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Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian...
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While the Ethiopian Civil War rages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to know the true location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens -- a mortar strikes the prison and he is free! Old, frail, and injured, he escapes to the jungle, where he encounters two Western journalists and a beautiful freelance photographer taking refuge from the carnage....
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Templar novels (Paul Christopher) volume 5
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Waking up in a futuristic Mumbai with five snake bites, Meena is compelled to return to her native Ethiopia by way of a forbidden path spanning the Arabian Sea; while a girl from a different time, Mariama, flees a traumatic experience to Ethiopia in search of a better life.
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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""The History of a Difficult Child is an extraordinary novel." —Maaza Mengiste, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Shadow King “An exhilarating novel by a powerful new writer.” —Elif Batuman, author of Pulitzer-Prize finalist The Idiot and Either/Or A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution Wisecracking,...
9) Cry wolf
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Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Jake Barton, a tough engineer from Texas; Gareth Swales, a stylish English gunrunner; and Vicky Chambers, a pro-Ethiopian American journalist, become caught in a troubling triangle and in Ethiopia's struggle against Mussolini's invading armies.
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With the threat of Mussolinis army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and his wife Asters household. Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassies army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. His initial kindness to Hirut shifts into a flinty cruelty when she resists his advances, and Hirut finds herself tumbling into a new world of thefts and violations, of betrayals and...
11) King of kings
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Ballantyne novels volume 6
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Cairo, 1888. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital...
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Egyptian series (Wilbur A. Smith) volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing
Pub. Date
(2018)
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English
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For 4,000 years, the lavish crypt of the Pharaoh Mamose has never been found...until the Seventh Scroll, a cryptic message written by he slave Taita, gives beautiful Egyptologist Royan Al Simma a tantalizing clue to its location.
Summary: When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of...
13) Addis Ababa noir
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Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't." --
"Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony--until they don't. "Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and revenge. Some are surreal--fitting for a culture where, as Mengiste writes...
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