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Six-year-old Gretl Schmidt is on a train bound for Aushwitz. Jakob Kowalski is planting a bomb on the tracks. As World War II draws to a close, Jakob fights with the Polish resistance against the crushing forces of Germany and Russia. They intend to destroy a German troop transport, but Gretl's unscheduled train reaches the bomb first. Gretl is the only survivor. Though spared from the concentration camp, the orphaned German Jew finds herself lost...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family's African estate. When Harding plucks young Cressida's beautiful mother and family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants' quarters, Cressida is swept into a life inexorably bound to his. In her new setting, she is conscripted to enliven Harding's...
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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The follow-up to her much-acclaimed debut, A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn's Let the Dead Lie takes listeners back to 1953 South Africa. When Cooper discovers the body of a young child on the Durban docks, he resists the urge to figure out what happened and leaves it for the local police. But after he is accused of the crime, he has 48 hours to clear his name and find a depraved killer.
44) Smokescreen
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An actor who plays a superstar detective in films is asked to go to South Africa to investigate the questionable training of race horses.
47) Thirty girls
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has traveled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her center after a series of failed relationships. In unflinching prose, Minot interweaves their stories, giving...
48) Blood safari
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English
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Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people, a situation that exposes her to political tensions, corruption, and life-threatening violence.
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English
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When an obscure charity recruits Josh Hagarty to manage their activities in a war-torn region of Africa, he's eager to sign on and atone for a past he regrets. Someone is finally giving him a chance. All he has to do is not blow it. Josh tries to lose himself in the job, but soon the precariousness of his situation becomes clear. And when the life of his young sister in the United States is threatened, Josh faces the fact that his employer is not...
51) Beaded hope
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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2011 Carol Award winner for Women's Fiction from ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Four American women, all with their own challenges, embark on a mission trip to South Africa. Their lives are changed as they encounter a group of South African women who suffer from AIDS yet demonstrate great joy and faith in the face of overwhelming adversity. When the Americans discover the amazing beadwork that has been taught to generations of women in...
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Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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From the author of Still Life with Elephant comes the story of one woman and her quest to save a majestic animal.
After a year spent caring for baby elephants in Africa, Neelie Sterling is preparing to return to the States and a life filled with exes-ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, ex-house, ex-horse. But she is leaving behind some unfinished business in Zimbabwe: a very special elephant targeted for execution. With the help of her new friend Diamond-Rose...
54) The power of one
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English
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Set in South Africa during World War II, where a large segment of th Boer population had pro-Nazi sympathies, it tells the story of Peekay, an English boy whose valiant odyssey through a land of tribal superstition and modern prejudice makes him a symbol of belief in oneself to black and white alike. -- From dust jacket.
56) Brotherhood
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"After a fundamentalist Islamist government publicly executes two young people for being in love, their mothers begin a secret correspondence to deal with their grief that leads to the publication of an underground newspaper and ultimately a rebellion."--
58) She
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Although aware that many of his ancestors have failed in the same mission, a young Englishman attempts to find the mysterious white queen who rules a lost African civilization.
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English
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In a newly independent African nation, Salim, a Muslim Indian merchant, opens a store in a small town, whose inhabitants include a Belgian priest, a witch and her son Ferdinand, and a white intellectual named Raymond and his elegant wife Yvette. The president of the new country is a demagogue called the Big Man who hires Raymond as his speechwriter. Gradually the town's veneer of civilization cracks, and chaos and corruption reign.
