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2009., Macmillan Call No: Fic Smi Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: ADVENTURE / THRILLER. It is 1913 and ex-soldier turned professional big game hunter, Leon Courtney, is in British East Africa guiding rich and powerful men from America and Europe on safaris in the Masai tribe territories. One of his clients, German industrialist Count Otto Von Meerbach, has a company which builds aircraft and vehicles for the Kaiser's burgeoning army. But Leon had not bargained for falling passionately in love with Eva, the Count's beautiful and enigmatic mistress. Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, Leon is recruited by his uncle, Penrod Ballantyne, Commander of the British Forces in East Africa, to gather information from Von Meerbach. He stumbles on a plot against the British involving the disenchanted survivors of the Boer War, but it is only when Eva and Von Meerbach return to Africa that Leon finds out who and what is really behind the conspiracy.
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2003., HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: Fic Dan Edition: 1st Canadian edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2003., Ecco Call No: Fic DeS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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2021., Adult, Esplanade Books Call No: QWF BLK Fic Eva Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this sweeping, allusive novel, the celebrated poet, dervish, and oral storyteller Tawhida Tanya Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one's own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco. As a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates, she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape.
![Cause céleb' [FR] : roman](/Library/images/~imageCT68888.JPG "Cause céleb' [FR] : roman")
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By Villiers, MD2013., Harvill Secker Call No: Fic Vil Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Siphiwe, a nineteen year old orphan dreaming of a better life for himself and his adoptive family, is haunted by memories of the brutal murder of his elder brother. When a woman is stabbed on the street in front of him, Siphiwe rushes to her aid, desperate to stop history repeating itself, but in doing so unwittingly crosses the paths of two very dangerous men.
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2017., Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd. Call No: QWF BLK Fic Awu Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns, burns the skin, burns the brain, burns the retina of those forced to look at it without blinking. A country where another sun blazes: a dictator in the grips of fear. Is magic not the most dangerous form of subversion? Ito makes the acquaintance of blind Koli Lem. In the middle of the blackest night, in the words they share, in their very flesh, they become each other's sole source of light."--
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-- District Nine.c2009., Adult, 112, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic District Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Twenty years ago, aliens from another planet made contact with Earth. Now, the refugee camp they are forced to live in has deteriorated into a slum-like ghetto. When field operative Wikus van der Merwe is put in charge of evicting the aliens, he contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA to match that of the refugees. As his body begins to mutate, he becomes a hunted man, and the aliens' only hope for freedom.
![District 9 [DVD] (2009). Directed by Neill Blomkamp](/Library/images/~imageCT102299.JPG "District 9 [DVD] (2009). Directed by Neill Blomkamp")
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2011., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Fic Str Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jack Viljee's hometown of Johannesburg is still divided by apartheid, though the old order is starting to crumble. According to eleven-year-old Jack, the world is a rational and simple place. But if life doesn't conform to Jack{8217}s expectations, there is always the sympathy and approval of the familys maid to console him. Not that Susie is a pushover. She believes violence, of the nondisfiguring variety, is a healthy form of affection{8212}hence her not infrequent expression Jack, I love you so much. I will hit you. Jack himself is not above socking his best friend in the eye or scamming his little sister into picking up the dog mess. The Viljee household, in its small way, mirrors the politics of the country.
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2009., Henry Holt and Company Call No: Fic Pat Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view Summary Note: The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
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2008., New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton Call No: Fic Man Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alcoholism and a friend's accident.
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2022., Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada Call No: BLK Fic Bul Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "This novel follows the unexpected fall of Old Horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected ouster by coup in November 2017 of Robert G. Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president of nearly four decades, this novel shows a country's imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices that unveil the ruthlessness required to uphold the illusion of absolute power and the imagination and bulletproof optimism to overthrow it completely. By immersing readers in the daily lives of a population in upheaval, Bulawayo reveals the dazzling life force and irrepressible wit that lie barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. At the center of this tumult is Destiny, a young goat who returns to Jidada to bear witness to revolution--and to recount the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the females who have quietly pulled the strings. The animal kingdom--its connection to our primal responses and resonance in the mythology, folktales, and fairy tales that define cultures the world over--unmasks the surreality of contemporary global politics to help us understand our world more clearly, even as Bulwayo plucks us right out of it. Although Zimbabwe is the immediate inspiration for this thrilling story, this novel was written in a time of global clamor, with resistance movements across the world challenging different forms of oppression. Thus it often feels like Bulawayo captures several places in one blockbuster allegory, crystallizing a turning point in history with the texture and nuance that only the greatest fiction can."--
