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Echoes, Dreams & Shadows: Tales ...
Echoes, Dreams & Shadows: Tales from Nairobi is a collection of short stories that explore the city's allure, chaos, and resilience. It explores the city's beauty, contradictions, and the unbreakable spirit of its residents. The anthology is a tribute to a city that never sleeps, where survival is an art and love is a gamble.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happi...
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer, and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne--the life of every party-- who is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York. It now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there.
Neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why, or how close the enemy is, how powerful.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot, a crafty whodunit, and a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite.
It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of that country's fiercest political activists, who just happens to be a global literary giant.
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Z...
'You can't stop birds from flying, can you, Sameer? They go where they will...'
1960s UGANDA. Hasan struggles to keep his family business afloat following the sudden death of his wife. As he begins to put his shattered life back together piece by piece, a new regime seizes power, and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built.
Present-day LONDON. Sameer, a young high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams. Called back to his family home by an unexpected tragedy, Sameer begins to find the missing pieces of himself not in his future plans, but in a heritage he never knew.
Moving between two continents over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is an immensely resonant novel that explores racial tensions, generational divides and what it means to belong.
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Brief Summary
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.
Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.
As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960.
It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior—to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.
Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature."
Storms of Strength by Stella Kingori
Welcome Home: A Guide to Building a H...
In her debut book of inspiration, poet Najwa Zebian shares her revolutionary concept of home - the place of safety where you can embrace your vulnerability and discover your self-worth. It's the place where your soul feels like it belongs, where you are loved for who you are. Building your home inside yourself - and never experiencing inner homelessness again - begins here.
In Welcome Home, Zebian shares her story for the first time, powerfully weaving memoir, poetry and deeply resonant teachings into her storytelling, from leaving Lebanon at sixteen, to coming of age as a young Muslim woman in Canada, to building a new identity for herself as she learned to speak her truth.
After the profound alienations she experienced, she learned to build a stable foundation inside herself, an identity independent of cultural expectations and the influence of others. With practical tools and prompts for self-understanding, she shows you how to build each room in your house, which form a firm basis for your self-worth, sense of belonging and happiness.
Welcome Home provides the life-changing tools for building that inner space of healing and solace.
A Vulture’s Feather by JAMLICK ...
Efrem, a gifted Ethiopian surgeon from the marginalized Beta Israel community, defies prejudice, oppression, and impossible odds to reach the pinnacle of British medical training. Born into a world where his people-derisively called Falashas-face systemic discrimination, state-sponsored persecution, and the brutal grip of a Marxist dictatorship, Efrem's journey is one of resilience, ambition, and unbreakable spirit.
Through famine, political turmoil, and the weight of history, he fights for his place in a world that refuses to recognize the worth. But will his hard-earned success be enough to free him from the past, or will the ghosts of his homeland forever haunt him?
A Vulture's Feather is a powerful tale of survival identity, and the cost of chasing dreams in a world determined to keep you grounded.
KAGA by Janet Opiyo
Novela ya Kaga inaangazia msichana Saida Jitihada ambaye anafikwa na mengi maishani. Hayati baba yake mzazi, Bwana Sanifu Jitihada , mwalimu mashuhuri wa lugha ya Kiswahili anagonga vichwa vya habari kwa usanifu na ubunifu wake. Saida anampoteza mama yake siku ya kutangazwa matokeo yake katika mtihani wa kitaifa. Binti Jitihada anajitoma katika huba na Siti Mlungwi, mjukuu wake Bwana Hasidi. Hasidi mkubwa wa aila ya Jitihada.
Je, Saida ataweza kukabiliana na changamoto hizi na kusimama imara dhidi ya upinzani unaoikumba familia yake?
Abunuwasi by Gado Swahili Edition
Brief Summary
Full color comic book in Swahili. This 32-page book is a cartoon rendering of three traditional folk tales from the Swahili tradition of the East African coast. Abunuwasi is a character from the "trickster" tradition of African folklore: he finds ways to trick the greedy and the selfish and always wins, and every story has a moral. The stories are funny and clever and Tanzanians and Kenyans have grown up on them for generations.
Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiongio
The Mau Mau rebellion, as it is often called, which began in Kenya in the early 1950s, was a nationalist, anticolonial armed resistance against the British colonial state.
The guerrilla movement called itself the Kenya Land Freedom Army; the British dubbed the movement “mau mau,” a meaningless name, to obscure the aims otherwise so clear in the resistance army’s name.
