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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
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...
Author
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jace Rawlings' open-heart surgery patients hover between life and death. But the messages they bring back following their near-death experiences predict the deaths of people around him and point a finger of suspicion straight at him. Facing a firestorm of controversy and danger, Dr. Rawlings had come to Kenya to establish a heart-surgery program for the poor, but the turmoil of political intrigue and spiritual warfare will put his marriage, career,...
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
4) Sulwe
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--
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