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London, 1880. Left destitute after her father's death, Frances Irvine is forced to abandon her life of privilege and emigrate to South Africa. In a remote and inhospitable land, she becomes entangled with two very different men - one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of a smallpox epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond mines does she see her path to happiness. But this is a ruthless world .
2) Eclipse
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Pub. Date
2009
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The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
3) Blood ransom
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Mission Hope series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2009
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317
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Jamela books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Jamela is responsible for fattening up the chicken intended for Christmas dinner, but instead she gives it a name and makes it her friend.
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Neelie Sterling novels volume 2
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010
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388 p. ; 21 cm.
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Neelie reluctantly returns to her life back in the States with her ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, an ex-house, and an ex-horse, and with the help of her new friend, Diamond-Rose, tries to raise funds to save an elephant targeted for execution in Zimbabwe.
10) The herd boy
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Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
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32 col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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While doing a good job of caring for his grandfather's sheep and goat on the grasslands of South Africa, young Malusi dreams of everything from owning his own dog to becoming president one day.
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
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768 pages ; 21 cm
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Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician.
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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
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421 p. ; 24 cm.
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Interracial couple Steve and Jabulile are able to live happily together with their two children in a newly free South Africa, but their lives are defined by the constant struggle to marry their nation's past with its present.
17) H.R.H
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After four years of college in America, Princess Christianna is determined not to return to the stiff, formal lifestyle of her father's court and, hoping to make a difference in the world, persuades her father to allow her to volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1998
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70 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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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.
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Jamela books volume 5
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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It is summer vacation and Jamela is bored, until her Aunt Beauty asks her to come and help her get her hair salon ready for a special client, who turns out to be "Afro-Idols" contestant Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka.
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