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Series
Magic tree house volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg on an errand for a friend and to visit his son, Absalom, only to learn Absalom has been accused of murdering white city engineer and social activist Arthur Jarvis and stands very little chance of receiving mercy.
5) Thirty girls
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving...
Author
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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...
8) Smokescreen
Author
Series
Eve Duncan volume 25
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle--but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows."--
10) Bloodline
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Painter Crowe and his team of elite operatives are recruited on a mission to rescue a pregnant American, who is the daughter of the president and has been kidnapped by Somali pirates, and, as Commander Gray Pierce and his team search the jungles of Africa, it becomes clear the woman is a pawn in a plot involving a priceless icon that holds terrifying powers.
Author
Series
Espasa juvenil volume 78
Publisher
Espasa
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
Español
Description
The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
13) The night ranger
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John Wells goes underground in Africa to track four kidnapped Americans who had traveled to Kenya to work in a refugee camp.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
"Jacob's Rest is a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect. When an Afrikaner police officer is murdered, the powerful police Security Branch, dedicated to flushing out black communist radicals, preempts Detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation. But Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. Instead, he strikes out...
16) Steeplejack
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga, Ang for short, works repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of Bar-Selehm, the ethnically-diverse industrial capital of a land resembling Victorian South Africa. The city was built on the trade of luxorite, a priceless glowing mineral. When the Beacon, a historical icon made of the largest piece of luxorite known to exist, is stolen, this news commands the headlines. Yet no one seems to care about the murder...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimaging the full story of the Learned Man - a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned...
18) Broken Pride
Author
Series
Bravelands volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes.
19) Shifting Shadows
Author
Series
Bravelands volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With the false leader destroyed, the animals of Bravelands are searching for the true Great Parent, but a mysterious new menace is threatening their lives.
Author
Series
Dark star trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search...
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