Ngugi Wa Thiongío’s Petals of Blood examines, among other things, the betrayal by the postcolonial regime of the ideals of this anticolonial struggle that helped Kenya achieve its independence.
The novel revolves around three men and a woman. The four friends reveal different aspects of their history to each other piecemeal, just as their families had guardedly explained the past to them. The lingering effects of the Mau Mau revolt have affected all their lives and by the end of the novel, each character is wrapped up in his or her own exclusive epiphany about life in Kenya.
Abdullah, the trader, thinks he failed the movement because he did not avenge the death of a friend who was a revolutionary and who was betrayed. Munira, the schoolteacher and eventual wide-eyed prophet, is paralyzed by the shadow of his successful father, who condemned the Mau Mau but aided the crony corruption of independent Kenya. Wanja, the beauty from a broken home, learns that it was two generations of revolutionary fervor that distorted the home she grew up in. And Karega, Thiongío’s union-pushing hero, scrutinizes the history of Mau Mau as if it were a sacred text. Somewhere in that history, they all believe, is the key to wisdom and justice.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Brief Summary
Tolstoy’s epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything – beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.
Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life – and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself. This acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN/ Book of the Month Club Translation Prize in 2001.
Their translation is accompanied in this edition by an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John Bayley ‘The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must’ – Lisa Appignanesi, Independent, Books of the Year ‘Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy’s "characters, acts, situations”‘ – James Wood, New Yorker
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ISBN:9780141199610
Author:Leo Tolstoy
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin.
Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors.
Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Tiga Kurira, Mwana by Ngugi Wa Thiong...
Tiga Kūrīra, Mwana
Igürü rĩa maūndū mothe, Njoroge ni eriragiria gūthoma ta mūriű wa gītang'a kĩa ürīmi, Jakubu, üría warīkītie gūthoma gïthomo giothe gĩa Kenya, na rĩu arī athiï bürüri wa Ngeretha. Ithe wa Njoroge, Ngotho, arutaga wira kwa Bwana Howland, thükümü yaumïte Ngeretha, na o eri, na njira ciatiganīte, nĩ maiguaga wendo münene wa tīri mūnoru ürĩa marīmaga. Nakuo thukuru, Njoroge arī njorua ya gūthoma: gīthomo nikio kīarī bungūro ya műtūrīre wa hau kabere. Rīrĩa Jomo aikirio ngono na watho wa imanjenici ügītangathwo, gūtiagïire na ūgarürüku kïambīrīriainī andū othe nīmoĩ Jomo nĩ ekühootana. No müthenya ümwe Ngotho nĩ aikirio ngono na akīnyarirwo. Ariű a ithe na Njoroge nĩ mathamſire műcii műnene wa Nairobi, na angĩ magīthiĩ műtitű kūnyitanīra na itungati cia kűrűīra wīyathi. Thutha wa kahinda gataarī coho, andű othe a nyŭmba ya Ngotho nĩ magucītio mbarainî îrĩa yatuïkire gīcanjama kĩa műthenya o müthenya.
DUNIA RANGI RANGILE BY KARANJA S. MWANGI
NOVELA YA DUNIA RANGI RANGILE NI KAZI YA FASIHI YA AINA YA KIPEKEE AMBAYO IMEWEZA KUFANIKISHA DHANA KUU YA FASIHI KAMA KIOO CHA JAMII.WAHUSIKA WANAKUMBWA NA MASAIBU NA LICHA YA HAYO WANAJIPAMBANUA NA KUJICHONJOMOA.DUNIA RANGI RANGILE IMEJAA TAHARUKI, UCHESHI NA PIA MAJONZI .VILE VILE,IMESHEHENI MAUDHUI MUHIMU KAMA VILE FAMILIA,HAKI,UONGOZI NA SIASA.
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
It is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations, was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence. In his book, Smith fervently extolled the simple yet enlightened notion that individuals are fully capable of setting and regulating prices for their own goods and services. He argued passionately in favor of free trade, yet stood up for the little guy.
The Wealth of Nations provided the first--and still the most eloquent--integrated description of the workings of a market economy. The result of Smith’s efforts is a witty, highly readable work of genius filled with prescient theories that form the basis of a thriving capitalist system.
This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless and seminal work that revolutionized the way governments and individuals view the creation and dispersion of wealth--and that continues to influence our economy right up to the present day.