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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
62) Disney's Tarzan
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
" He saw his father executed in battle. He spent his youth avenging that death. And now Henry 'Hal' Courtney is a man with a ship--and a family--of his own. But fate has not finished with Hal. On a voyage along the eastern shore of Africa, a powerful enemy abducts his wife, the fearless warrior Judith...and with her, Hal's unborn child. For Hal, a man all too familiar with loss, there is only one way forward: He must track his nemesis across desert...
64) Edge of truth
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Rotting in an African dungeon is the last place journalist Tess Newell expected to find herself. As she's held hostage by the terrorist group she's investigating, Tess's salvation--and temptation--arrives in the form of another prisoner. A French Foreign Legionnaire with a sinful smile and too many secrets to be anything but dangerous. Yet she knows Flynn is her only hope of surviving. After a daring escape, the two are on the run to retrieve the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 324 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vicey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. It contains a letter recounting the legend of a white sorceress who rules an African tribe and his father's quest to find this remote race. To find out for himself if the story is true, Leo and his companions set sail for Zanzibar. There, he is brought face to face with Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed: dictator, femme fatale, tyrant and beauty. She has...
66) Islandborn
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage" --
67) The promise
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, How beautiful we were tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists...
70) The crooked path
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As retired physician Lettie Louw looks back upon her life, she recounts her coming of age in WWII-era South Africa in this compelling story of delayed love, loss, and reconciliation. Lettie Louw is the daughter of the town physician in their South African village. She spends her childhood in the warm African days playing with her friends and being adored by her doting parents. When she becomes a teenager, she experiences her first taste of unrequited...
71) The lower river
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kurt Krausmann's settled existence as a Frankfurt doctor is torn apart when his wife commits suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, he agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. But as they sail through the Gulf of Aden their boat is boarded by pirates. The two men are taken hostage and imprisoned in a cave on the East African coast. Their ordeal is just beginning: the hostile kidnappers and environment...
73) The fever tree
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising,...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
471 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate and on the run, Tillie Thornton finds herself in an uneasy partnership with Graeme McLeod, a daring adventurer who comes out of nowhere to thwart the plot of Tillie's would-be kidnappers. Now these two must join forces against their common enemies, as well as the challenges of nature, as they embark on a quest that could bring them the answers they seek-or cost them everything. Formerly published as The Treasure of Timbuktu.
78) Who fears death
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1512
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
79) Kingdom of souls
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval. There's only one thing Arrah hasn't tried, a deadly last resort: trading years of her own life for scraps of magic. Until the Kingdom's children begin to disappear, and Arrah is desperate to find the culprit. She uncovers something worse. The long-imprisoned...