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  • Stone Breakers

    by Emmanuel Dongala ...
    THE STONE-BREAKERS, set in an imagined contemporary African country is a gripping novel told from a unique second person point-of-view of the uprising of a group of women stone crushers at a gravel pit, who rise up against their corporate bosses to demand higher wages for their labor--a gruelling process of break rocks down to gravel-size bits to be used as road surfacing for the expansion of the ... Read more

    $15.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bridgetower Sonata

    Sonata Mulattica

    by Emmanuel Dongala ...
    Translated by Marjolijn de Jager ...
    In this vividly imagined, richly detailed historical novel, acclaimed Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala has focused his laser-sharp wit and wry satirical perspective on the life and times of George Bridgetower, a young violin prodigy, who, at the age of nine, took the courtly world of 18th century Europe by storm—and surprise, given the youth's unusual origins: for young George was of mixed- race ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Boys Come From The Stars

    by Emmanuel Dongala ...
    The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial CongoHis nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caught in the crossfire of a chaotically liberated African country. Matapari grows up in a world of talking drums, the Internet, and satellite TV, a world ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Johnny Mad Dog

    A Novel

    by Emmanuel Dongala ...
    Life During Wartime, As Seen Through the Eyes of Two Congolese TeenagersSet amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking novel tells the story of two teenagers growing up while rival ethnic groups fight for control of their country.At age sixteen, Johnny is a member of the Death Dealers, a rebel faction bent on seizing power. Even as he is drawn into the rebels' program ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Imagine Africa

    Volume 3

    by Zanele Muholi, Abdourahmane Waberi, Emmanuel Dongala, Jean Senac ...
    Series Book 3 - Pirogue
    Through a collage of poems, essays, fiction, conversations, and visual art, Imagine Africa: Volume Three brings together some of the most essential writers, artists, and thinkers of contemporary Africa. Including powerful photographs in color by Zanele Muholi, stills from the films of Jean-Pierre Bekolo, and works of fiction and poetry from nine languages, Imagine Africa: Volume Three offers a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    A Novel

    by Thomas H. Cook ...
    This "beautifully written and elegantly plotted" thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author of The Chatham School Affair is "one of his best ever" ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).Twenty years ago, Ray Campbell was a well-intentioned aid worker dedicated to improving conditions in Lubanda, a newly independent African country. Now a cautious risk-management consultant, he is forced to reconsider ... Read more

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  • The Best Travel Writing 2010

    True Stories from Around the World

    by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly ...
    Series series Best Travel Writing
    The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. ... Read more

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  • The World, the Lizard and Me

    by Gil Courtemanche ...
    Claude Tremblay works as a political analyst at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But when the Congolese warlord Kabanga, accused of crimes against humanity, is released from trial due to a procedural error, Claude resigns his post and follows the accused back to his home country in search of justice. In The World, the Lizard, and Me, Gil Courtemanche writes a stirring and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates

    A Novel

    by Tom Robbins ...
    A “deranged and delightful concoction” (Fortune) about a CIA agent with uniquely peculiar proclivities, from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker“Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”—The San Diego Union-TribuneSwitters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Mountains Sing

    by Que Mai Phan Nguyen ...
    This “moving and riveting” book shares a layered, epic, multigenerational story of the Vietnam war and its aftermath (Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Sympathizer)With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner’s In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    by Stephen Hunter ...
    Series series Bob Lee Swagger Novel
    Master sniper Bob Lee Swagger protects a group of hostages during a perilous standoff in this razor-sharp, white-knuckled political thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times bestselling author, and “one of the best thriller novelists around” (The Washington Post) Stephen Hunter.After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes ... Read more

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  • Zoo City

    by Lauren Beukes ...
    A new edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them."Beukes's energetic noir phantasmagoria, the winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award, crackles with original ideas ... Beukes skillfully employs all the twists of first-rate noir." —Jeff VanderMeer, The New York ... Read more

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