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1) Kenya
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Discover the people and places of Kenya.
Author
Description
Margaret and Patrick are newlyweds when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices equatorial medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist. In a dizzying multicultural city, she quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites Margaret and Patrick to join them on a climbing expedition...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
201 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Working up the nerve to invite Rose Mbikwa to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball, Mr. Malik, a reserved, honorable widower, is suddenly confronted by the return of his school nemesis, the flashy Harry Kahn, who also sets his sights on Rose.
6) Bait
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
v, 330 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Former Scotland Yard copper Jake Moore, co-owner of a marginal sport fishing outfit in Mombasa, owes an Arab oil dealer $17,000 for diesel fuel because the country's civil unrest has scared off Ernies, pale-faced tourists who came to Kenya in search of big fish. Jake; his fellow Brit partner, Harry Philliskirk; and Det. Insp. Daniel Jouma, possibly the only Kenyan cop not on the take, tangle with a variety of nasties, whose crisis-management skills...
Author
Series
Jade del Cameron novels volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
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Series
Description
"When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the danger, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been investigating how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail. Corruption...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
An American volunteer and a former African street youth recount their romantic relationship, his pursuit of a college education, and their founding of the first tuition-free school for underprivileged girls in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
489 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunningly global novel about a young woman struggling to find her place--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss. On the small island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives a girl named Ayaana. She is solitary and stubborn--she and her mother, Munira, are outcasts from the insular local society--and her kitten is her main companion. When a wizened sailor named Muhidin, also...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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"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...
13) Sulwe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Description
When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Readers are introduced to Cynthia Moss, who devoted her adult life to studying African elephants, the largest land animals on the planet.
Author
Series
Jade del Cameron novels volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vii, 357 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron is about to embark on safari for a Hollywood film. But when the film's financial backer is stabbed to death, the trip is cast under a sinister pall. Now, Jade will be tested as never before.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features
Description
A family on the run for their lives finds themselves in a beautiful but utterly unfamiliar world in this drama based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the increasing dangers of remaining in Germany, Walter seeks exile on a farm in Kenya, while his socially prominent wife, Jettel (Juliane Koehler), and his young...
18) Out of Africa
Publisher
Universal Studios
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The fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband, runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people and a mysterious white hunter.
19) Out of Africa
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Description
In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and...
Author
Publisher
Ekaré
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
La historia de Wangari Maathai, ecologista y ganadora del Premio Nobel de la Paz.
This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
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