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4) The matatu
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A young boy takes a ride on the matatu bus with his grandfather for his fifth birthday, and along the way his grandfather tells him the story of why dogs chase the bus, goats run from it, and sheep pay no attention to it.
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370 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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American adventuress Jade del Cameron has returned home to British East Africa to help the Perkins and Daley Zoological Company collect wild animals for zoos in the States when the body of a local merchant is found on a coffee-growing plantation and the prime suspect is Jade's beau, movie-maker and ace World War I flyer Sam Featherstone.
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vii, 357 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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Intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron is about to embark on safari for a Hollywood film. But when the film's financial backer is stabbed to death, the trip is cast under a sinister pall. Now, Jade will be tested as never before.
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"When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger"--Page 4 of cover.
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Mosquitoes don't bite Nala Simiyu. It's part of who she is, like being a half-Kenyan seventh-grader whose mother is in a wheelchair. But Nala's ability to repel mosquitoes attracts the interest of drug company scientists. Soon she's on a trip to Kenya to help investigate mosquito resistance in her father's family. Danger -- and a kidnapper -- intervene. Brave, fallible, compassionate and spirited, Nala is a strongly relatable character in a loving,...
12) Sulwe
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
13) Community soup
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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What do you get when you combine young gardeners, their tasty vegetables and a herd of mischievous goats--a recipe for disaster or a bowl of delicious soup? Includes recipe.
In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, the children work together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share, but some goats are trying to eat all the vegetables.
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xv, 456 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
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This is the last of Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors Lewis and Fleming have taken great pains to publish as complete and faithful a publication as possible without editorial distortion. Hemingway called this title his "African Book." It is a thoughtful, adventuresome, and comedic recounting of his final safari in Africa.
16) Dust
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369 pages ; 25 cm
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"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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Based on a true story about a young Kenyan boy whose mother left him but had named him Muthini which meant suffering because he was born with no fingers on his left hand and only two on his right. Many times he was made fun of or avoided which hurt him deeply. He lives with his very elderly grandmother, his Nyanya, along with many cousins whose parents had either died or left them. They are extremely poor and there is never enough money or food, but...
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Hardy boys mystery stories volume 178
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151 pages ; 20 cm.
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The Hardy boys, vacationing with their father in Nairobi, become involved in a dangerous case when they decide to investigate the illegal hunting of some of the area's wild animals.
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