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In the falling snow
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Caryl Phillips |
From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.Keith--born in England in t… |
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Enigma variations
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Sally Price,Price, Richard |
Noted writers on art, culture, and the tropical Americas, Richard and Sally Price have crafted a mystery at the intersections of art and anthropology. Drawing readers into their quest for a solution,… |
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Quest for the lost prince
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Dave Jackson |
Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappeara… |
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Where's Jamela?
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Niki Daly |
When Mama gets a new job and a new house, everyone is excited about moving except Jamela, who likes her old house just fine. |
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Juma and the honey guide
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Robin Bernard |
After teaching his son how to find honey by following the honey-guide bird, an African father insists that they thank the bird by sharing some of the honey with it. |
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Akata warrior
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Nnedi Okorafor,Carla Bataller Estruch,Yetide Badaki |
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead… |
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Kaleidoscope song
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Fox Benwell |
In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences tea… |
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City of saints & thieves
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Natalie C. Anderson |
Sixteen-year-old Tina and two friends leave Kenya and slip into the Congo, from where she and her mother fled years before, seeking revenge for her mother's murder but uncovering startling secrets. |
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Amistad
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D'Arcy Adrian-Vallance |
"It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is carrying African slaves to America. There is a bloody fight on ship, and the Africans are free. But soon they are in prison in the US. Must they return to the… |
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Bodyguard
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Chris Bradford |
373 pages ; 20 cm |
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Journey to Jo'Burg
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Naidoo,Beverley Naidoo |
For use in teaching literature to high school students. |
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Yosef's dream
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Sylvia A. Rouss |
"Now a young man in Israel, watching his brother become a Bar Mitzvah, Yosef remembers back to his own childhood in Ethiopia, and the dream he had, foreseeing the miraculous air rescue of Operation S… |
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I owe my soul
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Diane Mechem Kinser |
"Set in the coal-rich hills of southeastern Ohio during the early twentieth century, I owe my soul: the Black Diamond covenant traces the lives of three diverse women who set small town Nelsonville a… |
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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Nancy Farmer |
From the Publisher: The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister-the children of Zimbabwei's chief of security-have escaped from their father's estate to explore the dangerous city of Ha… |
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Taste of salt
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Frances Temple |
In the hospital after being beaten by Macoutes, seventeen-year-old Djo tells the story of his impoverished life to a young woman who, like him, has been working with the social reformer Father Aristi… |
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The watermelon =
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Gill Bond |
Charming picture book about sharing |
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Journey to Jo'burg
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Beverley Naidoo |
“Has no equal. Evocative and haunting.” (School Library Journal starred review)
The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of… |
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Somehow Tenderness Survives
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Hazel Rochman |
Summary, A collection of ten short stories and autobiographical accounts by authors of various races expose the conditions of racism in South Africa. |
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Hue Boy
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Rita Phillips Mitchell |
Everyone in little Hue Boy's island village has suggestions on how to help him grow, but he learns to stand tall in a way all his own. |
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Over the green hills
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Rachel Isadora |
Zolani, who lives in a rural black homeland in South Africa, goes with his mother to visit his Grandma Zindzi. |
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