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1) Afterlives
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"Erudite, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the schutztruppe askari, the Germans' colonial troops; after years at war, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, but was sold; he has come of age in the schutztruppe, at the right hand of an officer whose zeal and control have ensured his protection but marked him for life. He does not have words for how the war ended for him,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1918, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
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His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in--and fascination with--big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and...
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Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a refugee camp for Somalis. After twelve weeks, they're ready for a break and pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure. Bandits hijack them and take them as hostages. John Wells is asked to try to find them, but he does so reluctantly. When he arrives in East Africa, he finds that the truth behind the kidnappings is far more complex than he imagined. The White House is edging closer...
6) Assegai
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Series
Courtney novels volume 12
Pub. Date
[2009]
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The eagerly awaited sequel to Smith's thrilling Egyptian series, "Assegai"--set in 1913 British East Africa--is a stunning, heart-pounding, journey into the lost world of the Pharaohs.