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"Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course--Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Eighth-grader Hannah Carlisle feels unattractive compared to her movie star parents and cliquish Beverly Hills classmates, and when her mother's cancer worsens and her father starts drinking heavily, Hannah's grief and anger turn into bulimia, which only her aunt, a documentary filmmaker, understands.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
6) Solo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
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Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When they are given the seemingly impossible task of turning thread into gold, the seven Ashanti brothers put aside their differences, learn to get along, and embody the principles of Kwanzaa. Includes information on Kwanzaa, West African cloth weaving, and instructions for making a belt.
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss's asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi was just months shy of graduating high school when she became secretive and withdrawn. Suddenly, all she wanted to do was be with her handsome new beau, Femi, instead of attending law school in the fall. So when she disappears from her parents' house in Nigeria the middle of a summer night,...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women-two of them haunted by a shared tragedy-whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways
When Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hopes that one day she'll return home to open a beauty parlor. Her dream comes true, though not before she suffers a devastating loss-one that will haunt her for years, and one that also deeply affects Janice, an...
11) Ghana must go
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Introducing a powerful new novelist whose evocation of an unforgettable African family is testament to the transformative power of unconditional love Kwaku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside the home he shares in Ghana with his second wife. The news of Kwaku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before. Ghana Must Go is their story. Electric, exhilarating,...
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Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Darko Dawson has just been promoted to Chief Inspector in the Ghana Police Service--the promotion even comes with a (rather modest) salary bump. But he doesn't have long to celebrate, because his new boss is transferring him from Accra, Ghana's capital,out to remote Obuasi, in the Ashanti region, an area now notorious for the illegal exploitation of its gold mines. The assignment will last at least a year, meaning Dawson has the unpleasant choice...
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Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"At Cape Three Points on the beautiful Ghanaian coast, a canoe washes up at an oil rig site. The two bodies in the canoe--who turn out to be a prominent, wealthy, middle-aged married couple--have obviously been murdered; the way Mr. Smith-Aidoo has been gruesomely decapitated suggests the killer was trying to send a specific message--but what, and to whom, is a mystery. The Smith-Aidoos, pillars in their community, are mourned by everyone, but especially...
14) Wife of the gods
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English
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An original debut novel set in Ghana, is the story of Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, who is sent from the big city to the village of Ketanu to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. Darko's own mother disappeared from this same village many years ago, and as the mystery unfolds, the reader meets a rich cast of characters, and learns about Trokosi, a system where young teenage girls are sent to live with fetish priests to bring good...
Author
Series
Inspector Darko Dawson mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Nena Knight novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As Nena embarks on a new mission, a violent siege by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos, and mysterious acts of violence plague the Tribe's territories. As the attacks escalate, Nena suspects a different kind of enemy at play: someone on the inside, determined to undermine the Tribe's leaders"--
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Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Crumble assigns each student to bring a different ingredient so the class can bake a Super-Duper Round the World Chocolate Cake. When Josh forgets his ingredients at home, his magic backpack saves the day by flying Josh to Uncle William's cocoa plantation in Ghana.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"In this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate urgency. He cannot take one step further without examining all the extraordinary events that he has seen. A lifetime of war and world travel--as a soldier in World War II, an engineer,...
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Series
Publisher
Longman
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
These two witty and perceptive social dramas are sympathetic and honest explorations of the conflicts between the individualism of westernized culture and the social traditions of Africa
Dilemma of a Ghost. When Ato returns to Ghana from his studies in North America he brings with him a sophisticated black American wife. But their hopes of a happy marriage and of combining the "sweetness and loveliest things in Africa and America" are soon shown...