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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Beneath the Lion's Gaze	Maaza Mengiste	An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, …	OL13852619W
The god who begat a jackal	Nega Mezlekia	"In The God Who Begat a Jackal, the seventeenth-century feudal system, vassal uprisings, religious mythology, and the Crusades are beautifully intertwined with the intense love between Aster, the dau…	OL15843029W
The thirteenth sun	Dāñāčaw Warqu	[7], 173 p. 19 cm	OL15995544W
Yuvi's candy tree	Lesley Simpson	Fleeing famine in her native Ethiopia, five-year-old Yuvi is sure she will have a candy tree when she arrives in Jerusalem.	OL16295826W
The return	Sonia Levitin	Desta and the other members of her Falasha family, Jews suffering from discrimination in Ethiopia, finally flee the country and attempt the dangerous journey to Israel. Jews suffering from discrimina…	OL16480840W
The Various Flavours Of Coffee	Anthony Capella	It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffe merchaant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker…	OL17385718W
Escape under the forever sky	Eve Yohalem	As a future conservation zoologist whose mother is the United States Ambassador to Ethiopia, thirteen-year-old Lucy uses her knowledge for survival when she is kidnapped and subsequently escapes.	OL18108766W
Gifts	Nuruddin Farah	War in Somalia transforms a simple village girl into a self-confident woman who even swims and drives a car. She is Duniya, a widow with three children. By an English-speaking writer, author of Maps.	OL18698W
Day of delight	Maxine Schur	Depicts a young Ethiopian Jewish boy and his family, including their typical daily routine followed by preparation for and celebration of the Sabbath.	OL1947630W
A thirst for home	Christine Ieronimo	"Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. Even though life is difficult, she dreams of someday knowing more abou…	OL19979190W
Fire on the mountain	Jane Kurtz	A clever young shepherd boy uses his wits to gain a fortune for himself and his sister from a haughty rich man.	OL20545201W
The Garbage King	Elizabeth Laird	1 volume ; 20 cm	OL20793775W
Storyteller's Beads	Jane Kurtz	During the political strife and famine of the 1980's, two Ethiopian girls, one Christian and the other Jewish and blind, struggle to overcome many difficulties, including their prejudices about each …	OL21743087W
Yosef's dream	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…	OL23227688W
Blood colony	Tananarive Due	Due's novels about a colony of immortals continues in "Blood colony," as 17-year-old immortal Fana goes on the run from her own parents--only to be hunted by a group with ties to the Vatican.	OL2632186W
The living blood	Tananarive Due	Jessica Jacobs-Wolde worked hard to rebuild her life in Miami after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her daughter Kira at his hand. Four years later, she is still coming to t…	OL2632189W
On the wings of eagles	Jeffrey Schrier	A Jewish Ethiopian boy recounts the story of Israel's 1991 airlift rescue of his threatened people.	OL2687211W
Refugee boy	Benjamin Zephaniah	The story of a young Ethiopian boy, whose parents abandon him in London to save his life.	OL2864812W
Pulling the lion's tail	Jane Kurtz	Her grandfather finds a clever way to help an impatient young Ethiopian girl get to know her father's new wife.	OL55541W
The rich man and the singer	Mesfin Habte-Mariam.	Thirty-two folktales from Ethiopia, twenty-seven of which are from the Amhara people of the central high country.	OL7214595W