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1) The feather thief: beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century

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Johnson, Kirk Wallace

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English

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364.1628 JOHNS

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[2018]	Viking	308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 4 available 364.1628 JOHNS Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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2018	OverDrive	Unabridged	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Available Online	More Info Check Out OverDrive Preview Part 1 Preview From the book

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2018.	Gale	483 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...

2) To be a friend is fatal: the fight to save the Iraqis America left behind

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Johnson, Kirk W

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Scribner

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[2013]

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English

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956.7044 JOHNS

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[2013]	First Scribner hardcover edition.	Scribner	338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 956.7044 JOHNS	More Info Place Hold

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In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators-young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted...