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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
2) The score
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(Hawa Jande),Vee Johnson mystery volume 2
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"Internationally acclaimed newspaper reporter Vee Johnson reprieves her role as Cape Town's most feisty female investigator. Vee and her ever-faithful sidekick, Chloe Bishop, have been banished from City Chronicle's newsroom to review a tourist lodge in sleepy Oudtshoorn. But Vee and Chloe are barely checked in to their rooms when the first body is discovered ... hanging from a tree, with Vee's purple silk scarf used as a noose. But is it suicide...
4) South Dakota
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
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5) Cobra
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"At a guest house in the beautiful Franschhoek wine valley, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed. It's clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: Each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, a skilled young thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. Then one day he picks the wrong pocket, grabbing the wallet of a young American...
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This is a new reading of Alan Paton's impassioned novel about a black man's country under white man's law. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Written with keen compassion and understanding, the novel powerfully evokes the experience of a land and a people torn by racial injustice. Paton said of his book: “It is a song...
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"A heartrending literary memoir of the tragic death of Kohler's older sister describes how in the aftermath of a fatal car accident, the author investigated their unusual shared childhood and her brother-in-law's violent history"--NoveList.
After learning that her sister Maxine was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg, Kohler flew back to the country where she was born, determined to reckon with the tragedy and her...
8) South Africa
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40 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
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An introduction to the land, plants and animals, people, history, government, economy, cities, transportation and communication, and culture of South Africa.
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Best-selling novelist Anne Rivers Siddons transports you to the breath-taking South Carolina coastline where runaway development is colliding with traditional ways. Low Country is her tale of a beautiful middle-aged woman fighting to save her heritage, and ultimately, herself. Caroline Venable's life is nearly perfect-she enjoys prestige, wealth, and a handsome husband. But she has never accepted her daughter's death of nearly six years ago. Whenever...
11) Other birds
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits -- a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside...
12) South Carolina
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144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of South Carolina.
13) South Korea
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144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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Discusses the history, geography, and people of South Korea as well as the country's rich culture and traditions and its beautiful natural areas.
14) South Dakota
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144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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Explores the land, people, history, economy, and travel opportunities of the state of South Dakota.
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549 pages ; 24 cm
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A collection of short fictional works offers insight into the author's use of rich language to convey themes ranging from politics and sexuality to race and family life, in a volume that includes such pieces as "Friday's Footprint" and "Something Out There."
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