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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Conquest of the Sahara Douglas Porch Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks In The Conquest of the Sahara, Douglas Porch tells the story of France's struggle to explore and dominate the great African desert at the turn of the century....

Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Blue Clay People Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge William Powers Bloomsbury USA “A haunting account of one man’s determination and the struggles of a people living in a deeply troubled country.”—Booklist When William Powers went to...

Trade Paperback : $21.00 Buy	Islam's Black Slaves The Other Black Diaspora Ronald Segal Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the...

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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda

Stassen, illustrated by the author First Second

The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the...

American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens

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The Unheard

A Memoir of Deafness and Africa

Josh Swiller Holt Paperbacks

A young man’s quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and...

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Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	Faith at War A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu Yaroslav Trofimov Picador "This book deserves a wide readership. The Muslims don't understand us, we don't understand them. Faith at War goes a long way toward solving the second part of that dismal equation."—Philip Caputo, The New York Times Book Review

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Butterfly Burning

A Novel

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"A remarkable novel . . . Keen, vivid. The author's political sense, her critique of colonialism, is intrinsic, never intrusive . . . Vera writes gracefully, depicting with extraordinary elegance the chaos and disorder of township life, the surreal conditions of existence imposed by colonial authority upon the residents."—Michelle Cliff, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Vera's style is beautifully matched with the content, and magnificently promotes its central theme that language has both the power to heal and to accrete and to allow those who have once been victims to transform themselves and their future."—Judges' Citation, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Africa Region (Under the Tongue)

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The Stone Virgins

A Novel

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Vera brings to this novel her extraordinary gift of sidelong and oblique entry into the heart of things using the total environment—trees, sky, rivers, rocks, and mountains are themselves characters—to express human emotion. Her treatment of love is unusual and strikingly original, bringing out its redemptive power which triumphs over the horrors of war and human cruelty."—Eldred D. Jones, Editor, African Literature Today

Trade Paperback : $26.00 Buy	A Portrait of Egypt A Journey Through the World of Militant Islam Mary Anne Weaver Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks For centuries Egypt has been a citadel of Islamic learning and thought, and since the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979, it has been of...