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21) Rain
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The animals of the African savanna use their senses to predict and then enjoy the rain.
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 717
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Desde la fría región sueca de Norrland, el joven Hans Olofson viaja a Zambia para visitar la tumba de un misionero legendario. La belleza de Zambia lo hechiza hasta el punto de permanecer en el país durante 18 años. Poco a poco la realidad africana le impone una visiõn de la vida distinta, mientras el racismo de los blancos y el odio de los negros va consumiéndole.
Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary...
Author
Series
Jamela books volume 5
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The summer holidays are here and Jamela is bored as a girl can be! All she can think about is the Afro-Idols TV final, so when she lands a job at Divine Braids hair salon, she can't believe her eyes when Afro-Idols celebrity Miss Bambi Chaka Chaka arrives at the salon to be coiffed. But while Jamela's idol dozes and Aunt Beauty designs her starry hairdo, a buzzy fly appears on the scene and threatens to ruin everything... Can creative Jamela save...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
This collection of interconnected short stories takes Tarzan back to his early years and tells of the exciting and formative events of his youth. These twelve tales show the ape-man before he learned of civilization or truly understood his human heritage. Tarzan finds an unlikely first love and first heartbreak, befriends an elephant, and tries to adopt a child with predictably mixed results. Gentle humor tempers tales of ferocious and violent action...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Africa where they meet up with wonderful wild animals, a very hungry warrior, and where they even solve a riddle.
Author
Series
Adventures of Riley volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Riley travels with his Uncle Max to check on the animal population at a South African game reserve, and he learns lessons about conservation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Persomi is young, white, and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small ... Her older brother Gerbrand is her lifeline and her connection to the outside world. When he leaves the farm to seek work in Johannesburg, Persomi's isolated world is blown wide open. But as her very small world falls apart, bigger dreams become open to her-- dreams of an education, a profession,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In H. Rider Haggard's 1885 debut novel, King Solomon's Mines adventurer Allan Quatermain is approached by aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to join them on an expedition into the heart of Africa. In search of Sir Henry's brother who disappeared looking for King Solomon's lost mines, the trio overcome tremendous odds to stumble upon a lost civilization that holds the key to unimaginable treasure. Considered to be the first of...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"The body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case. A man struggling with his own demons, Eberard discovers secrets that lead him to an underworld of sexual hedonism, to the rotten core of this old university town"--
32) Shifting shadows
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the false leader destroyed, the animals of Bravelands are searching for the true Great Parent, but a mysterious new menace is threatening their lives.
34) Can't scare me!
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fearless little boy ignores Grandma's warning about nighttime monsters until he runs away and meets the two-headed giant's three-headed brother.
38) Conspiracy game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When Jack Norton, a genetically enhanced telepathic assassin on a mission in the Congo, is left vulnerable to rebel forces, he finds an ally in Briony, a strange beauty on a mission of her own that leads them both into a deadly global conspiracy.
39) Private Gold
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"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--and neither is his partner's death"--Amazon.com.
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