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      By McLain, Paula
       c2015., Adult, Bond Street Books Call No: Fic McL    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Brought to Kenya as a small child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised both by her father--a racehorse trainer--and the native Kipsigis tribe on her father's land. Her unconventional upbringing transforms her into a daring young woman, with a love of all things wild, but everything she knows and trusts dissolves when her father's farm goes bankrupt. Reeling from the scandal and heartbreak, Beryl is catapulted into a disastrous marriage at the age of 16. Finally she makes the courageous decision to break free, forging her own path as a horse trainer and shocking high society in the process. The British colony has never seen a woman as determined and fiery as Beryl. Before long, she catches the eye of the fascinating and bohemian Happy Valley set, including writer Karen Blixen and her lover Denys Finch Hatton, who will later be immortalized in Blixen's memoir, Out of Africa. The three become embroiled in a complex triangle that changes the course of Beryl's life, setting tragedy in motion while awakening her to her truest self and her fate: to fly.
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      By Rawlence, Ben
       2015., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: 967.7305 R258c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Combining intimate storytelling with investigative journalism, City of Thorns takes us inside Dadaab, the world's biggest and most notorious refugee camp, through the stories of the people who live there. To charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp, where over 350,000 refugees live, is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it's a nursery for terrorists ; to the western media, it's a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort. Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement, in the midst of the inhospitable desert of northeast Kenya where only thorn bushes grow, the Dadaab refugee complex was created at the start of the Somali civil war in 1991. Most of the refugees are from Somalia, others are from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Dadaab is a city like no other. Its buildings are made from mud and its citizens survive on rations and luck. Over the course of four years, Ben Rawlence became a first-hand witness to a strange and desperate limbo-land, getting to know many of the individuals who have sought sanctuary in the camp. Among them are Guled, a former child soldier who lives for soccer; Nisho, who scrapes together an existence by pushing a wheelbarrow and dreaming of riches; Tawane, the indomitable youth leader; and schoolgirl Kheyro, whose future hangs upon her education. With deep compassion and rare eloquence, Rawlence interweaves the stories of nine individuals to show what life is like in the camp and to sketch the wider political forces that keep the refugees trapped there. An urgent human story with profound international repercussions, brought to life through the people who call Dadaab home. Ben Rawlence is a former researcher for Human Rights Watch in the Horn of Africa"--Provided by publisher.
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      By Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo
       2014., Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: BLK Fic Owu   Edition: First Vintage Books edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--
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      By Elkins, Caroline
       2006, c2005., Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 967.62 E43i    Availability:1 of 1     At Your LibraryView publisher description Summary Note: Thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II, but just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyu--some one and a half million people. The story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met their deaths has remained largely untold, because of a determined effort by the British to destroy all official records of their attempts to stop the Mau Mau uprising, the Kikuyu people's ultimately successful bid for Kenyan independence--Publisher.