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Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
Based on a true story: as civil war rages in Mogadishu, rival North and South Korean diplomats are left trapped. With no aid from either government, their only shot at survival may require uniting with bitter adversaries to escape.
2) Somalia
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Somalia"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope,...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In 2006, 27-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. They moved to Somalia with hopes of starting a family. Then on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open mind and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting....
Author
Language
English
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Description
WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD
"A rich and urgently necessary book" (New York Times Book Review), A Moonless, Starless Sky is a masterful, humane work of journalism by Alexis Okeowo--a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent's wave of fundamentalism.
In A Moonless, Starless Sky Okeowo weaves together four narratives that form a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph...
10) Honor bound
Author
Series
Tides of war (C. Alexander London) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Petty officer Felix Pratt and Sly, a sea lion in the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program, are deployed to the coast of East Africa--their mission is to assist the Navy Task Force 151 in bringing a dangerous Somali pirate to justice.
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vanessa Michael Munroe has a reputation for getting things done-- but her work has left her with blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt. Fleeing to Djibouti, Africa, her only responsibility is greasing the wheels of commerce for a small maritime security company. When her boss pressures her to work as an armed transit guard on a ship bound for Kenya, she discovers the security contract is merely cover for a gunrunning operation of which...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, deep within the inhospitable desert of northern Kenya, Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud, sticks, or plastic, its entire economy is grey, and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of those who have come there seeking sanctuary. Among...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world's largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to America-a distant land where anything was possible. Thousands of displaced families like his were whisked away to the United States in the mid-2000s, leaving the...
Author
Series
Ernst Grip novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.
16) The Hunters
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
Khatar. It's a Somali word for 'dangerous, ' and it's one that Colonel Michael Parson has heard too often on his present mission. His friend Sophia Gold has talked him into using his leave from the Air Force to fly relief supplies into Somalia in an antique DC-3 cargo plane.
Somalia is infested with armed clans, pirates, poverty, and, increasingly, terrorism.Parson and Gold are about to face all of them firsthand. An al-Shabaab leader called The Sheikh...
Author
Series
Paul Janson novels volume 3
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When an oil executive begs Janson to rescue his wife from Somali pirates, Janson and Kincaid view it as the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the company and disrupt their scheme to subvert independent oil-rich African countries. Once on the ground, Janson and Kincaid discover that the pirates may be the least lethal threat. Janson and Kincaid quickly find themselves embroiled in a bewildering storm of plots and counterplots, and their fight to survive...
18) Captain Phillips
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi, must confront his painful past"--
When Abdi's family is kidnapped by a ruthless CIA agent, he's forced to become a child soldier with the ruthless jihadi group Al Shabaab-- embedded as a spy within the militia's ranks and to send dispatches on their plans to the Americans. Training and witnessing atrocity after atrocity, Abdi soon wonders if he's even pretending anymore. Forced...
Author
Series
Mack Bedford novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
An ex–Navy SEAL goes head-to-head with Somali pirates in this explosive military thriller by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Operating out of the Indian Ocean, a heavily armed and professional team of Somali pirates, known as the "Somali Marines," have been capturing large cargo ships in order to ransom them for huge sums of money, enraging the Pentagon.
Tensions reach boiling point after they seize two United States ships, and demand...
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