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City of Saints & Thieves

City of Saints & Thieves
  • Author(s): Natalie C Anderson
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

The Hunger Games meets The Thief Lord in this enthralling murder mystery set in Kenya. In the shadows of Sangui City, a street-thief called Tina patiently plots her revenge. Her mother has been shot dead at the home of...

Dance of the Jakaranda

Dance of the Jakaranda
  • Author(s): Peter Kimani
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Death in Kenya

Death in Kenya
  • Author(s): M M Kaye
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Mystery

The Mau Mau terrorist uprising is now over, but when Victoria joins her family on their beautiful Rift Valley estate, the horrors continue. What began as the malicious persecution of a poltergeist has ended in brutal murder. In the...

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest: A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book

Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest: A Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book
  • Author(s): Rebel Girls, Eugenia Mello (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and environmentalist from Kenya. Wangari lives in the lush, green, land of...

Dust

Dust
  • Author(s): Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His sister, Ajany, and their father bring his body back home, to a crumbling colonial house in northern Kenya. But the peace they...

Grass Shoots

Grass Shoots
  • Author(s): Jane Bwye
  • Location(s): Kenya, Africa, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1998 - 2015

This sequel to Breath of Africa is a tender love story, completing the saga of Caroline and Charles and their respective families, against the backdrop of modern day Kenya. Emily, an AIDS orphan, and Paul, Caroline’s son, are good...

Handa’s Surprise

Handa’s Surprise
  • Author(s): Eileen Browne
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this picture book classic, a delightful surprise colourfully unfolds when a little girl called Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend. A modern classic named one of the best culturally diverse picture...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Hiding in Plain Sight
  • Author(s): Nuruddin Farah
  • Location(s): Somalia, Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Bella learns of the murder of her beloved half brother by political extremists in Somalia, she s in Rome. The two had different fathers but shared a Somali mother, from whom Bella s inherited her freewheeling ways. An...

Homecoming

Homecoming
  • Author(s): Luan Goldie
  • Location(s): Kenya, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is always with her and weighs heavily on her heart. Kiama has had to grow up without a mother, and while...

In Desert and Wilderness

In Desert and Wilderness
  • Author(s): Henryk Sienkiewicz, Andrew Anzur Clement
  • Location(s): Africa, Egypt, Kenya, South Sudan, The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1884

A fourteen year old Polish boy and his British friend Nell are kidnapped by extremists in 1884 British Colonial Africa. They are taken hostage deep into uncharted wilderness, where they must struggle to survive with the help of their...

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