living as a refugee -- Talking to God -- Making the list -- Sojourn in Islamabad -- Arriving in America -- Discovering America -- Enter Alyce Litz -- High school in America -- Learning to drive -- The fashion show -- Looking back, looking ahead.850LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Ahmedi, Farah.; Refugees; Refugees; Land mine victims; Afghans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The story of my life : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky / by Ahmedi, Farah.(CARDINAL)472516; Ansary, Mir Tamim.(CARDINAL)363182;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Ahmedi was born just as the war between the mujahideen and the Soviets reaches its peak in Afghanistan. The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes were as normal to her as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America. When she stepped on a land mine on her way to school, she began to learn--slowly--that ordinary people, often strangers, have immense power to save lives and restore hope. She was taken from a childhood in Afghanistan, where the classrooms are naked chambers with only chalkboards on the walls and are filled with more students than seats (and no books), to a Chicago adolescence, where teenagers struggle to decide whether to try out for school plays, whom to take to the homecoming dance, and where to go to college. This story was selected from hundreds submitted to ABC's Good Morning America.850LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Ahmedi, Farah.; Refugees; Refugees; Land mine victims; Afghans;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The last enemy [videorecording] / by Beesley, Max,1971-actor.; Berry, Peter,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)774593; Carlyle, Robert,1961-actor.; Cumberbatch, Benedict,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)357183; Macdonald, Iain B.,director.; Marinca, Anamaria.actor.; Neal, Gub,producer.; Box TV (Firm),producer.; British Broadcasting Corporation,producer.(CARDINAL)143648; Castel Film Romania (Firm),producer.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)producer.(CARDINAL)154259; WGBH Video (Firm),producer.(CARDINAL)268015;
Disc 1. Episode 1 (ca. 90 min.) : Prologue ; Stephen and Michael ; Yasim and Nadir ; Proposition ; Old flame ; Welcome to T.I.A. ; Refugee #9 -- Episode 2 (ca. 60 min.) : Dead microbiologists ; Man without a vehicle ; Plans for an autopsy ; Some answers about Nadir.Disc 2. Episode 3 (ca. 60 min.) : Tagged ; In Hell ; Few moments of madness ; Kellerman-Deloit ; Back to Cooper -- Episode 4 (ca. 60 min.) : Smell of napalm in the morning ; Saying goodbye ; No ID ; Welcome to the swamp ; Hand-holding -- Episode 5 (ca. 60 min.) : Aftermath ; Thinking like a doctor ; More than a tag ; Last enemy.Executive producer, Rebecca Eaton ; producer, Gub Neal ; director, Iain B. MacDonald ; writer, Peter Berry.Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Carlyle, Max Beesley, Anamaria Marinca.Originally broadcast on Masterpiece Theatre in 2008.Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the public face on a government super-database and find himself part of a program that has the ability to watch and record the actions and movements of every individual.DVD, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Television programs for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Television programs); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Land mine victims; Man-woman relationships; Mathematicians; Recluses; Recluses;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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Sowing the dragon's teeth : land mines and the global legacy of war / by Winslow, Philip C.(CARDINAL)642761;
MARCIVE 6/1/12Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165).Author's Note: The Worst War in the World -- i. "No One Knows Where the Mines Are Buried" -- ii. Chisola -- iii. The Road to Canage -- iv. Mutilados -- v. "Mines Are Not My Problem" -- vi. Turner, Priestley, and Rice -- vii. Under Siege -- viii. Why Does It Take So Long? -- ix. A Museum of Crutches -- x. Luckiest Survivor in the World -- xi. "Not War, but Murder" -- xii. The Campaign to Ban Mines -- xiii. "All I Want to Do Is Drive a Truck" -- Map of Angola.Each year an estimated twenty-six thousand people are killed or maimed by land mines - more than 100 million of them sown like the mythical dragon's teeth in over seventy countries. These weapons are designed to maim soldiers, but instead, most victims are civilians, especially the rural poor. Antipersonnel land mines represent an expensive legacy of twentieth-century warfare - one we have not yet eradicated: More than a million new mines are laid each year, far more than can be removed with today's technology. Philip C. Winslow draws on his years as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa to show us the human effects of this calamity. Winslow also writes about the Campaign to Ban Landmines and the ways in which the dragon's teeth might finally be pulled from the earth so that it can be restored to those who live on it.
Subjects: Political atrocities; Land mines; Land mine victims;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The story of my life [sound recording] : an Afghan girl on the other side of the sky / by Ahmedi, Farah,author.(CARDINAL)472516; Ansary, Mir Tamim,author.(CARDINAL)363182; Sultan, Masuda,narrator.;
Read by Masuda Sultan.When ABC News's Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences about romance, adventure, loss, and overcoming tremendous odds, the network never imagined receiving more than twenty thousand pages of inspiring, heartbreaking, and hopeful stories. But that's exactly what happened. After a panel of bestselling authors and editors chose three finalists, America was given the opportunity to vote on which aspiring author would have his or her story published. The Story of My Life is the result of the most ambitious and all-inclusive search ever conducted to discover and publish an extraordinary life story.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Ahmedi, Farah.; Women; Young women; Afghans; Land mine victims; Refugees; Refugees;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Secrets in the fire / by Mankell, Henning,1948-2015.(CARDINAL)342216; Stuksrud, Anne Connie.(CARDINAL)544940;
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Subjects: Fiction.; Amputees; Children and war; Land mine victims; Amputés; Enfants et guerre; Mozambique; Victimes de mines antipersonnel;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The long reckoning : a story of war, peace, and redemption in Vietnam / by Black, George,1949-author.(CARDINAL)769948;
Includes bibliographical references and index.War: Going to B -- Of Mountains and Machines -- The Summer of Love -- Socks on an Octopus -- Saddle Up, Cowboys! -- Grunt -- Orphans of Creation -- This Is Not a Practice -- "Tonight You Die, Marine" -- Peace: Scavengers -- The Smoky Landscape -- Benefit of the Doubt -- Untangling the Tangle -- Bring Our Daddy Home -- The Third Rail -- The Things They Carried Back -- A Vietnamese in Disguise -- Redemption: Policing the Brass -- Milk That Glowed in the Dark -- The End of Our Exploring -- The Road to Damascus -- Great Loss and Confusion -- Angry Ghosts -- The Worst Thing, the Best Thing -- The Painter, the Sprinter, and the Monk -- Unfinished Business -- Turning the Ho Chi Minh Trail Brown -- The Pocket of Fire -- The End of the Trail -Epilogue : Hill 674."The moving story of a small group of veterans, scientists, and pacifists who forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the horrors inflicted on the Vietnamese with unexploded munitions and the toxic defoliant Agent Orange"--
Subjects: Agent Orange; Agent Orange; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; War victims; Unexploded ordnance; Land mines;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 20
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Eight survived : the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture / by Campbell, Douglas A.(CARDINAL)501933;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268) and index.Map of the World War II career of the USS Flier -- Treacherous passage -- Pacific peril -- Missing from action -- A gathering of men -- A second chance -- Welcome to the War -- Strangers in their native land -- The wages of winners -- Mines and mariners -- Back toward glory -- Trapped in the path of war -- Changed orders -- In the shadow of death -- Choosing freedom -- Spirits of the land -- By land and by sea -- Into the jungle -- Escape -- Map of the eight submariners' survival and rescue.
Subjects: Biographies.; Flier (Submarine); Disaster victims; Shipwrecks; Submarine mines; Submariners; Survival; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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