Back from Africa, Paperback

A picture-book biography about science superstar Neil deGrasse Tyson, the groundbreaking American astrophysicist whose work has inspired a generati...

Reducere. The bestselling classic set in South Africa during the apartheid era, in which two siblings must face the dangers of their divided country. Mma liv...

Reducere. Discover the life of Nelson Mandela-a story about uniting a country for kids ages 6 to 9 Nelson Mandela was the first Black president of South Afri...

Reducere. THE LEGENDARY JEWELS OF NABOOTI ARE MISSINGWILL FINDING THEM HELP WORLD PEACE? OR COULD IT KILL YOU? Two huge diamonds and two priceless rubies hav...

Reducere. Description"An important contribution to an issue with enormous potential for benefiting humanity." Stephen PinkerThe inside story of the fight for...

Reducere. If you're gonna run for your life, you gotta wear the right shoes.Pre-teen shoe model Riley Mae laces up her flaming orange Sole Fire running shoes...

DescriptionIstanbul, 1591: the mighty Sultan Murad III has been robbed The Staff of Moses, used at the parting of the Red Sea, has been stolen from...

Reducere. In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of ...

Reducere. If the idea of keeping bees and collecting their honey and other products for your personal or commercial use appeals to you, then this guide is ju...

From Africa to Australia to Asia and back again, Sunny the meerkat is on the hunt for the perfect Christmas in this flap-filled festive picture book.

Reducere. Ancient Africa holds a rich legacy of oral cultures, philosophies, and standards that reflect today's deep moral standards. For centuries, African ...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles River Editors*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Jumbo's life written by his trainer, P.T. Barnum, and contemp...

This Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented, both in Africa and beyo...

Reducere. From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second book, i see the rhythm, a uniquely v...

DescriptionA trip to Africa turns into an unusual kind of safari for our reporter friends. Spirou and Fantasio, during a daring night investigation...

Reducere. Have you ever been in a place in your life where darkness was all around you and the heavens felt like brass over you? Your prayers seemed to hit t...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The desert was quivering with heat. The gu...

DescriptionThere is a good reason why Uganda is called "the Pearl of Africa." Beyond the ideal climate, abundant wildlife, and spectacular natural ...

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruine...

Reducere. Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, ...

Reducere. This is an Award Winning book that won the Children's Africana Book Award as Best Children's Book for 2014. It isabout a little girl, Savita, who t...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

Hailed by Dan Agin in The Huffington Post as "fascinating...electrifying...an apocalyptic vision that puts a chill down one's back, " this provocat...

The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap an...

Reducere. The Akan are an African indigenous group found primarily in the southern parts of Ghana, as well as in Cote d'Ivoire and in Togo. This book explore...

Reducere. DescriptionExperience the phenomenon that has taken the world by storm: the adult coloring book craze.Now delve into that world with myths and lege...

Reducere. The winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still, " marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year, and it comes either on December 20t...

Reducere. Just in time for the major motion picture Dolittle starring Robert Downey Jr.--soaring into theaters on January 17, 2020 Journey into the world of ...

Reducere. David R. Slavitt, award-winning author of more than 100 books of poetry and prose, translates the work of Charles Marie RenE Leconte de Lisle, a Fr...

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the D...

Reducere. From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep, Yaya is constantly on the move. Everyone knows Yaya, and everyone calls out to him as he...

Reducere. Jake felt as though he had just been punched in the gut. He had hoped never to find himself in this position again, but here he was. It had been fi...

Reducere. Adversity. It touches every life and always leaves a mark. Whether through sickness, a broken marriage, a lost livelihood, a worldwide pandemic, or...

DescriptionThe plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The passive res...

Reducere. Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for FictionA Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2019 Honor title, Fiction"McFadden, writer of g...

Reducere. DescriptionSometimes a terrorist threat comes from the least expected place. Beyond the plains of the Serengeti, in the distant shadows of Kilimanj...

Reducere. From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a ta...

Reducere. Journalist-turned-amateur-sleuth Mimi Rosen is back with her fatherMax for another action-packed tale of murder and intrigue in NewYork City's Diam...

Reducere. A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault.On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million peop...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of ...

Reducere. Born in the former British colony of Rhodesia, Alice Chidzero has served as an educator, Bible teacher, inspirational speaker and missionary in sev...

Reducere. In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Can...

Reducere. Harry McCallion was a trained killer, fighting in the world's trouble spots with ruthless professionalism.Born 'a ragged-arsed kid from the backstr...

Description"Masterly" -- The New Yorker A Smithsonian Magazine Best History Book of the YearA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving histo...

Reducere. Having already pedalled 18, 000 miles from Britain to Beijing, Charlie Walker's homeward leg carried him a further 26, 000 miles through Central As...

Reducere. 'Surely you can sit on a seat for a few minutes without getting into conversation with a perfectly strange young man!'Julia smiled. 'It isn't as ea...

Reducere. Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with a completely revised edition of his classic, witty bestselling book on our ever-evolving cons...

Free-spirited black sheep, Taz Boran, has worked tirelessly as a nurse bringing efficient medical care to Africa for the past eight years. But when...

Robert Maoz Krzisnik knew from an early age that if his life was to be worth living, it was to be an adventure. Traumatized by childhood experience...

"A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." -George Saunders Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers...

Safari 101 is written for the hunter that has always considered Africa out of reach, someone who has a spark of desire just waiting to be fanned in...

Reducere. Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan ...

Reducere. Weaving dialogue, emotions, and introspection, Love Without Martinis shares the fears, joys, setbacks, and triumphs of couples as they find their w...

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

From the Australian Outback, where she meets a young Aboriginal man, to racist, rigidly segregated South Africa during World War II, to the midst o...

Reducere. In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban - fresh off the plane from Mers...

DescriptionHow rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empireInsurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were acti...

Reducere. "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I a...

Reducere. Full of humor and insight about sport and culture.... The pomp, glory, and great entertainment all get their due in Eight World Cups.--The Boston G...

Reducere. WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective hi...

Reducere. A mysterious woven metal artifact is found at a paleontological dig in Africa. Mystified experts, confounded by the impossible timeline they receiv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. GrumleyIt began in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of years ago. When a handful of genetic mutations caused evol...

Reducere. The true story of how an ERISA attorney transcended the confines of his corner office via a trip to the unknown. Travelling via a container ship, f...

Reducere. AD 439: The Roman Empire is on the brink of collapse. With terrifying speed a Vandal army has swept through the Roman provinces of Spain and North ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a teenage youth barely alive gets washed up on a British beach, it triggers British Intelligence to investigate. They discover he's...

Reducere. Anunnaki: False Gods extends Zecharia Sitchin's translations from clay tablets that underlie the Bible. Ten thousand years ago, scribes in ancient ...

"You know, you should edit an anthology about COVID-19. Capture the raw emotions and coping mechanisms of people from all over the world-while the ...

Reducere. In the 1780s, around 40, 000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious "Middle Passage, " to the Caribbean. In 1787, ...

Reducere. From WATER STREET PRESS In 1972, professional dancer Joan Wulfsohn underwent a double mastectomy. And her soon-to-be-ex-husband abducted their thre...