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Daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah is already notorious even among Paris society. Her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch, and as a result Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until the gossip subsides. The house is a sun-bleached skeleton of a faded dream in a decadent world full of expats. Then she meets Ryder White, her guide to the complex beauty of African wildlife...
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2019.
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English
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Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
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"Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs....
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Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2005
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mama Panya has just enough money to buy ingredients for a few pancakes, so when her son Adika invites all their friends to join them, she is sure there will not be enough to go around. With facts about Kenya and Kiswahili.
6) White bone
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"John Knox and Grace Chu, the incomparable duo of the Risk Agent novels, team up again in the latest international thrill ride from New York Times-bestselling author Ridley Pearson. When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the threat, and then attempt to retrace...
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"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
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Jade del Cameron novels volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron is about to embark on safari for a Hollywood film. But when the film's financial backer is stabbed to death, the trip is cast under a sinister pall. Now, Jade will be tested as never before.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama Panya ever feed them all? This clever and heartwarming story about Kenyan village life teaches the importance of sharing, even when you have little to give.
11) Crocodile tears
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Alex Rider adventures volume 8
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
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"Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn't occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm...
13) Sulwe
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
18) Endangered
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Sable Dunsmoor returns to Africa to help her widowed father and join her fianc�e's archeological dig. The dangers ofKenya's civil war and the wildlife poachers force Sable to turn to the mysterious adventurer, Kash Hallet, for help. Now Sable is not sure about God's will in her life, her future marriage, or what is happening to her father.
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 6
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.
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