Tomi Adeyemi

First book in the author's debut series. Barnes and Noble special edition with ARC. Hardcover comes with special content of annotated chapter and map poster (still attached).

2018, Henry Holt. Both books unread. Paperback ARC is pristine. Hardcover has red boards with special clan symbol. Dustjacket has a slight tear at top of spine.

Two books for your collection! You only pay shipping for one book.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Children of Blood and Bone bundle

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Abraham Verghese

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

Cutting for Stone

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Dave Eggers

South Dakota

A biographical novel traces the story of Valentino Achak Deng, who as a boy of seven was separated from his family when his village in southern Sudan was attacked by government helicopters and became one of the estimated 17,000 "lost boys of Sudan" before

What Is the What

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Judith Jamison

Herb Ritts

Very rare new first edition in very fine condition. In original shrink wrap. Highly collectible. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

A bold new departure for the world's premiere celebrity photographer--an evocative, resonant celebration of the landscape, people, and wildlife of Africa. These maginificent photographs will be a revelation to Ritts's many fans--and a wonderful gift for anyone intrigued by the primal splendor of Africa. 75 duotone photos.

Africa

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Philip Gourevitch

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

Stories from Rwanda

Examines the horrors of genocide in Rwanda, where 800,000 people of an ethnic minority were exterminated in one hundred days

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

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Children of Blood and Bone

Karen Elizabeth Flint

This book has many many pages with highlights and some writing, but otherwise its in great condition. See pictures please.

Florida

African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948

Healing Traditions offers a historical perspective to the interactions between South Africa's traditional healers and biomedical practitioners. It provides an understanding that is vital for the development of medical strategies to effectively deal with South Africa's healthcare challenges.

Healing Traditions

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Levi Benkert

Candy Chand

Heartfelt true story about a man and his family going to Ethiopia to help rescue children from tribal superstition murders.

One man’s radical journey through the heart of Ethiopia

Levi Benkert was playing with his children in the park when he received an urgent phone call from a friend asking him to drop everything and fly to Ethiopia to help organize a rescue orphanage for children destined to be murdered as part of a tribal superstition known as "mingi killings." Moved by his friend's story, Levi packed his bags and left for what he thought would be a short two-week trip. But upon meeting the children, Levi knew there was no turning back. Six weeks later, Levi, his wife, Jessie, and their three young children sold their home and all their belongings and relocated to Ethiopia indefinitely. No Greater Lovedocuments Levi's journey--from the challenges he faced establishing and running the orphanage to finding adoptive homes for the children.

No Greater Love

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Kenneth Bonert

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Georgia

In the tradition of the great immigrant sagas,The Lion Seeker brings us Isaac Helger, son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, surviving the streets of Johannesburg in the shadow of World War II


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 Lithuania?

Isaac's mother is a strong woman and a scarred woman; her maimed face taunts him with a past no one will discuss. As World War II approaches, then falls upon them, they hurtle toward a catastrophic reckoning. Isaac must make decisions that, at first, only seem to be life-or-death, then actually are.

Meanwhile, South Africa's history, bound up with Europe's but inflected with its own accents--Afrikaans, Zulu, Yiddish, English--begins to unravel. Isaac's vibrant, working-class, Jewish neighborhood lies near the African slums; under cover of night, the slums are razed, the residents forced off to townships. Isaac's fortune-seeking takes him to the privileged seclusion of the Johannesburg suburbs, where he will court forbidden love. It partners him with theunlucky, unsinkable Hugo Bleznick, selling miracle products to suspicious farmers. And it leads him into a feud with a grayshirt Afrikaaner who insidiously undermines him in the auto shop, where Isaac has found the only work that ever felt true. And then his mother's secret, long carefully guarded, takes them to the diamond mines, where everything is covered in a thin, metallic dust, where lions wait among desert rocks, and where Isaac will begin to learn the bittersweet reality of success bought at truly any cost.

A thrilling ride through the life of one fumbling young hero,The Lion Seeker is a glorious reinvention of the classic family and coming-of-age sagas. We are caught -- hearts open and wrecked -- between the urgent ambitions of a mother who knows what it takes to survive and a son straining against the responsibilities of the old world, even as he is endowed with the freedoms of the new.


The Lion Seeker

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Trevor Noah

Stories from a South African Childhood

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times * USA Today * San Francisco Chronicle * NPR * Esquire * Newsday * Booklist Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa's tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man's relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother--his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother's unconventional, unconditional love. Praise for Born a Crime "[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah's] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah's family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author's remarkable mother."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "[An] unforgettable memoir."--Parade "What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her--and an enormous gift to the rest of us."--USA Today "[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar."--People

Born a Crime

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Paul Theroux

Connecticut

My Ultimate African Safari

The world's most acclaimed travel writer takes us on one last African journey, from Cape Town to Angola. "Happy again, back in the kingdom of light," writes Paul Theroux as he sets out on a new journey though the continent he knows and loves best. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, he sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, through South Africa and Namibia, to Botswana, then on into Angola, heading for the Congo, in search of the end of the line. Leaving the Cape Town townships, traversing the Namibian bush, passing the browsing cattle of the great sunbaked heartland of the savannah, Theroux crosses 'the Red Line' into a different world: one increasingly removed from both the intineraries of tourists and the hopes of post-colonial independence movements, 'the improvised, slapped-together Africa of tumbled fences and cooking fires, of mud and thatch', of heat and poverty, mobs and anarchy. A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers, The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's ultimate safari.

