Africa
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Your Passport to Egypt
$31.32 Add to cartWhat is it like to live in or visit Egypt? What makes Egypt’s culture unique? Explore the geography, traditions, and daily lives of Egyptian people.
- Series: World Passport
- Author: Golkar, Golriz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1663959269
- Language: English
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The Battle of Magersfontein: Victory and Defeat on the South African Veld, 10-12 December 1899
$49.95 Read moreMagersfontein is an iconic battle, fought during the South African War of 1899-1902, also known as the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Over 30 years of research informs this book, the first source referenced hi… [more below]
- Series: From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914
- Author: Benneyworth, Garth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1915113792
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness: And Selections from the Congo Diary
$12.00 Add to cartSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by- Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 037575377X
- Language: English
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Everything Good Will Come
$24.95 Read moreEverything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her Afr… [more below]
- Author: Atta, Sefi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1566565707
- Language: English
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Listen, Layla
$15.99 Read moreExploring the diaspora experience, race, politics, and identity, Listen, Layla is an own voices novel for young readers, bursting with passion, humor, and truth.
What’s a queen to do when her summer- Author: Abdel-Magied, Yassmin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1760896063
- Language: English
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Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book
$9.99 Add to cartA companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book
Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East Afri- Series: Picture Puffin Books
- Author: Feelings, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: July 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0140546529
- Language: English
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
$24.00 Add to cartBoth an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white Amer… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0452282101
- Language: English
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The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families
$12.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped a small African village become self-sustaining by planting a forest of mangrove trees to reshape the community’s ecosystem.
Now in paperback!
For a l
- Author: Roth, Susan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1620145804
- Language: English
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The Vanished (Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #2): Volume 2
$17.99 Read moreShuri, the Princess of Wakanda (and sister to the Black Panther), sets out to save a group of kidnapped girls in this all-new, original middle-grade novel by New York Times bestselling author Nic Ston… [more below]
- Author: Stone, Nic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1338587188
- Language: English
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Admiring Silence: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
$18.00 Read more**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**
A “corrosively funny and relentless” (The New York Times) tale of cultural identity and displacement, Admiring Silence is the story of a man’s d- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1526653451
- Language: English
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China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
$18.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-wi… [more below]- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946657
- Language: English
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The Soccer Fence: A Story of Friendship, Hope, and Apartheid in South Africa
$18.99 Read moreIn a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms.
As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the- Author: Bildner, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0399247904
- Language: English
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The Mystery of the Missing Lion
$7.99 Add to cartA detective in the wild.
Young Precious gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-li- Series: Precious Ramotswe Mystery for Young Readers #3
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0804173273
- Language: English
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Zambia Safari Guide: Luangwa Valley – Lower Zambezi – Victoria Falls
$29.99 Read moreFor over 25 years Bradt’s Zambia Safari Guide has been widely acknowledged as the best guidebook to this African country, and it is now the only dedicated guide to Zambia’s world-renowned safari desti
- Author: McIntyre, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1804690155
- Language: English
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Riambel
$17.99 Add to cartFifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family.
Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that- Author: Hein, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1911648497
- Language: English
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Dreaming in Color
$16.00 Read moreAn Own Voices story written by a Queer South African author, this coming-of-age/coming-of-queer story looks at navigating the confusion that is intimacy, sex, and identity.
In her debut novel, Dreamin- Author: Ximba, Uvile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717965
- Language: English
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Explore My World: Lions
$5.99 Read moreIn this charming picture book for pre-schoolers, curious kids will learn all about the wild world of lions–one of nature’s most fascinating and charismatic creatures.
Readers learn how lions communic- Series: Explore My World
- Author: Koster, Amy Sky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1426329881
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World
$34.95 Add to cartPast works have reinforced misconceptions about Africa, from its oral traditions and languages to its resistance to colonial powers. Other books have treated African achievements as a parade of honora
- Author: Pearce, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1633887707
- Language: English
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Mummies Made in Egypt
$9.99 Read moreAliki describes and illustrates the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt.
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Aliki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 25 1985
- ISBN10: 0064460118
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
