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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura's Let the Games Begin is a page-turning debut rom-com about two strangers at the top of their game. Athens, 2024. Olivia Nkomo has always been ambitious, smart, and an overall go-getter. Now that she's graduated from university, she's willing to do whatever it takes to land her dream job at the Summer Games. The first step? Securing her new internship,...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A powerful novel about five young people, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together, from the internationally bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. Hidden away from a harsh and chaotic outside world, five young people have cobbled together a home for themselves in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their country's tumult. At seventeen, Elimane, the bookworm, is as street-smart as he is wise: the group's...
Author
Series
Tambudzai novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widows boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and...
8) Minute zero
Author
Series
Judd Ryker novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Judd Ryker, a State Department crisis manager, becomes embroiled in an emergency in Zimbabwe, where a challenge to the presidency has resulted in roving armed gangs, military crackdowns, shady financing, and reports of enriched uranium being available for purchase.
9) Men of men
Author
Series
Ballantyne volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of Cecil Rhodes as he struggles to build an empire in Africa on diamonds and land and of the tribe destroyed by his dream.
"The second book in the epic Ballantyne series Zouga was left alone, as alone in spirit as he had ever been in any of his wanderings across the vast African continent. He had spent almost the last penny he owned on these few square feet of yellow earth at the bottom of this hot and dusty pit. He had no men to help him...
11) The angels weep
Author
Series
Ballantyne volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The third book in the epic Ballantyne series "The lion rose lightly into the air, and settled like a huge yellow bird on the horse's back, crushing Jan Cheroot beneath his massive, blood-streaked body. At that instant, horse and rider and lion seemed to disappear into the very earth, and there was only a swirling column of dust to mark where they had been." A new generation. An age-old struggle. Ralph Ballantyne is following in his father Zouga's...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer thatDeo finds renewed hope.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
This Newbery Honor book by award-winning, bestselling author Nancy Farmer is being reissued in paperback! Eleven-year-old Nhamo lives in a traditional village in Mozambique, where she doesn't quite fit in. When her family tries to force her into marrying a cruel man, she runs away to Zimbabwe, hoping to find the father she's never met. But what should have been a short boat trip across the border turns into a dangerous year-long adventure, and Nhamo...
15) A falcon flies
Author
Series
Ballantyne volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Thrown together on a voyage to Africa's fever-ridden shores, Dr Robyn Ballantyne and the ship's Master battle with all the fury of natural enemies. This is a saga of adventure and exploration, plotting the courage and determination of one woman amidst fierce and ruthless men.
16) The last leopard
Author
Series
Legend of the animal healer volume 3
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A third prophecy, this time involving a leopard, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical healing powers over animals, when she travels with her grandmother and best friend Ben to Zimbabwe.
Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume 4
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Zaffre Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Craig got no further, for Tungata's anger turned to red fury. He was shaking with it, it clouded his gaze and knotted the muscles at the points of his heavy lantern jaw. "Be silent,'he hissed. 'You meddle in matters that you do not understand, and that do not concern you. Leave this land before they overwhelm you."' His family's past. His country's future. Bestselling author Craig Mellow is tired of fame, and wants only to return to his family's old...
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