The Last Train to Zona Verde

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William Kentridge

Philip Miller

Thuthuka Sibisi

Gregory Maqoma

Homi K. Bhabha

Mostly images, stylized scripts, and stage photography. Minor blemish pictured. Barcode sticker removed from inside page, but has traces of adhesive. Library copy. Book is in great condition.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

The Head and the Load

Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI. For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installations , films, and drawings often deal with the political situation in South Africa, apartheid, and the consequences of colonialism. This book gives an in-depth examination of his performance piece The Head & The Load, which explores the role of Africa during World War I. Throughout the war, more than one million Africans carried provisions and military equipment in hazardous conditions for British, French, and German troops at minimal or no pay. William Kentridge tells the story of these African porters who ensured the success of the victors, but remain in the shadows. This history, rarely studied today, unfolds in a staged tableau combining music, dance, acting, screenings, and mechanized sculptures. The book includes photos and text from the performance, essays, and artworks created specifically by Kentridge to complement the play. Accompanied by an international cast of singers, actors, and dancers, and with music composed by Philip Miller, The Head & The Load is a powerful and multifaceted work that reconsiders colonial history and its repercussions in today's world.

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Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

California

Anton Rider Bundle

South Carolina

The Color Purple

Nicky Fitzgerald

New Jersey

Recipies and Stories

Angama Mara is a remarkable owner-run safari lodge located high above the floor of Africa's Great Rift Valley and overlooking Kenya's Maasai Mara, which is considered by many to be the loveliest game reserve in Africa. The name 'Angama Mara' is inspired by the Swahili word for 'suspended in mid-air'. Here guests will find a lodge where everything is simply perfect: two intimate camps of just 15 tented suites each, a private airfield and access to the Mara below, tailor-made safari days and a famously warm Kenyan welcome. A great safari is also about great food, which is not only delicious but also reflects and celebrates the environment. Almost more important than the food itself is where it is served and Angama Mara offers a dazzling choice of dining venues. This book features about 50 delicious recipes plus a gallery of stunning photographs of this magical camp, including the people, the décor, the food and, of course, the reserve.

Out of an African Kitchen

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Maryse Conde

A Novel

The year is 1797, and the kingdom of Segu is flourishing, fed by the wealth of its noblemen and the power of its warriors. The people of Segu, the Bambara, are guided by their griots and priests; their lives are ruled by the elements. But even their soothsayers can only hint at the changes to come, for the battle of the soul of Africa has begun. From the east comes a new religion, Islam, and from the West, the slave trade. Segu follows the life of Dousika Traore, the king's most trusted advisor, and his four sons, whose fates embody the forces tearing at the fabric of the nation. There is Tiekoro, who renounces his people's religion and embraces Islam; Siga, who defends tradition, but becomes a merchant; Naba, who is kidnapped by slave traders; and Malobali, who becomes a mercenary and halfhearted Christian. Based on actual events, Segu transports the reader to a fascinating time in history, capturing the earthy spirituality, religious fervor, and violent nature of a people and a growing nation trying to cope with jihads, national rivalries, racism, amid the vagaries of commerce.

Segu

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The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven.

We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds. #hardcover #fiction #goodreadsauthor #cultural #culture #africa #nigeria #historicalfiction #newyorktimesbestseller #contemporary #nytimesbestseller

A Novel 

The Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of Incendiary presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women. 75,000 first printing.

Little Bee

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All books are in great condition.  Series is missing book 2, 7, and 16!  

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Arizona

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series

#paperback #nonfiction #autobiography #africa #biography #memoir #socialjustice #humor 

Kyle Mills

A riveting book you're sure to love! Keep it for yourself, or give it as a gift!

Josh Hagarty takes a position at a charity organization in Africa, but soon discovers it has ties to the country's genocidal dictator and he has become entangled in a billion-dollar worldwide conspiracy.

Lords of Corruption

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Reneilwe Malatji

A diverse chorus of female voices recount misadventures with love, husbands, and in-laws. A collection of short fiction from South Africa.

Love Interrupted

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No dust jacket, shelf wear on hardcover, previous owners name signed inside front cover see photo some spine separation see photo yellowing of pages but no highlighting no notes one heck of an adventurous life or a great tall tale picture of Trader Horn included 1927 11th or 12th printing

Michigan

TRADER HORN

#paperback #shortstories #non-western #asian #european #southamerica #africa #global #modern #literature #poetry 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Where the Waters Are Born

Compiled to generate students' awareness of cultural diversity and open new boundaries in literature, this anthology presents a broad range of contemporary non-western writings - from Asia, Oceania, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. The text provides a selection of poetry, fiction, plays and memoirs by 180 authors from 61 countries, translated from 23 different languages. Readings were selected based on the writers' significance in their own cultural and literary history, their overall contribution to literature, and their influence on other writers. This sampling - designed for courses in non-western or Third World literature - represents works from many established writers from around the globe.

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Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone bundle

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Cutting for Stone

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What Is the What

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Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone

Karen Elizabeth Flint

Healing Traditions

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No Greater Love

Kenneth Bonert

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Tomi Adeyemi

Children of Blood and Bone

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Born a Crime

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Out of an African Kitchen

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Born a Crime

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Lords of Corruption

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