Cultural Region/Southern Africa
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The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
$28.99 Read moreA “gripping and important” (The Guardian) account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s prot?g? by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transit… [more below]
- Author: Malala, Justice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982149736
- Language: English
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Innards: Stories
$27.95 Add to cartSet in Soweto, the urban heartbeat of South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday black folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive bewilderin
- Author: Makhene, Magogodi Oamphela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 6, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051000
- Language: English
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The Grass Is Singing
$17.99 Add to cart“There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel.” — New York Times
Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing’s first novel is at onc
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 16, 2008
- ISBN10: 0061673749
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Madagascar
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Madagascar is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Spot chameleons an
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Ham, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1788688406
- Language: English
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Going to the Mountain: Life Lessons from My Grandfather, Nelson Mandela
$28.00 Add to cartThe first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela’s life through the eyes of the grandson who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela’s life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders a… [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Ndaba
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 26, 2018
- ISBN10: 0316486574
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Botswana & Namibia
$28.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Botswana and Namibia is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Spot jacka
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Fitzpatrick, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 178701665X
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
$18.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave
William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land wi
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 27, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061730335
- Language: English
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The Power of One
$20.00 Add to cart“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.”
“Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what
-The New York Times- Author: Courtenay, Bryce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 29 1996
- ISBN10: 034541005X
- Language: English
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Master Harold and the Boys: A Play
$14.00 Add to cartA compelling drama of South African apartheid and a universal coming-of-age story, from “the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world” (Time).
Originally produced in 1982, “Master Haro- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Fugard, Athol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-09
- ISBN10: 0307475204
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
$27.00 Read moreThe final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0374610193
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition
$9.99 Add to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 0147510422
- Language: English
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Disgrace
$18.00 Add to cartThe provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee
“Compulsively readable… A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we’ve f- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140296409
- Language: English
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Cry, the Beloved Country
$19.00 Add to cart“The greatest novel to emerge out of the tragedy of South Africa, and one of the best novels of our time.” —The New Republic
“A beautiful novel…its writing is so fresh, its projection of character- Series: Oprah’s Classics Book Club Selections
- Author: Paton, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0743262174
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Picture Book Edition
$18.99 Add to cartWhen fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba’s Malawi village was hit by a drought, everyone’s crops began to fail. Without enough money for food, let alone school, William spent his days in the library …. [more below]
- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0803735111
- Language: English
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Power of the Sword
$17.99 Add to cartA Courtney series adventure – Book 2 in The Burning Shore sequence
A POWERFUL FAMILY. A DEVASTATING WAR. Centaine de Thiry Courtney has more than just survived the many challenges of her life. She t- Series: Courtney Series: The Burning Shore Sequence #2
- Author: Smith, Wilbur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 881
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1499860722
- Language: English
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Sound of Thunder
$18.99 Read moreA Courtney series adventure – Book 2 in the When the Lion Feeds trilogy
SOME WILL WIN. SOME WILL LOSE. As war is declared between the British Empire and the Transvaal Republic, a battle-hardened and- Series: Courtney Series: The When the Lion Feeds Trilogy #2
- Author: Smith, Wilbur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1499860080
- Language: English
