The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories

Reducere. Newbery Medal"The stories of West Africa are about men and animals, about kings, warriors, and hunters. They tell about clever people and stupid pe...

Reducere. Foods of Sierra Leone and other West African countries is a unique cookbook focusing on West African foods many of which have a global appeal. It i...

Reducere. "My God, where did you learn to handle cows like that, Doc?" Jack gasped as I hauled my OB bag and bucket over the fence."It just comes from growin...

Publisher: Salariya Book Company LtdAuthor(s): John TownsendIllustration(s): 24 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 96Collection: Animal Sto...

Reducere. DescriptionVisit an American West that never was, but could have been. A woman in search of her fate, a people looking for a new place to call home...

"Dynamic and thought-provoking." -- KIRKUS Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a human so he coul...

Reducere. "For a quarter of a century, Five Star Publishing, an imprint of Gale/Cengage, has offered readers the best in new voices, as well as many beloved ...

Turn that ugly flab into rock-hard abs with this one sardonic debut novel! (Doctors hate this.)Publisher: And Other StoriesAuthor(s): Adrian Nathan...

Publisher: Cassava Republic PressNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 216 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Anw...

Reducere. In the Hunter Kingdom of the Breodani, the golden-eyed son of Bredan is born to the Lord and Lady of Maubreche. In their lands, at the heart of the...

Land Without Thunder is Grace Ogot's first collection of short stories. Her live feeling for the macabre and the fatalistic is reminiscent of the t...

Reducere. This humorous, educational, and beautifully illustrated collection of poetry by Jenna Feitelberg includes the following poems: The PuppyMonster in ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth Ann Musick" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hund...

West and North African Cooking.Get your copy of the best and most unique African recipes from BookSumo Press Come take a journey with us into the d...

Publisher: Prince ClassicsAuthor(s): Leo TolstoyNumber of pages: 358Collection: Prince ClassicsPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 146 x 222 x 30Cove...

Reducere. Curated by renowned London-based curator, Mark Sealy MBE, the FotoFest Biennial 2020, African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other brings ...

Reducere. A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcend...

Reducere. DescriptionThe autobiographical story of Switch, an R&B/funk band that found fame recording for the Gordy label of Motown in the late 1970s, releas...

Reducere. Ghanaian cuisine is in a class on its own. The herbs and spices used in the dishes of this West African country and its neighbors add unique and po...

Reducere. Did you know that most Western lawmen were criminals themselves?Many of the most well-known lawmen of the American Wild West had multiple criminal ...

A whirling library of ghost story, funny story, love story, scary story, and more. Like Russian dolls, separate yet invisibly linked, they unfold f...

Reducere. Spanning a wide geographical range, this collection features many of the now prominent first generation of African writers and draws attention to a...

Reducere. African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of theAmericas. An...

Reducere. "Penkov's teeming stories accomplish in phrases what lesser writers take chapters to convey. . . . A collection of triumphs." --Susan Salter Reynol...

Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region and this is the first detailed study ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

The first man and woman are lonely. What to do? They decide to fashion children out of clay. As they are baking the little figures in their fire, t...

Reducere. Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar narratives, providing, perhaps, yet another example of the universal brothe...

Reducere. Can the legendary trickster be out-tricked?All the young men had gathered in the village courtyard to hear the Chief's pronouncement: Whoever guess...

Canyon Crime Sceneby Carol Ericson His sister is missing and only one person can helpPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Karen WhiddonNum...

Description"Whole eons of love will be necessary to recompense the animals for their services to us." With this quote from Christian Morgenstern, l...

Publisher: Wood Green The Animals CharityAuthor(s): John GayeNumber of pages: 191Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 197 x 132 x 17Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding pover...