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Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus can't wait to fly across the world and visit her granny in Canada. But can she find enough warm clothes for the cold winter weather? And will her family miss her?
Author
Language
English
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Description
Ellis Hock never believed that he would return to Africa. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his Eden, the four years he spent in Malawi with the Peace Corps, cut short when he had to return to take over the family business. When his wife leaves him, and he is on his own, he realizes that there is one place for him to go: back to his village in Malawi, on the remote Lower River, where he can...
6) Trackers
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Rhino smugglers, international espionage, and a missing person investigation collide in this “powerhouse read” from the acclaimed South African author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Lemmer’s first rule is “Don’t get involved.” A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa. But when a wealthy farmer asks him...
Lemmer’s first rule is “Don’t get involved.” A highly skilled bodyguard with a violent, criminal past, he has settled into a quiet life in Loxton, South Africa. But when a wealthy farmer asks him...
7) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
“Smith’s thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith’s] most ambitious work yet.” —Esquire
A New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics...
“A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith’s] most ambitious work yet.” —Esquire
A New York Times bestseller • Finalist for the National Book Critics...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--
10) Southern Africa
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus (Early chapter books) volume 4
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, but she is spending Christmas with her granny in Colorado. She can't wait to see snow for the first time! And how will it feel to be so far from home?
12) Small mercies
Author
Publisher
Catalyst Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When social workers begin to scrutinize Mercy's homelife in modern-day Pietermartizburg, she uses life lessons taught to her by Mr. Singh to stand up for herself and her eccentric foster aunts.
14) Afterlives
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of eastAfrica by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
Author
Series
Adventures of Riley volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c[2008], c2003
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Riley travels to South Africa to help his Uncle Max, a conservation biologist, track and count wild animals.
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Discover the rich and complex history of the peoples of Africa, and the struggles and triumphs of Black cultures and communities around the world.
With profiles of key people, movements, and events, The Black History Book brings together accounts of the most significant ideas and milestones in Black history and culture. This vital and thought-provoking book presents a bold and accessible overview of the history of the African continent and its peoples...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A diverse collection of archival footage and interviews of Jean Rouch. Jean Rouch's prolific film career began in French West Africa, where he worked as a civil engineer during World War II, supervising road and bridge construction. Previously, in Paris, he had attended the lectures of Marcel Mauss and Marcel Griaule. In 1946, traveling down the Niger River, Rouch shot his first film with a 16mm Bell and Howell camera, developing an original style...
20) Cause celeb
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London, as well as with her hotshot, unevolved TV presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks the glitz and escapes to run a refugee camp in the African desert. When famine strikes and a massive refugee influx threatens to overwhelm the camp ... Richardson returns to London to organize a star-studded and risky emergency appeal."--Front jacket.
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