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Author
Publisher
Park Row
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family. Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a barren Maasai woman, must confront her infertility in a society in...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1988.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent saga of two proud and powerful families-one British, one African-and their battle over Kenya's destiny in the twentieth century.
In 1917, Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya, determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with...
3) Sulwe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
Author
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Margaret and Patrick join a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the African mountain and how these events have transformed her and her marriage, perhaps forever.
Author
Series
Secret agent Jack Stalwart volume 6
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old secret agent Jack is called to Kenya to help Chief Abasi find out who is killing elephants for their ivory tusks and to stop the poachers before any more of the endangered animals are harmed.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Twins Ethan and Ella are in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and there's another mystery to solve. Where are all the lions? Ethan and Ella spot lots of cool animals, but the one they're most excited about, they can't seem to find"--
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
All Alex wants is a normal life, but the MI6 draws him back into the spy life, convincing him to spy on a charity organizer at a GM crop plant.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 17
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A lion cub is kidnapped while the Thea Sisters visit a Kenyan safari, and they must travel across the savanna to rescue him.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
15) War cry
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The saga of the legendary Courtney family continues in this fourteenth installment in Wilbur Smith's bestselling series-the sequel to 2009's Assegai-a thrilling tale of espionage, adventure, and danger, set in Africa and spanning from the Great War's end to the dark days of World War II.As a member of the remarkable Courtney family, Leon Courtney knows how quickly fortunes can be won and lost. Over the course of more than two centuries, generations...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories by the Kenyan writer covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the experience of independence and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States--Provided by publisher.
17) White bone
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson. When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the threat, and then attempt to retrace...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm...
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