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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
DescriptionThe author sets before the reader a lifelike image of the deities of classical times as they were conceived and worshipped by the ancients themselves, and thereby to awaken in the minds of young students a desire to become extra intimately acquainted together with the noble productions of classical antiquity. The aim was to render the legends, which shape ...
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ManufacturerKessinger Publishing
Categories General   Egypt   Africa   Egyptian   Folklore & Mythology   Paperback   Printed Books  
Heart of Darkness (Broadview Literary Texts)
DescriptionWhat much differenttiates this edition of "Heart of Darkness" from the many others available is the extent to which it is devoted to placing the topic in context. To this end the reader will locate a chronology of Conrad's life, a chronology of the Congo, a pick and choose bibliography, and - perhaps much importantly - a very substantial selection of ...
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ManufacturerBroadview Press
Categories General   Conrad, Joseph   Classics   Contemporary   Literary   Action & Adventure   All 4-for-3 Deals   General AAS   Africa   Paperback   4-for-3 Books   Printed Books  
Strength in What Remains
DescriptionTracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Award and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder provides us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in ...
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ManufacturerRandom House
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   General   Medical   East Africa   Burundi   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree this lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million ...
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ManufacturerHay House
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Religious   Memoirs   Women   General   Motivational   Central Africa   Rwanda   Violence in Society   Inspirational   Paperback   Printed Books   Illustrated  
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you go away Sierra Leone?”
“For the reason that there is a war.”
“You indicate, you saw people running all-around together with guns and shooting every other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should inform us concerning it ...
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ManufacturerFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Categories Memoirs   General   Sierra Leone   West Africa   Paperback   Printed Books   Herge  
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela : With Connections (HRW Library)
DescriptionAn international hero, winner of the Nobel Peace Award, and leader of South Africa's antiapartheid movement chronicles his life, counting his tribal years, his time spent in prison, and his return to lead his people. 175,000 first printing. Key ad/promo. The famously taciturn South African president reveals much of himself in Long ...
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Categories BISAC Test   Textbooks Trade-In   Mandela, Nelson   General   Southern Africa   Hardcover   Printed Books   Young Adult   Abridged   Nonfiction   Adolescentes   Herge   Wells, Rebecca   All product   Books  
The Wretched of the Earth
DescriptionFrantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961, it analyses the role of class, race, national culture and violence in the struggle for liberty. Fanon, ...
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ManufacturerGrove Press
Categories Algeria   General   Literary Theory   Emigration & Immigration   Paperback   Printed Books  
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
DescriptionHelene Cooper is "Congo," a descendant of two Liberian dynasties -- traced back to the first ship of freemen this set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled together with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was in addition an ...
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ManufacturerSimon & Schuster
Categories Formats   Textbooks Trade-In   African-American & Black   General   Memoirs   Journalists   Liberia   Hardcover   Printed Books   Illustrated   Herge  
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
DescriptionHailed by reviewers as "great,""haunting" and "a tour de force of personal journalism,"When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms together with his present. Prize winning author and journalist Peter Godwin writes together with pathos and intimacy concerning Zimbabwe's spiral into chaos ...
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ManufacturerBack Bay Books
Categories Formats   General AAS   Memoirs   Journalists   General   Southern Africa   Zimbabwe   Paperback   Bargain Books   Printed Books  
In the Company of Heroes
DescriptionMichael Durant became the focus for these events when his Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over the city of Mogadishu. He crash-landed in enemy ground, breaking his spine and together legs. His helicopter was shortly surrounded by merciless Somali troops. Afterwards a sustained gun battle in which his co-pilot and two passengers were killed, Durant was ...
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ManufacturerBantam Press
Categories General   East Africa   Somalia   20th Century   Paperback   Printed Books  
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