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Herstory Unleashed: Empowered Women E...
Herstory Unleashed is a recount of history lived in the actions and words of some very brave women who have used their freedom of speech to write and rally, to inspire and empower. These are not just any women but African women, melanated women, women whose voices still count as a minority, rising above the majority to put permanent prints in history. Minority my foot!
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, ...
In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?
Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance.
Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.
From Grass to Grace by Faleri Muthoni
From Grass to Grace is an inspiring story of resilience, hope, and determination told with vivid descriptive past experiences.
It is Faleri Muthoni's story of self-invention and survival, coupled with the unsparing intrigues of fate. Inspired by his single mum and the struggles they faced;
This story will leave you believing that nothing is cast in stone. Faleri hopes From Grass to Grace will be the needed nudge to get anyone out of their comfort zone and catapult dormant and undiscovered talents in order to pursue their dreams.
There is No Useless Experience by Lev...
Levi Kones tells a real and raw story of how he messed up his 20's, went to America and was deported, battled alcoholism, fought a mental disorder and later cancer and learnt the hard lessons on the value of people and use of money.
A brutally honest book that will send you on a roller coaster of emotions and give you lessons at the same time.
The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla ...
The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too).
On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father, and hopes that life will return to normal. But at home, things only grow stranger.
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. Richly descriptive and written with an imaginative hand and sharp eye for unusual detail, The House of Rust is a memorable novel by a thrilling new voice.
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Ad...
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure.
Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria.
In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book--a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever--and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.
1000 Kikuyu Proverbs by G Barra
Brief Summary
African love and traditions have over the years been kept alive through oral transmission from generation to generation.In 1000 Kikuyu Proverbs, each proverb is printed in Kikuyu, and then translated directly into English.
In most cases the English equivalents of these Kikuyu proverbs have been given, in bold letters.
This book will make very good readership and acts as an excellent source of material for Oral literature.
ISBN:B0000CKLPE
Author:G Barra
Its Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower.
When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one morning on the doorstep of her London flat, it was clear something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africa's few budding success stories.
John's tale is the story of how a brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramification
Baba Raila Amolo Odinga 72 Hours : Fr...
Sam Okello is an award-winning author. Also writing under the pen name Uncle Sam. He is the CEO of Sahel Publishing Association and a leading ghostwriter. Check out his works at the Nuria Bookstore, in Nairobi, Kenya or www.amazon.com
"One day I will not be there and you will have nobody to defend you. You will cry Raila Raila but I will be long gone." - Raila Amolo Odinga
Kitabu F2: Vita vya Migombani
Secret Superhero Wind Warrior finds herself in a battle with criminal mastermind Banana Baby, who wants to take over the world. Can Wind Warrior, with the help of her trusted partner, Engineer, stop Banana Baby? Or will Banana Baby win and take over the world?
This book is ideal for independent young readers between nine and eleven years of age or in Grade 6.
This story promotes empathy, responsibility, respect as key values and the CBC competencies of Critical Thinking and Problem solving.
Kitabu E2: Karamu ya Kushangaza
Jasiri, Zuri and Toto are very excited. Baba has promised them a big party. Zuri and Jasiri can’t wait to eat all the sweet treats, but Mama and Baba say this party is not about the food. Can there be a party without food and drink? What is Baba’s big surprise?
This book is ideal for confident young readers between eight and ten years of age or in Grade 5.
This story promotes Collaboration, Empathy and Respect as key values and the CBC competencies of Critical Thinking and Problem solving.
Woman Beneath her Feet & Other S...
This anthology is an amalgamation of contemporary and some universal well packaged in fictional narratives told by a group of Kenyan writers.
The herein are educative, entertaining, and thought- provoking, and intend to preserve the lived realities of this generation into posterity.
The compelling themes ranging from love, family, identity, and life pre- and post-pandemic among others are well thought out ideologies.
They are stories of young women and men grappling with their romantic relationships and unrequited love, sex and its outcomes , single parenthood, loss and grief, generational realities, work-life balance, religion, life choices, and the complexities of families among other riveting storylines.
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Going Down River Road by MEJA MWANGI
This was quickly followed by Carcase for Hounds (1974), which won the inaugural Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and was also adapted for the film "Cry Freedom". Since then, Meja has written many
novels, most of which are published in the Peak Library: Kill Me Quick (1973), Carcase for Hounds (1974), Going Down River Road (1976), Striving for the Wind (1990) and The Last Plague (2000), which won the 2001 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.
While continuing to write, Meja is still involved in film making. Ben is a man on the move-in bars, nightclubs, in the streets, in the brothels down River Road in Nairobi. It is on one of these occasions that he meets Winni and her son Baby. But Winni runs off with her white boss leaving her little son with Ben, and destroying his trust in women.
When Ben meets Ocholla at a construction site, action, humour and more people come into the picture. Mwangi's light-hearted treatment of serious situations makes an unforgettable impact. Rarely has anybody put so much understanding and empathy into character portrayal in a contemporary novel about our time and place. And our time and place is all this novel is all about!
The Quran With English Translation &#...
This is the now-familiar Saheeh International English translation of the Quran. New large hardback edition has 15-line Mushaf / Arabic text with English translation around it followed by footnotes in the footer. Sahih/Saheeh International checked many previous translations verse by verse against accepted Arabic tafseer and revised the wording accordingly in clear, contemporary English.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Brief Summary
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess.
But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.