Tag Archives: Africa

Running the Rift

January 18, 2012 – 5:03 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Consider this one for your book club. It’s about a Tutsi boy, Jean Patrick, whose dream it is to run track in the Olympics. We follow him and his family during the 10 years that lead up to the genocidal war in Rwanda. Well researched, well written. Book Author: Naomi Benaron This [...]

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State of Wonder

July 10, 2011 – 5:26 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Tarantulas and Anacondas and cannibals -oh my! A great big adventure of a read.  A lost luggage nightmare!  5 stars ***** Book Author: Ann Patchett This post was submitted by helen.

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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency On HBO

March 24, 2009 – 3:53 pm

Alexander McCall Smith fans (visit his website…it’s fantastic), stay tuned.  This Sunday night, March 29th, HBO will begin airing the very popular The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency .  For those of you unfamiliar with these warm hearted whodunits, Detective Agency is a series of nine novels (#10 due out in April -Tea Time For [...]

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What is the What

January 8, 2009 – 5:49 pm

I might not have read this except for the fact that it was selected by my book group. It is billed as a fictionalized autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan. How these boys survived their way across their war torn country with no food and little water and avoided [...]

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“Say You’re One of Them”

June 11, 2008 – 11:51 am

Wow! That is the headline posted by Nora Rawlinson in yesterday’s Give’em What They Want (see below) to describe Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them. She adds, “I won’t waste your time with a synopsis; read the review, order more copies, and put it in the hands of as many readers as possible.” Rawlinson, [...]

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