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1) Blood diamond

Description

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....

2) Foregone: a novel

Author

Banks, Russell

Pub. Date

[2021]

Formats

Book, CD

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A septuagenarian leftist documentary filmmaker gives a last interview from his mythologized life to a former star student to whom he discloses his experiences as a draft dodger who fled to a new life in Montreal.

3) Power and grace: the working horse

Author

Alvermann, Klaus

Pub. Date

1990

4) Snowflake

Author

Weyn, Suzanne

Series

Breyer stablemates

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1

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Snowflake, a rescue animal who has recently been delivered to Fox Creek Farm, needs a warm winter blanket. But who will give him one? Emily, Anna, and Mandy come up with an ingenious plan to raise enough money to buy him a horse blanket that will fit.

5) The Belgian horse

Author

Green, Sara

Series

Horse Breed Roundup

Pub. Date

[2012]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1

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Introduces readers to the characteristics of the Belgian horse and describes their history.

6) The Belgian horse

Author

Maass, Sarah

Series

Edge Books horses

Pub. Date

[2006]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

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This book describes the Belgian horse, including its history, physical features, and uses today.

7) Draft horses: horses that work

Author

Spiotta-DiMare, Loren

Series

Horses that help with the American Humane Association

Pub. Date

[2014]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1

Description

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"Opens with a true story about a man and his draft horses and follows with the history of draft horses, what breeds are used, the training involved, what the horses do on the job, and what happens to draft horses when they retire"--Provided by publisher.

8) Paradise Alley: a novel

Author

Baker, Kevin

Series

City of fire trilogy volume 2

Pub. Date

[2002]

Description

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"For five terrifying days during the Civil War, the streets of Manhattan were taken over by the Draft Riots. ... follows three Irish women living on a small New York City street, each determined to protect herself and her family from the riots and each shouldering devastating burdens"--P. [4] of cover.

9) Wonders of draft horses

Author

Lavine, Sigmund A

Pub. Date

c1983

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Traces the role of the draft horse throughout history and describes the characteristics of some of the most popular breeds including the Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, Shire, and Suffolk.

10) Twenty million yankees: The northern home front

Author

Jackson, Donald Dale

Pub. Date

[1985]

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The northern home front.

11) Work horse handbook

Author

Miller, Lynn R

Pub. Date

℗♭1981

12) Horsepower

Author

Lessiter, Frank

Pub. Date

c1977

13) Gentle giants: the past, present and future of the heavy horse

Author

Whitlock, Ralph

Pub. Date

1995, c1976

14) Draft horses: an owner's manual

Author

Valentine, Beth A

Pub. Date

c2000

15) The draft: a necessary evil?

Author

Taylor, L. B

Series

An impact book

Pub. Date

1981

Description

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Explains the history and present status of the selective service process and argues pro and con draft registration for men and women.

16) Across the Universe

Pub. Date

2007.

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Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.