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  The Day of the Pelican

  by Katherine Paterson

  Meli Lleshi is positive that her drawing of her teacher with his pelican nose started it all. The Lleshis are Albanians living in Kosovo, a country trying to fight off Serbian oppressors, and suddenly they are homeless refugees. Old and young alike, they find their courage tested by hunger, illness, the long, arduous journey, and danger on every side. Then, unexpectedly, they are brought to America by a church... (more)
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  Drita, My Homegirl

  by Jenny Lombard

  A poignant story about the difficulties of leaving everything behind and the friendships that help you get through it. Fleeing war-torn Kosovo, ten-year-old Drita and her family move to America with the dream of living a typical American life. But with this hope comes the struggle to adapt and fit in. How can Drita find her place at school and in her new neighborhood when she doesn’t speak any English?... (more)
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  The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

  by Paula Huntley

  A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances. In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One year later, Paula Huntley's husband signed on with the American Bar Association to help build a modern legal system in this... (more)
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  Something About America

  by Maria Testa

  Immigration in contemporary America is explored in a powerful lyric novel that tells the story of a thirteen-year-old from Kosova who is torn between guilt about her family’s displacement and pride in her new identity.
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  Kosovo

  A Short History

  by Noel Malcolm

  By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part played by Western Europe in its destruction. 'This is a profound and important book, essential reading for those who wish to understand either the complex history or... (more)
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  Madness Visible: A Memoir of War

  by Janine Di Giovanni

  Award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni spent much of the 1990s observing the cycles of Balkan violence and vengeance from inside the cities and villages, from refugee camps, makeshift hospitals, and the homes of citizens under siege. Now, she paints an indelible portrait of the war through the staggering experiences of the people who suffered it. It was a conflict that raised challenging questions: What... (more)
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  Dining with Terrorists: Meetings with the World's Most Wanted Militants

  by Phil Rees

  Featuring a brand new chapter on 7/7, this fiercely intelligent expose is the culmination of twenty years' research. By infiltrating the most inaccessible political resistance groups, hardened reporter Phil Rees has sought to understand what motivates the 'terrorist' or 'freedom fighter' and to weigh this against current world events and the sweeping power of US military might. In his discussions with groups in... (more)
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  Outcasts United

  A Refugee Team, an American Town

  by Warren St. John

  The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing... (more)
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  Are We There Yet? Travels with my frontline family: Travels with My Frontline Family

  by Rosie Whitehouse

  A vivid, funny, and very human account of the author's travels with her family through war-torn Europe. Are We There Yet? is about sitting on the sofa at home and watching cruise missiles rain down on your father's head-then eating your baked beans and doing your homework. It's about being five years old and wondering why Daddy's boots are covered in mud from a mass grave and who was in it. It's the story of... (more)
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  The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War

  by Conor Foley

  A first-hand account of the failure of humanitarian intervention, from Somalia to Iraq. The idea that we should "do something" to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet from Kosovo to Iraq, military interventions have gone disastrously wrong. In this groundbreaking new book, Conor Foley explores how the doctrine of humanitarian intervention has... (more)
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  STRANGE PLACES, QUESTIONABLE PEOPLE.

  by John Simpson

  For over thirty years, John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter, to escaping summary execution in Beirut, flying into Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini, and narrowly avoiding entrapment by a beautiful Czech secret agent, Simpson has had an astonishingly eventful... (more)
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  Kosovo (Bradt Travel Guide)

  by Gail Warrander, Verena Knaus

  Kosovo is likely to become an independent state in 2007, making this Bradt guide a ‘must-buy’ for visitors from the country’s diaspora (which is believed to number over a million), for the many NGOs living out there and, as always, for those keen to explore off the beaten track. Ringed by high mountains crossed by a series of conquerors over the centuries, the country boasts Ottoman mosques, Serbian Orthodox... (more)
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  Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad

  by Jeffrey Fleishman

  Veteran journalist Jay Morgan senses that the simmering conflict in Kosovo is about to take on a new dimension when he hears rumors that a mysterious bearded foreigner, bearing weapons and money and preaching Holy War, has appeared in the rebelsÕ mountain camps. What is his mission? What new horror has he brought? Together Jay and his translator, the beautiful Alija, herself a victim of the war, race to find this... (more)
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  Bosnian Trilogy: Book 2

  The Bridge on the Drina

  by Ivo Andrić

  Alternate title: The Bridge over the DrinaThe Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. "No better introduction to the study of... (more)
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  At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention

  by David Rieff

  Writing from the front lines of the hot wars of the post-Cold War world -- the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and most recently Afghanistan and Iraq for The New York Times Magazine -- David Rieff witnessed firsthand most of the armed interventions waged by the West or the United Nations in the name of human rights and democratization. His report is anything but reassuring. In this timely collection of his... (more)
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  Adem's Cross (Laurel Leaf Books)

  by Alice Mead

  Living in Serb-occupied Kosovo, fourteen-year-old Adem is helpless in the face of his people's adoption of passive resistance, but when his sister is gunned down and his family is singled out for further suffering, Adem decides to escape and put an end to his family's nightmare.
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  Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War

  by Susan L. Woodward

  The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991-92 brought about the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, atrocities on massive scale, and a new term, "ethnic cleansing", for the tactics of nationalist civil war. The failure of Western action to prevent the spread of violence or to negotiate peace disheartened Europeans in their drive to greater unity and turned the euphoria about the "new world... (more)
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  Milosevic: A Biography

  by Adam LeBor

  Slobodan Milosevic, a man the world hoped it would never see again, is currently on trial at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague for crimes against humanity. This engrossing biography documents the life of the former Serbian leader, whose policies instigated wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo as well as the bloody campaigns of ethnic cleansing that destroyed a once multi-national country.... (more)
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  New & Old Wars

  by Mary Kaldor

  Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way we understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war--that is to say, war between states in which the aim is to inflict maximum violence--is becoming an anachronism. In its place is a new type of organized violence which could be described as a mixture... (more)
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  War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation

  The violence following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia has lasted for more than a decade and continues to mark the region. This volume analyses the causes of the conflict and describes its course from the onset of war in Croatia to intervention in Kosovo. The book concentrates on four key transformations: the demise of Yugoslavia and the creation of new states; the importance of nationalist ideologies in the... (more)