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"A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the Dangerous Things. Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, who meets Lucy at the end of their freshman year at a liberal arts college in South Carolina. Margot is the shy one, the careful one, always the sidekick and never the center of attention. But when Lucy...
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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...
4) The promise
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A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, brilliantly written by Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family gradually comes apart after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of a changing South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power;...
5) 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...
6) The witness
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After stumbling upon a chilling small-town secret in South Carolina, a determined public defender must protect herself — and her young son — from those who want them dead.Kendall Deaton pulls herself and her baby out of a wrecked car, and a mixture of courage and fear gets her to the top of a ravine, where she flags down help. But she doesn't dare reveal her true identity to the authorities. Instead, she plans her immediate escape,...
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"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins -- a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a...
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Zay Harding goes on an adventure to the ends of the Earth, from Ushuaia, Argentina to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island, the South Shetland Islands, and on to Antarctica. He sails the Antarctic Peninsula marveling at cathedral sized glaciers, icebergs, and an array of wildlife. Follow Harding as he ice climbs, kayaks, camps, and even plunges into the ice cold Antarctic waters. His journey ends with a treacherous crossing of The Drake Passage...
10) 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...
12) South Dakota
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48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
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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...
14) 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.
15) South Carolina
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64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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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...
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A stunning novel about murder, power, and a dangerous South African underworld. Cooper works undercover surveillance on the seedy Durban docks, but when a young boy is brutally murdered he must elude the police to conduct his own investigation. He discovers an international tussle for the political soul of South Africa.
18) South Korea
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"Busy. Beautiful. Ancient. Welcome to South Korea! Look inside to learn abour the land, cities, food, holidays, and wildlife of this incredible country."--Page 4 of cover.
19) Skull water
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"Growing up outside a US military base in South Korea in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Insu -- the son of a Korean mother and a German father enlisted in the US Army -- spends his days with his "half and half" friends skipping school, selling scavenged Western goods on the black market, watching Hollywood movies, and testing the boundaries between childhood and adulthood. When he hears a legend that water collected in a human skull will cure any...
20) 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...
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