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The good lion
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Beryl Markham |
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet. |
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First come the zebra
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Lynne Barasch |
When two young Kenyan boys, one Maasai and one Kikuyu, first meet, they are hostile toward each other based on traditional rivalries, but after they suddenly have to work together to save a baby in d… |
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Nairobi heat
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Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ |
"A young and beautiful white woman is murdered in the US, and the prime suspect is former Rwandan school headmaster Joshua - a hero who had risked his life to save the innocent during Rwanda's genoci… |
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Safari survival
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Jan Burchett |
Twins Ben and Zoe are sent to Kenya to expose and stop the hunters who are killing elephants in the nature reserve for sport. |
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The mystery of the lion's tail
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Harper Paris |
"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,… |
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Safari journal
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Hudson Talbott |
Twelve-year-old Casey is unhappy about being sent on a trip to Kenya with his wacky Aunt Elaine, until he encounters fascinating customs, endangered animals, and wild adventures. |
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What tears us apart
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Deborah Cloyed |
Love lives in the most dangerous places of the heart. The real world. That's what Leda desperately seeks when she flees her life of privilege to travel to Kenya. She finds it at a boys' orphanage in … |
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Death in Kenya
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M.M. Kaye |
Memories, magic--and murder lie in wait on the scorching plains of Kenya
Victoria Caryll departs London for the lush jungle of her Aunt Emily's estate, Flamingo, her adventurous heart full of forb… |
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Children are diamonds
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Edward Hoagland |
This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord's Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing th… |
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Leopard at the door
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Jennifer McVeigh |
"Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm whe… |
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Dance of the Jakaranda
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Peter Kimani |
Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, this story reimagines the special circumstances that brought black, brown, and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the b… |
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Snakepit
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Nick Brownlee |
It's been a hell of a year - and for Detective Inspector Daniel Jouma and his friend, ex-policeman Jake Moore, a fishing trip together represents some long-overdue down time. As usual, trouble is not… |
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Cursive
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Alex Baker |
In 1933, Ralph leaves England for a new life on the island of Lamu, a journey forced upon him by his fiancee's father. In a series of letters, he writes to Lilian using her parting gift--a Mabie Todd… |
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Hell's gate
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Richard Crompton |
Extorting money from displaced people, violence against women, what it means to be Kenyan in a society divided by tribal loyalties, wildlife poaching and where do you find justice in a system where b… |
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Our secret, Siri Aang
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Cristina Kessler |
Namelok, a Masai girl, tries to persuade her traditionalist father to delay her initiation and marriage because they will restrict her freedom and keep her from the black rhino mother and baby she is… |
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Jambi and the lions
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Jennifer Brady |
Jambi, a young Kenyan boy who has befriended a lion cub, tracks a band of poachers who have captured some of the lions in the cub's pride. |
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Muktar and the camels
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Janet Graber |
Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling libra… |
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Mark of the lion
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Suzanne Middendorf Arruda |
An ambulance driver during WWI, Jade del Cameron promises a dying soldier that she'll track down his brother. The only problem is that the soldier's mother, whom Jade goes to visit in London, insists… |
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Stalking ivory
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Suzanne Middendorf Arruda |
On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade hopes to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, she discovers the mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Al… |
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A guide to the birds of East Africa
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Nicholas Drayson |
Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street – except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb-over – but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lie a warm hear… |
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