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  • WE NEED NEW NAMES. by Bulawayo, NoViolet.
    Bulawayo, NoViolet.
    WE NEED NEW NAMES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2013). SIGNED first edition - First novel by this young author who was born in Zimbabwe, a story of the resillience of children and of displacement and arrival in a new country - winner of the Los Angeles Times award for First Fiction and short-listed for the Man-Booker. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp plus a 2 pp conversation with author Justin Torres.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63926
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  • ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF STONE. by Dorris, Michael
    Dorris, Michael
    ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF STONE.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.

    Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. First edition - A small nonfiction work based on Dorris's travels to Zimbabwe to visit and report on Mozambican refugee camps and agricultural areas devasted by years of drought. A thoughtful and challenging work. 66 pp plus final map and about the author. ISBN: 0-915943-700.

    Condition: Near fine (a little light soiling, "406" written on the back cover.)

    Book ID: 10300
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  • ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF STONE. by Dorris, Michael
    Dorris, Michael
    ROOMS IN THE HOUSE OF STONE.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.

    Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993. SIGNED first edition - A small nonfiction work based on Dorris's travels to Zimbabwe to visit and report on Mozambican refugee camps and agricultural areas devasted by years of drought. A thoughtful and challenging work. SIGNED on the title page. 66 pp plus final map and about the author. ISBN: 0-915943-700.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated beige wrappers.

    Book ID: 62211
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  • A GIRL NAMED DISASTER. by Farmer, Nancy.
    Farmer, Nancy.
    A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.

    Edition: First UK paperback printing.

    London: Dolphin Paperback (Orion), (1996.). SIGNED - Newbery Honor-award winning book for older children and young adults. SIGNED on the title page. A marvelous book for all ages, the story of a young girl, eleven-year-old Nhamo who flees from her village and family when she is told she must marry a cruel older man with three wives. The two-day trip becomes nearly a year long struggle for survival, as she learns to escape drowning, starvation, the dangers of the forest and crocodile infested waters, and learns to cope with her aloneness, in part by coming close to the world of African spirits and the soft voice of her dead mother. National Book Award Finalist and 1997 Newbery Honor Book.…

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    London: Dolphin Paperback (Orion), (1996.). SIGNED - Newbery Honor-award winning book for older children and young adults. SIGNED on the title page. A marvelous book for all ages, the story of a young girl, eleven-year-old Nhamo who flees from her village and family when she is told she must marry a cruel older man with three wives. The two-day trip becomes nearly a year long struggle for survival, as she learns to escape drowning, starvation, the dangers of the forest and crocodile infested waters, and learns to cope with her aloneness, in part by coming close to the world of African spirits and the soft voice of her dead mother. National Book Award Finalist and 1997 Newbery Honor Book. Includes a glossary, a brief history of Zimbabwe and Mozambique (where the author lived for many years), and an explanation of the belief system of the Shona. 287 pp. ISBN: 185881622X.

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    Condition: Fine (as new.)

    Book ID: 47411
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  • A GIRL NAMED DISASTER. by Farmer, Nancy.
    Farmer, Nancy.
    A GIRL NAMED DISASTER.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Orchard Books - Scholastic, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Newbery Honor-award winning book for older children and young adults. SIGNED on the title page. A marvelous book for all ages, the story of a young girl, eleven-year-old Nhamo who flees from her village and family when she is told she must marry a cruel older man with three wives. The two-day trip becomes nearly a year long struggle for survival, as she learns to escape drowning, starvation, the dangers of the forest and crocodile infested waters, and learns to cope with her aloneness, in part by coming close to the world of African spirits and the soft voice of her dead mother. National Book Award Finalist and…

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    New York: Orchard Books - Scholastic, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Newbery Honor-award winning book for older children and young adults. SIGNED on the title page. A marvelous book for all ages, the story of a young girl, eleven-year-old Nhamo who flees from her village and family when she is told she must marry a cruel older man with three wives. The two-day trip becomes nearly a year long struggle for survival, as she learns to escape drowning, starvation, the dangers of the forest and crocodile infested waters, and learns to cope with her aloneness, in part by coming close to the world of African spirits and the soft voice of her dead mother. National Book Award Finalist and 1997 Newbery Honor Book. Includes a glossary, a brief history of Zimbabwe and Mozambique (where the author lived for many years), and an explanation of the belief system of the Shona. This edition includes a new preface by Farmer. Map. 309 pp. Cover art by Bryan Collier. ISBN: 0-439-471443.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 50729
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  • Linde, Paul R.
    OF SPIRITS AND MADNESS: An American Psychiatrist in Africa.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: McGraw-Hill, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on title page. The story of an emergency room psychiatrist who traveled to Zimbabwe to take the helm at a hospital there - a story of medicine at the crossroads of two cultures, where mental illness is often considered a sign of witchcraft or a contagious illness to be shunned. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-071367349.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 27158
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  • ZENZELE: A Letter for My Daughter. by Maraire, J. Nozipo.
    Maraire, J. Nozipo.
    ZENZELE: A Letter for My Daughter.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown, (1996). Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - a novel "written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, . . reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, Zenzele tells the tales of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence and the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele's father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy." Small format. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-517702428.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (crease to corner of rear endpaper)

    Book ID: 74547
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  • MY WAR - AND AFTER. by Richards, Jodi.
    Richards, Jodi.
    MY WAR - AND AFTER.

    Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback.

    London: Minerva Press, (1996). SIGNED - An account first of all of the author's work - at just 17 - as a volunteer social worker in charge of the evacuees at Pixton Park (the home of Auberon Waugh's grandmother) and also of her work on air radar with the WAAF, the devastation she saw in Germany after the war, and more. SIGNED with the words "with my best wishes" and also inscribed on the first blank page. Illustrated with photographs. 153 pp. ISBN: 1-85863587x.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 71081
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  • THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS. by Smith, Wilbur A.
    Smith, Wilbur A.
    THE LEOPARD HUNTS IN DARKNESS.

    Edition: Early printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. dj. Hardcover - Disillusioned and rudderless, a best-selling author of a book on Africa who fled Rhodesia at the end of the Bush War returns to his African homeland - now the country of Zimbabwe - and becomes caught up in violence and ivory poaching that is killing hundreds of elephants. 423 pp. ISBN: 0-385187378.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 85655
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  • RAINBOW'S END: A Memoir of Childhood, War, and an African Farm. by St. John, Lauren.
    St. John, Lauren.
    RAINBOW'S END: A Memoir of Childhood, War, and an African Farm.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York, NY: Scribner, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A lyrical, haunting story of family, love, and loss in a land as dangerous as it is beautiful." (Jeannette Walls) A story of growing up in war torn Rhodesia during the 1970s and early 1980s. Photographs. Glossary. 269 pp. ISBN: 978-0-743286794.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 55223
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  • NEHANDA. by Vera, Yvonne.
    Vera, Yvonne.
    NEHANDA.

    Edition: Reprint, a trade paperback.

    Toronto: TSAR Publications, (2007). Originally published in 1993, this is a novel set in the late nineteenth century in the author's native country of Zimbabwe, the story of ayoung woman has been given a divine calling, a portrait of resistance and struggle, a tale of a people's first meeting with colonialism. 98 pp. ISBN: 978-0920661413.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped).

    Book ID: 79618
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