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Africa Fiction Americans Africa Fiction Christian fiction Johannesburg (South Africa) Fiction Kidnapping Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Police South Africa Fiction South Africa Fiction South Africa History 1909-1961 Fiction South Africa Social life and customs 20th century FictionKim, JiYu.
Summary: "Chief Wusuri is wise and solves the problems of the village. For each problem, he has a solution. When a piece of cornbread goes missing, Chief is sad. He feels he let his village go hungry. To solve this problem, the Chief orders his men to make cornbread for everyone. The village is thankful for Chief Wusuri"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norwood House Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KIMGordimer, Nadine.
Summary: The novel is set in South Africa during the last days of the white regime. The heroine is Vera Stark, a white lawyer who works to restore land taken from blacks by the government. Her political work is played out against a background of family problems, among them an overbearing husband, a lesbian daughter and a son who has emigrated to England and is divorcing his wife. By the author of My...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GORJohansen, Iris
Summary: "Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHBenwell, Fox
Summary: In Khayelitsha, South Africa, Neo's passion for music leads her to her first love--Tale, the female lead singer of a local band--and an internship at the local radio station, and both experiences teach Neo about the risks and rewards of using her own voice to empower others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BENMcVeigh, Jennifer.
Summary: South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVCoetzee, J. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COENunn, Malla.
Summary: Detective Emmanuel Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M NUNPalmer, Matthew
Summary: A disgraceed former State Department star starts over at a Congo m ining facility that's being oppressed by corrupt interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALBarnes, Steven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect/Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMarais, Bianca
Summary: "Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMutch, Barbara.
Summary: "When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the man she is to marry there --her fiance Edward, whom she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a small town in the harsh Karoo desert, her only real companions are her diary and her housemaid, and later the housemaid's daughter, Ada. When Ada is born,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION MUTBildner, Phil.
Summary: Each time Hector watches white boys playing soccer in Johannesburg, South Africa, he dreams of playing on a real pitch one day and after the fall of apartheid, when he sees the 1996 African Cup of Nations team, he knows that his dream can come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BILNdibe, Okey
Summary: A young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the "madman" Bukuru, is asked to account for her death. His shocking revelations land him in court. Alone and undefended, Bukuru must calculate the cost of silence in the face of rampant corruption and state-sponsored violence against women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NDIMason, Richard
Summary: "A haunting, wildly imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure Seeker ("the best new work of fiction ... in many moons; a classic"--The Washington Post); set in the first decades of twentieth-century colonial Cape Town and in a spirit-filled forest of secrets and magic powers. It is 1914. Germany has just declared war on France. Piet Barol, the handsome, irresistible figure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASPalmer, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALPalmer, Catherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALNdibe, Okey
Summary: "This debut novel from the author of the powerful, universally acclaimed Foreign Gods, Inc. looks at a woman's drowning and the ensuing investigation in an emerging African nation. A young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. The last man who spoke to her, the "madman" Bukuru, is asked to account for her death. His shocking revelations land him in court. Alone and undefended, Bukuru must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NDIHemingway, Ernest
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 2005
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Summary: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Nunn 2009Nunn, Malla.
Summary: Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique, 1952. An Afrikaner police officer is found dead. Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of one Captain Pretorius.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNNunn, Malla.
Summary: Police officer Emmanuel Cooper is dispatched to a remote town after a police captain is found murdered in a creek. Even though Cooper judges the crime open and shut, the government's feared Special Branch is summoned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NUNPatterson, Richard North.
Summary: California lawyer Damon Pierce finds his own life in danger when he accepts a desperate plea from his former lover to defend her freedom fighter husband against bogus charges involving the corrupt government of the oil-rich nation of Luandia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LARGE PRINT FIC PATBonert, Kenneth.
Summary: Are you a stupid or a clever? Such is the refrain in Isaac Helger's mind as he makes his way from redheaded hooligan to searching adolescent to striving young man on the make. His mother's question haunts every choice. Are you a stupid or a clever? Will you find a way to lift your family out of Johannesburg's poor inner city, to buy a house in the suburbs, to bring your aunts and cousins from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013