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The Girl Was Mine


David Karanja
    

Aminata: A play (Plays for school series)


Francis Imbuga - 1988
    It stars Aminata as the main character with Jumba as her uncle who are the main antagonist and protagonist. It all talks about women emancipation and change in society due to modernisation.

Sowing the Mustard Seed


Yoweri Kaguta Museveni - 1997
    Museveni led a guerilla war to liberate his country from tyranny and, as President of Uganda, has established a reputation as one of the most widely respected African leaders of his generation.

Without a Silver Spoon


Eddie Iroh - 1991
    Ure comes from a poor but honest family, and works as a houseboy to pay his own school fees. Towards the end of his primary school days he is accused of stealing money. He is saved by the well-placed total trust of his parents and his teacher.

കാൻസർ വാർഡിലെ ചിരി | Cancer Wardile Chiri


Innocent V T - 2013
    Cancer Wardile Chiri depicts how he managed to escape from the clutches of this deadly disease with the help of medicine, mind power and ofcourse laughter.

Love Me When I'm Gone: The true story of life, love and loss for a Green Beret in post-9/11 war


Robert Patrick Lewis - 2012
    What holds this story above all others is the fact that this one is true.Rob had a pretty rough childhood: given up for adoption as an infant, brought into a family of highly decorated military men, suffering the loss of his mother to cancer, and his rebellion which landed him in military school. When he finally returns home he meets Cindy, who quickly becomes his best friend. After graduation the two go off to college at opposite ends of Texas, and their paths separate. Eight years later, when Rob returns home from SERE school and being a POW in the cold North Carolina woods, he wakes up one morning to discover that Cindy has contacted him on Myspace; he is very surprised, as he has been searching for Cindy for the past few years to no avail. The two reunite to spend his month of leave together, both knowing at the end he will be leaving for the illustrious 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), the elite Battalion of Green Berets stationed in Germany for quick-reaction missions around the globe. The two share a heart-felt goodbye at the airport, each hoping that somehow they can find a way to keep their love alive throughout whatever the future has in store for this newly crowned Green Beret.Rob’s time in Germany is a whirlwind; his first trip to Iraq, in which he encounters three distinct situations which will haunt him for the rest of his life, HAVE-ACE, the Special Operations school which he attends with his team and finally becomes one of them, Africa, where Rob learns many valuable lessons about life, and Afghanistan, where he and his team are tested in many life-or-death situations, including Operation Payback, where he and The Captain are wounded in a sustained firefight in the middle of a village.The culmination of the story is the quintessential fairy-tale ending; Rob moves back to California to spend the rest of his days, and the final chapter is the full military wedding, complete with his teammates as groomsman and sword bearers.

Across The Bridge


Mwangi Gicheru - 1979
    Now I was thinking of cars, bungalows, servants and whatever else Caroline missed by changing sides. But for a poor house-boy who has fallen in love with the beautiful daughter of his civil-servant master, the path to riches is not easy. In desperation Chuma moves from petty crime to a world of gangsters. It is only after much heartache on both sides that the two lovers are united.

i am a different mess than i was yesturday


Msizi E. Nkosi
    A spine-chilling story about a young man who could have had it all but threw it all away because of horrendous choices that take him to the gutter...

The Lost Lycan Luna


Jessica Hall
    Not that any fate could be much worse than how she was already living. Her parents slaughtered in front of her; she knew nothing but pain, and her best friend Abbie expected the worst when the Alpha Declared they would both be killed.Little did she know fate decided to intervene when the day her future was decided was the same day the Lycan king decided to visit. She finds herself spared by the Lycan King, who orders the Alpha to hand her over, desperate she begs for her friend and Abbie to is granted leniency, yet she isn’t free yet.King Kyson was the last remaining Royal, and he has taken a fancy to her and decided to take her as his personal slave. Unable to explain his strange obsession for the girl, King Kyson comes to one conclusion, Ivy is his mate. However, what happens when he finds out the secrets of her family’s past, why they were rogues, to begin with.Is the damage already done? Can he forgive her for what her parents did?Yet darkness is coming for both of them; the lies and secrets of the past start unraveling when rogue children start disappearing and the rebellion returns. He has no choice but to save her or die himself when the bonds sever.Love or vengeance sometimes the lines that are drawn become a little blurred, and temptation is too much. But will the King forget the pain of his past, and can Ivy forgive the pain he caused her?

Wizard of the Crow


Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - 2004
    His aim in Wizard of the Crow is, in his own words,nothing less than “to sum up Africa of the twentieth century in the context of two thousand years of world history.”Commencing in “our times” and set in the “Free Republic of Aburĩria,” the novel dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the Aburĩrian people. Among the contenders: His High Mighty Excellency; the eponymous Wizard, an avatar of folklore and wisdom; the corrupt Christian Ministry; and the nefarious Global Bank. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Wizard of the Crow reveals humanity in all its endlessly surprising complexity.Informed by richly enigmatic traditional African storytelling, Wizard of the Crow is a masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugl wa Thiong’o’s career thus far.

Church Mafia: Captured by Secret Powers : An Untold African Narrative


Makhado Sinthumule Ramabulana - 2019
    He explores themes of his life in the ministry, commercialisation of the gospel, lessons learnt from countries he travelled to in an effort to gain powers, and detail of the occult operation. After years of struggling to accomplish his mission of pastoring a mega church and impacting the world, he became frustrated, strayed from his true calling and fell into the trap of exploring secret powers hidden in the church today. He operated as General Khatha-Khatha within a counterfeit spiritual movement that operates under the banner of prophecy and instant miracles. This movement operates using secret powers to attract huge crowds, charges consultation fees, and promises people miracle money; leaders of this movement also perform false prophecies and staged miracles. After reading the Church Mafia, you will begin to understand that most operations in churches today are influenced by secret societies. This book will enable you to be enlightened and never to be fooled by any false doctrine practised in the church today. The main aim of the book is to make the Body of Christ at large aware of the secret operation that has captured so many churches today. It is hoped that after reading this book, your life will be enriched.

The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva


Kareena Kapoor - 2012
    In The Style Diary of a Bollywood Diva, the ultimate glamour girl lets you into her fabulous life. She reveals her best-kept secrets, tips, and tricks. Follow Kareena as she goes from being a chubby teenager accompanying her sister on shoots to transforming into the hottest leading lady on screen today.

Hlomu the Wife


Dudu Busani-Dube - 2020
    A young woman named Mahlomu meets Mqhele Zulu and they fall in love. Even though aspects of Mqhele's personality and past make her uncomfortable, Hlomu is happy. Their love is strong and they stand by each other through good and bad. But Mqhele and his seven brothers have a dark and tumultuous past that involves a dead warlord father, mob justice, and lots of unaccounted-for money. The Zulu brothers are rich, handsome, powerful and dangerous. They eventually become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in Johannesburg - but the inherent danger remains.

The Sea is My Brother


Jack Kerouac - 2011
    First publication for Kerouac's 'lost novel.

समांतर [Samantar]


Suhas Shirvalkar
    The story keeps us guessing about the details until the last page and is a pacy read.