kenya

"Young readers will follow a day in the life, from wake-up to bedtime, of a young person from Kenya"--Publisher.

Describes the lives of the baby hippopotamus named Owen and a one-hundred-thirty year old tortoise named Mzee, and how they came became friends after Owen was rescued from the 2004 tsunami in Kenya, and was placed in Mzee's enclosure in Haller Park.

Tells the story of environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.

Part travelogue and part memoir, Adharanand Finn travels to the elite training camps of Kenya on a quest to uncover the secrets of the world's greatest runners.

Sets two illicit love affairs--between an Englishman and an Indian Muslim, and between their divorced granddaughter and a young Zanzibari--against the backdrop of colonial Zanzibar in 1899 and in the 1950s, just before independence.

Jade del Cameron sets off for Africa determined to forget the horrors of World War I and fulfill a man's dying wish, and is forced to draw upon all her ingenuity and courage to find a killer and live to complete her mission.

Meet Hickey, an American school teacher in his late thirties, an American school teacher who burns his bridges with the school board and goes to Africa as an aid worker. Working for an agency in Nairobi, one of his jobs is to drive food and medical supplies to Southern Sudan to an aid station run by Ruth, a middle-aged woman, who acts as nurse, doctor, hospice worker, feeder of starving children, and witness. Ruth is gruff but efficient, and Hickey, who is usually drawn to youth and beauty, is struck by her devotion. Returning to Nairobi, he can$1 (Bt forget what he has seen. When the violence and chaos in the region increase to a fever pitch and aid workers are being slaughtered or evacuated, Hickey is asked to save Ruth overland by Jeep. What happens to them and the children that have joined their journey is the searing climax of this novel. Hoagland paints an unflinching portrait of a living hell at its worst, and yet amid that suffering there is hope in the form of humility, sacrifice, and life-affirming friendship.

Huxley recalls her childhood on a small farm in Kenya; growing up among the Masai and Kikuyu peoples and enduring the rugged pioneer life.

A tale set against the backdrop of Kenya's poverty-stricken slums and luxury resorts follows the experiences of a young drug runner who makes deliveries to a reclusive artist before his witness of murder leads to his adoption by a woman who tests his sense of morality.

Explores the events that caused current Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's aide John Githongo to expose the corruption in their government, and the aftermath of his whistle-blowing, including the riots that occurred in 2007 after Kibaki was sworn in for a second term.