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Where the Library Hides

Where the Library Hides
  • Author(s): Isabel Ibañez
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1885

AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE. AN ENCHANGED LEGACY. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY. The stunning conclusion to Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, and a rivals-to-lovers romance...

Where You Go, I Will Go

Where You Go, I Will Go
  • Author(s): Christina Fonthes
  • Location(s): Kinshasa, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2004

London, 2004. Bijoux has a secret. To the world, she is the obedient child, dutifully attending prayer meetings and following the rigid expectations of her silent and austere Pentecostal aunt, Tantine Mireille. But Bijoux is in love with a...

While the Sun Is Above Us

While the Sun Is Above Us
  • Author(s): Melanie Schnell
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured and held as a slave...

Whispers of a Secret God

Whispers of a Secret God
  • Author(s): Robert Dunn
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Whispers of a Secret God chronicles a clash of three sub-Saharan cultures battling for dominance in a tangle of drought, famine, and land rights. Slavery and dislocation have exacted a heavy toll, reshuffling ancient social boundaries and challenging long-held...

White Highlands

White Highlands
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can’t be trusted. Beyond manicured lawns, in the dark of the forest, freedom is stirring. Johnny Seymour has seen too much war and...

White Man’s Grave

White Man’s Grave
  • Author(s): Richard Dooling
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in...

White Mischief

White Mischief
  • Author(s): James Fox
  • Location(s): Nairobi
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1940s

Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, when Britain was preoccupied with surviving the Blitz, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside...

Whitefly

Whitefly
  • Author(s): Abdelilah Hamdouchi
  • Location(s): Tangier
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

I want that gun, even if it’s in a fish’s stomach. When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn t just another illegal immigrant who...

Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin

Why Goats Smell Bad  and Other Stories from Benin
  • Author(s): Raouf Mama
  • Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.

Wild Life

Wild Life
  • Author(s): Keena Roberts
  • Location(s): Botswana, Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a “baboon camp” in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split...

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