Gurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: The adventures of a 12-year-old African boy sold into slavery by his father to pay off a debt. The setting is East Africa, a place of trade caravans, tribal warfare and the beginnings of European colonization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURBohjalian, Chris
Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BOHThornton, Mark R.
Summary: "This lean, raw, and surprising debut is a deeply moving and powerful story of Moses, a nine-year-old survivor of the harsh streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Moses longs for something outside the grim existence he has known. He and his friend Kioso hitch a ride out of the city on the back of a truck only to find themselves in the wilderness where their street wisdom no longer helps them as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2015
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Summary: Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms of wildebeests crossing the Mara River, and herds of zebra storming the sandy plains. Their glamorous guests--including Katie's best friend, Carmen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOHSwindells, Madge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWIKrebs, Laurie.
Summary: Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe and their friends embark on an exciting counting adventure through the grasslands of Tanzania, discovering all different kinds of African animals as they count from one to ten.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2004
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Summary: "Hassan Omar is a gifted young man, with a potentially bright future but a past marred by poverty. In the wake of a national uprising, and with a new government in place, though, he is denied a scholarship to a university abroad and deprived of the opportunity to study further. Instead, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURMurray, Marjorie Dennis.
Summary: As animals tell one another about Hippo's strange behavior, each makes up something terrible to add to the story, until they are frightened that Hippo will destroy the Serengeti itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish 2005
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Summary: Pilgrim Jones' husband has just left her for another woman, stranding her in a small Swiss town where she is one day involved in a tragic accident. Overcome with guilt, she alights for Africa, befriending a series of locals, each with their own tragic past and each isolated in their own way. Mysteriously, one day a witch doctor's curse is carried into town, setting everyone in the remote...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FINStilton, Geronimo.
Summary: Bruce Hyena convinces Geronimo to join him in climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, a task for which the mouse journalist is completely unprepared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED STIGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the memory of recent conflict--the longed-for independence from British colonialism swiftly followed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURFlanagan, Richard
Summary: One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting , a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLAArnott, Robbie
Summary: A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARNOgada, Ayub.
Contents: Obiero -- Dala = Home -- Wa winjigo ero -- Thum nyatiti -- Kronkronhinko -- Chiro -- 10% -- Ondiek = Hyena -- Kothbiro -- En mana kuoyo.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Real World Records 2012