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I Know why the Caged Bird Sing
by Maya Angelou
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “pourwhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic that will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read.
ISBN: 9780345514400
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Jeff Koinange: Through my African eyes Hard Back
by Jeff Koinange
“Through My African Eyes!” is a concise narrative covering some of the major players in 20th century African politics. The book is rich with insights into the personal and intellectual underpinnings of many historical events in Africa. Chronicles of some pretty interesting Africans from warlords, soldiers, victims and politicians lend insight into Jeff’s celebrated journalistic style. Through his eyes we are made to understand the role of journalist’s as binders of our social fabric. “Through My African Eyes” is very informative and quite humorous, utilizing a modern quick precise narrative style. He is able to describe complex global geopolitical issues with incisive analysis. The book surf’s one through the experience with speed and historical accuracy. We see the visual the words impart, rather than being stuck in prose. The best part is being able to walk the journey informed by a largely Kenyan perspective. Jeff outlines clearly how biased reportage can splinter any society and promote its disintegration by pandering to people’s lowest instincts. The narrative draws out lesser-known aspects of his life. Jeff’s unblinking examination of his grandfather’s life is historically illuminating and serves as a symbolic bridge between the beginning and the end of colonialism. Jeff is the first African ever to win a Television Emmy and a George Foster Peabody. He merited the Vernon Jarrett Award as well as the prestigious! ‘Prix Bayeux’ for reportage that arrested global crises.
ISBN: 9789966022141
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Let’s Get Cooking: Super Juicing
Create healthy juices and nutritious drinks with this useful recipe book. Featuring a wide range of recipes with inspiring photography, this hand-sized recipe book offers something for everyone, from delicious vegetable smoothies to fruit-based juices.
With more than 100 recipes to choose from, you’ll be super juicing in no time.
ISBN: 9781785574863
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Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention
Groundbreaking … It will be difficult for anyone to better this book … a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop’ Wil Haygood, Washington Post
‘He was a country bumpkin who became a zoot-suited entertainer who became a petty criminal who became a self-taught intellectual … In his revealing and prodigiously researched new biography, Marable vividly chronicles these many incarnations of Malcolm X, describing the “multiple masks” he donned over the years’ Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
‘Explodes the myths that obscure the real man’ Hugh Muir, Guardian
‘By the end of the 1960s, Malcolm’s disciples had elevated him to what Manning Marable calls “secular sainthood” … But Marable resists the temptation of hagiography and fills in the gaps left by previous books. He gives us Malcolm in all his self-contradiction and self-doubt’ Yo Zushi, New Statesman
‘Lucid, hugely researched and surely definitive … an extraordinary story’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
‘Here at last is the meticulous portrait he deserves’ Andrew Anthony, Observer
Author: Manning Marable
ISBN;9780143120322
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Mandela: A Biography
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Martin Meredith’s vivid portrayal of this towering leader was originally acclaimed by the Sunday Timesas ‘a fitting epitaph to an extraordinary career’ and by the Daily Telegraphas ‘a compelling account of the whole of Mandela’s life’. Meredith’s acclaimed biography incorporates a decade of additional perspective and hindsight on the man and his legacy and examines how far his hopes for the new South Africa were realised.
Mandelais the most thorough and up-to-date account available of the life of its most revered hero.
Author: Martin Meredith
ISBN:9781847399328
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Pocket Guide Mammals of East Africa
by Chris & Mathilde Stuart
East Africa comprises a varied range of habitats which provide living space for more than diverse species of mammal These range in size from the elephant to the tiniest bats shrews and mice This guide covers the common and some of the less common mammal species of the region It is suitable for regulars and visitors to the region
ISBN: 9781770077065
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Power of Positive Thinking
by Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Positive Thinking is a simple, practical, heartfelt guide to enable everyone to enjoy confidence, success and joy. Norman Vincent Peale, the father of positive thinking and one of the most widely-read inspirational writers of all time, shares his famous formula of faith and optimism which millions of people have taken as their own simple and effective philosophy of living. His gentle guidance helps to eliminate defeatist attitudes, to know the power you possess and to make the best of your life.
ISBN: 9780091906382
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Rules of Wealth
by Richard Templar
A personal code For prosperity and plenty
Some people seem to find money so easy. Easy to make, easy to hold on to, and easy to grow. The rest of us just find it easy to spend.
Is it all luck, or is there something rich people know or do that we don’t?
Is it something we could all learn? The answer is a resounding yes. They know the Rules of wealth.
The Rules of wealth are the guiding principles that will help you generate more money, handle it more wisely, grow it more effectively, and use it to live a happier, more fulfilling and comfortable life. In this new edition of the worldwide bestseller, Richard Templar has added 10 brand new Rules to make your life even more rewarding.
IF you dream OF having enough money never to worry about it ever again, you need The Rules of Wealth.
ISBN: 9781292086439
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Sinners
by Sarah Haluwa
A deliciously wicked short story collection.
A desperate housewife will do anything to reignite the flames of passion in her sexless marriage, even if it means turning to the supernatural; a bottle girl has her sights set on a powerful politician, hoping to find her ticket to a life of luxury; love and betrayal intertwine as a happily married doctor discovers that her life is not as perfect as it appears; and a middle-aged woman tastes passion for the first time when she explores the thrilling world of a younger man.
Nairobi’s streets may be bustling by day, but beneath the surface lies a world of seduction, power play, and clandestine desires. Scandal, secrets, and sensuality collide in 10 tales of forbidden lust that celebrate the diverse and defiant expressions of the Kenyan woman’s sexuality.
