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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
Author
Series
Sigma Force volume 16
Language
English
Description
"It begins in Africa . . .A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field. Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them plants and animals has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle known to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
As morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel Anderson is somewhere in the city, terrified and alone, but hopefully still alive. For both cases, time is short and media attention is high. And while the homicide detective has been sober for 156 days, day...
4) Afterlives
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa. When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of east Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza too, is...
5) Cobra
Author
Series
Benny Griessel volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
Author
Series
Treasures of the heart volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
349p. 21cm.
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.
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe's father, following his mother's advice, places her in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as religious atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abebe for the fifteen...
8) Chaos
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their...
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mufaro's two beautiful daughters, one bad-tempered, one kind and sweet, go before the king, who is choosing a wife, in this version of the Cinderella story.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it 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...
Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe, and their friends embark on an exciting counting adventure through the grasslands of Tanzania, discovering all kinds of African animals as they count from one to Ten. Included with the story is a section with facts about Tanzania, and information about each animal, the Maasai people, and the Swahili language.
Author
Series
Treasures of the heart volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
2001 Christy Award winner! Fashion designer Alexandra Prescott fully expects her latest business trip to be an adventure. After all, she is looking for inspiration for a line of exotic fabrics. But her well-ordered plans are shattered by news of financial disaster-and an attempt on her life! Reluctantly admitting her vulnerability, she is forced to turn for help to Grant Thornton, an infuriatingly independent anthropologist whom she has met under...
14) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed.
In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and...
16) Who fears death
Author
Series
Who Fears Death volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 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.
17) Africa
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Africa is often called the Cradle of Humankind. Millions of years ago, it was home to the very first humans, and today it remains a vibrant land filled with diverse cultures. Readers will tour Africa’s varied landscape and get a close look at its many iconic plants and animals. They will also learn about the continent’s history and discover how its people live today. Features include engaging sidebars that highlight unique animals, landmarks...
19) Icarus
Author
Series
Captain Benny Griessel volume 5
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Benny Griessel takes on a high profile murder case after a young tech wiz and the founder of an Internet service for cheating spouses is discovered dead in Cape Town.
Author
Series
Emmanuel Cooper volume 4
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at the Johannesburg major crimes squad, ready for his holiday in Mozambique. A call comes in: a respectable white couple has been assaulted and left for dead in their bedroom. The couple's teenage daughter identifies the attacker as Aaron Shabalala-- the youngest son of Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala--Cooper's best friend and a man to whom he owes his life....