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Author
Series
Detective Mollel mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Detective Mollel, a former Maasai warrior in Nairobi, investigates the brutal murder of a prostitute and suspects the killing is part of a far more extensive plot associated with the turbulent elections of 2007.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marking the debut of a bright new literary talent comes an affecting story set in Sub-Saharan Africa that follows three very different women who grapple with motherhood, recalibrate their identities, and confront unexpected tragedies and triumphs. As their lives intertwine in unexpected ways, each must face their own challenges and in doing so, they find there is strength traversing the arid landscapes of tenuous human connection.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Ekarae
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera ediciaon.
Language
Español
Description
When Handa, who lives in a Kenyan village, spends the night with her friend Akeyo, they hear all sorts of noises, but Akeyo assures Handa that the sounds all come from the members of her family, although a look outside the hut would prove differently.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion--a strange, intolerant woman--has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
8) Nairobi heat
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Local police Detective Ishmael--an African-American in an 'extremely white' town--suspects the crime is racially motivated; the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies there, after all. But then he gets a mysterious phone call: 'If you want the truth, you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi.' It's the beginning of a journey that will take him to a place still vibrating from the genocide that happened around its borders, where...
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 18
Publisher
Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The war is over, Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband Gerhard only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe. . . Further afield in Kenya, the last outcrop of the colonial...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories by the Kenyan writer covering the period of British colonial rule and resistance in Kenya to the experience of independence and including two stories that have never before been published in the United States--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Electra d'Apli?se is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she's cracking under all the pressure. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a stranger who claims to be her grandmother. In 1939, New Yorker Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya's Lake Naivasha region for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Book two in the action-packed crime series set in Nairobi featuring an American cop teamed up with a Kenyan partner. When a bomb explodes in a downtown Nairobi hotel, private detectives Ishmael and Odhiambo quickly make the connection to a murder case they're investigating. But the CIA and the local police claim the bombing was the work of Al Qaeda, though it's clear to Ishmael and Odhiambo that something else is going on. They're under pressure to...
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