Peek into the secret sinful lives of Nairobi women how they explore their desires in a world too often disdainful of the female experience and how they defy society’s expectations, in plain sight and in hidden corners one tantalizing story
at a time.A ‘delicious’ rebellion of sin and selfishness.
ISBN: 9789914499735
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Six of Crows : Book 1
The Grishaverse will be coming to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series!*Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2017, this fantasy epic from the No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the Grisha trilogy is gripping, sweeping and memorable – perfect for fans of George R. R.
Martin, Laini Taylor and Kristin Cashore. Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams – but he can’t pull it off alone. A convict with a thirst for revenge.
A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith.
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. Six dangerous outcasts.
One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction – if they don’t kill each other first. An epic new exploration of the Grisha universe from the writer of SHADOW AND BONE, SIEGE AND STORM and RUIN AND RISING, totally consuming for both old fans and new.
ISBN :9781780622286
Published :2 Jun 2016
Author :Leigh Bardugo
Language :English
Main Material :Paperback, Paperback softback
Publisher :Hachette Children’s Group
Size :198 x 129 x 32 (mm)
Weight :412g
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Soros: The World’s Most Influential Investor
“A penniless survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary, George Soros is now one of the richest men in the world, and Robert Slater does an excellent job of helping us understand how Soros did it. . . . Slater distinguishes Soros from other great investors by explaining his mental processes . . . . He explains how Soros views markets as chaotic, not efficient, and very prone to boom-bust sequences. . . . Slater has written a fascinating volume.”–Barron’s
The highly acclaimed bestseller updated to reveal Soros’ role in our new economic and political era
As a financial genius, global philanthropist, political activist, man of conscience, and the world’s only investor with his own foreign policy–it cannot be denied that Soros is an enigmatic man of enormous influence. For more than four decades he has been so successful that he has been accused of directing the course of global markets and shaping the destinies of nations.
Now, in this exhaustively updated and expanded edition of his 1996 bestseller, biographer Robert Slater separates fact from fiction to get at the truth about the mysterious figure of George Soros. Working from extensive interviews with Soros and those closest to him, Slater combines compelling biographical detail with scrupulous analysis to:
Detail how Soros made his billions as a global currency trader and stock operator
Chronicle his role in bringing down communism and establishing open societies to Eastern Europe and the former USSR
Demystify Soros’s macroeconomic approach to investing and his oft-misunderstood theory of reflexivity
Explore his fanatical obsession with unseating George W. Bush in 2004 and his growing involvement with left-wing political activist groups
Reveal George Soros’s strategies for surviving and thriving in the chaos of today’s credit markets
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He’s been hailed as the “World’s Greatest Investor” and “King of the Hedge Funds.” In the 1980s he worked tirelessly and spent lavishly to help bring down communism in Eastern Europe and establish open societies where none existed. Yet he now asserts that his life’s mission is to defend democracy against capitalism and “excessive individualism”. An avowed liberal, he’s vilified on the right and admired by many on the left.George Soros has been making headlines for more than four decades, yet he remains as much an enigma as ever–especially to those who would divine the secrets behind his phenomenal success as a global investor. Now, in this thoroughly updated, substantially expanded edition of his 1996 bestseller Soros, biographer Robert Slater goes beyond the headlines and the oft-told tales to reveal the man behind the legend.
Working from extensive interviews with Soros himself, as well as Soros’s business associates and friends, Slater traces his subject’s life across two continents and more than seven decades. We see Soros as a Hungarian boy whose favorite game was Monopoly; a Jewish teenager on the run from the Gestapo; an émigré in England who waited tables and served as a lifeguard tp survive; a burgeoning intellectual at the London School of Economics with a flair for analytical philosoph; and as a new arrival to his adoptive homeland, the USA.
Slater also closely tracks Soros’s meteoric rise from unsuccessful gold arbitrageur to “The Man Who Moves Markets.” He chronicles many of Soros’s financial triumphs and missteps, digging deep to provide new insights into some of his most sensational coups, including Soros’s history-making move against the Pound-a play that netted him a cool $1 billion and seemingly threatened to break The Bank of England.
And in entirely new chapters devoted to Soros’s political awakening, Slater describes his growing involvement with national politics during the 1990s, his role in helping to launch the liberal political action group, Americans Coming Together, his mounting obsession with George W. Bush following 9/11 and his efforts to unseat him in the 2004 election, and his widely misunderstood involvement with Moveon.org.
Author: Robert Slater
ISBN:9780071608442
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Spirit Hunters #2: The Island of Monsters Paperback
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The thrilling sequel to the Texas Bluebonnet Award-nominated Spirit Hunters!
We Need Diverse Books founder Ellen Oh delivers the next haunting tale in her acclaimed middle grade series Spirit Hunters, a mix of captivating mystery and chilling ghost story.
The perfect spooky read for Halloween, this pulse-pounding adventure will leave you shocked at every twist.
Harper Raine faces new challenges ahead when her parents take the whole family to a remote tropical island for vacation. As Harper starts to have visions of the resort’s history of disappearances and discovers more about the island’s dark and fabled past, she must use her newly acquired spirit hunting talents to save everyone on the island from murderous spirits on the attack.
An exciting and spooky middle grade series, perfect for Halloween reads.
- Publisher : HarperCollins; Reprint edition (June 25, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062430122
- ISBN-13 : 9780062430120
- Reading age : 8 – 12 years
- Lexile measure : 700L
- Grade level : 3 – 7
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 0.54 x 5.12 x 7.62 inches
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