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Everyman's library volume 174
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is a gripping exploration of the human soul set against the mysterious backdrop of the African Congo. This novella takes readers on a haunting journey into the depths of human darkness, both in the heart of the African wilderness and within the hearts of its characters.
The story follows Marlow, a sailor who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River in search of Kurtz, an enigmatic ivory trader. As Marlow travels...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Separated from their mother by the harsh social and economic conditions prevalent among blacks in South Africa, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother make a journey of over 300 kilometers to find her in Johannesburg.
Author
Series
Benny Griessel novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
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Language
English
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
11) Private: gold
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Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for an easy job-but when he tries to protect an American woman, nothing is what it seems in a web of money, betrayal, and murder . . .
Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not what it seems ....
Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not what it seems ....
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Kurt Wallander mysteries volume 3
Language
English
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Swedish inspector Kurt Wallender investigates the murder of a woman whose body was stuffed in a well. The case has international ramifications, involving a plot against Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A worldwide best-seller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law is a work of searing beauty.
Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also the story of a land and a people driven by racial injustice. The book is written with such
...20) Eclipse: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Description
The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
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