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2081) There Flies the Witch
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Red may not know who her true family is, but she's determined to find out where she belongs, in this story about magic, nature, family, love, and betrayal. There Flies the Witch will enchant fans of Erin Entrada Kelly, Tae Keller, and Grace Lin.
Red doesn't remember who she is or where she came from. In fact, her only memory is a terrifying, repeating dream of a threatening shadow and a foggy field. But after many years, she wonders if that's just...
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As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something-and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard. And as they grow, so do her plans...
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Mary L. Dudziak is professor of law, history, and political science at the University of Southern California. Her books include Cold War Civil Rights, September 11 in History, and Legal Borderlands.
Mary Dudziak's Exporting American Dreams tells the little-known story of Thurgood Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the early 1960s. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v. Board of Education,...
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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this Spanish-translated nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired...
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In April 1965, Che Guevara set out clandestinely from Havana to Congo to head a force of some 200 veteran Cuban soldiers to assist the African liberation movement against Belgian colonialists, four years after the assassination of the democratically elected socialist president of Congo, Patrice Lumumba. This diary deals with what Che admits was a "failure," and he examines every painful detail about what went wrong in order to draw constructive lessons...
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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this Spanish-translated nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired...
2088) Dear Olly
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Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation's favourite storyteller a moving story of a brother, a sister and a swallow, and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly's brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans, through war, in Africa. He wants to be a clown and make them laugh. His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university....
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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first South African President of Africa in this nonfiction biography. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, readers are sure to be inspired by Mandela's amazing...
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Nelson Mandela helped create a new world for South Africa in his fight against apartheid. Readers will learn about Mandela's fight for peace and equality and how he used peaceful protests to make his way from a political prisoner to the first black President of South Africa in this nonfiction biography that has been translated into Spanish. Featuring colorful images, informational text, timelines, a glossary of terms, and an index, this text will...
2091) The Butterfly Lion
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Celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the stunning, classic story of an unforgettable friendship with a glorious colour gift edition, fully illustrated by Christian Birmingham. "All my life I'll think of you, I promise I will. I won't ever forget you. “Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears...
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In March of 2020, the cosmopolitan
daughter of Saharawi refugees travels to visit her family in the forgotten refugee
city-camps scattered in the Western Sahara desert. What was supposed to be a
long-awaited homecoming becomes a comically desperate adventure escaping border
guards and surviving on candy bars, all the while trying to avoid losing her
cool with unwanted and unlikely traveling companions.
At the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak,...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Léopold Sédar Senghor, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir la política de discriminación y de paternalismo que Francia aplica sobre sus colonias, y que genera el nacimiento de un sentimiento anticolonialista
• Conocer a Léopold Sédar Senghor, que sueña con una civilización universal...
2094) The Happiest Lion Cub
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A lion cub prince, with passion for music, struggles with his destiny to be king.In the savanna lands of Africa lives a lion cub who dreams of being a musician. But his father is against this desire because he expects his son to become king of all the animals. And in order to become the king, he must learn how to growl menacingly, not how to play instruments and sing. Will this lion cub really have to abandon his dreams to fulfill his destiny?
2095) Aquarian Dawn: A Novel
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In Nigeria-born, America-based author Ebele Chizea's stunning debut novel, teenager Ada and her mother flee the civil war of their West African home and come to America in 1966, where Ada soon discovers-and blossoms within-the US counterculture movement, developing a drive for anti-war activism which she takes with her back to Nabuka only to uncover new truths about herself as well as family secrets that threaten to shatter her plans for the future....
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Un état des lieux magistral du continent le plus tourmenté du monde. Un livre profondément émouvant et optimiste. Chaque fois que vous tentez d'expliquer « L'Afrique, c'est... », les mots se désagrègent, se dissolvent. Chaque fois que vous tentez d'exprimer une généralité sur l'Afrique, il y aura toujours au moins cinq pays qui feront exception. Et quand vous pensez être arrivé à une certitude, vous réalisez que le point de vue opposé...
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Yikealo was a young father when his government rounded him up and sent him to one of the deadliest places on the planet to learn how to kill. It would take years of hard sacrifice just to regain his freedom... and more than a decade of uncertainty just for a chance to see his family again."As for walls and fences to pen us in, there are none. We are free to leave, if we choose, but there is nowhere for us to go and almost certain death for anyone...
2098) Journey of Hope
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Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement throughout the South. The back-to-Africa movement held great new appeal to the South's most marginalized citizens, rural African Americans....
2099) The Thousand Steps
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On the brink of execution, 16 year old Ebba den Eeden is unexpectedly elevated from the bunker deep in Africa's Table Mountain where she has lived all her life, believing--as do all the other teenagers who toil daily to make their food and power the bunker--that the world 'Above' is uninhabitable due to a nuclear holocaust. Instead, she is heiress to a massive fortune-one that everyone wants to control. While dealing with the machinations of the High...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Léopold Sédar Senghor en moins d'une heure!
« J'ai toujours rêvé de concilier francophonie et négritude. Ce rêve est maintenant une réalité. » Cette phrase de Léopold Sédar Senghor adressée à l'UNESCO reflète bien le combat de ce grand homme du XXe siècle. Alors que la France se défait peu à peu de ses colonies africaines, Léopold Sédar Senghor souhaite mettre en place une collaboration...
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