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Days Come and Go

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Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Anna’s thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mother’s eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist ... Read more

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Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Anna’s thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mother’s eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist
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The Fisherman’s Dream

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**A sweeping, emotionally resonant, multigenerational novel from award-winning Cameroonian author Hemley Boum, tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homeland. **“Boum is a magnificent storyteller.”—Le MondeWinner of the Grand Prix Afrique 2025 and the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2025, The Fisherman’s Dream is a brilliantly ... Read more

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**A sweeping, emotionally resonant, multigenerational novel from award-winning Cameroonian author Hemley Boum, tracing the fate of a family divided by migration, memory, and the violent reshaping of their homeland. **“Boum is a magnificent storyteller.”—Le MondeWinner of the Grand Prix Afrique 2025 and the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2025, The Fisherman’s Dream is a brilliantly
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Notes on Grief

A Memoir

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**From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of ... Read more

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**From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of
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Indonesian Slang

Colloquial Indonesian at Work

by Christopher Torchia, Lely Djuhari ...

Cekidot, gan!—"Check it out, Boss!"Kamu Dodol—"You're a coconut fudge!" (You're slow on the uptake)This book is an informal compendium of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms.The unique aspects of the Indonesian language offer one of the best windows into Indonesian culture. Slang, titles, proverbs, nicknames, acronyms, quotations and other expressions reveal ... Read more

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Cekidot, gan!—"Check it out, Boss!"Kamu Dodol—"You're a coconut fudge!" (You're slow on the uptake)This book is an informal compendium of Indonesian expressions, including proverbs, slang, quotations and acronyms.The unique aspects of the Indonesian language offer one of the best windows into Indonesian culture. Slang, titles, proverbs, nicknames, acronyms, quotations and other expressions reveal
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Discretion

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"A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist." — EssenceDutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his bed. And yet there is a deeper, buried passion within him that will lead him to question which ... Read more

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"A captivating tale of Oufoula Sindede, an African diplomat in a passionless marriage who falls madly in love with Marguerite, a New York City artist." — EssenceDutifully married to lovely Nerida, Oufoula goes through the motions, formally keeping his distance from the woman with whom he shares his bed. And yet there is a deeper, buried passion within him that will lead him to question which
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My Friend the Fanatic

Travels with a Radical Islamist

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A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from ... Read more

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A nation once synonymous with tolerance, Indonesia, the fourth-most populated country in the world and its most populous Muslim country, now finds itself in the midst of a profound shift toward radical Islam. Sadanand Dhume, a Princeton-educated Indian atheist with a fondness for literary fiction and an interest in economic development, travels across Indonesia to find out how a society goes from
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Brotherhood

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The Senegalese author's prize-winning novel explores brutality and resistance in a fictional North African city gripped by a fundamentalist regime.Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share.Spurred by The Brotherhood's ... Read more

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The Senegalese author's prize-winning novel explores brutality and resistance in a fictional North African city gripped by a fundamentalist regime.Under the regime of the so-called Brotherhood, two young people are publicly executed for having loved each other. In response, their mothers begin a secret correspondence, their only outlet for the grief they share.Spurred by The Brotherhood's
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Whispers of Hope

Rising From The Darkness

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The difficulties we often experience transforms us into special types of heroes. We don't believe nor deny the hardships we endured and continue to endure afterwards, it just becomes a certain type of sweet struggles to us. They become whispers of hope telling us to rise from the darkness. ... Read more

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The difficulties we often experience transforms us into special types of heroes. We don't believe nor deny the hardships we endured and continue to endure afterwards, it just becomes a certain type of sweet struggles to us. They become whispers of hope telling us to rise from the darkness.
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Gods and Soldiers

The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing

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A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literatureComing at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means ... Read more

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A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literatureComing at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means
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Tears of a First Generation Muslim

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My experience as the first Muslim in my family. Thank God I found Islam before I found the Muslim. Follow my journey of trying to understanding the Creator and His creation. ... Read more

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My experience as the first Muslim in my family. Thank God I found Islam before I found the Muslim. Follow my journey of trying to understanding the Creator and His creation.
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World Hunger is one mans hunger which precipitates a world hunger. The hunger for freedom in World Hunger, though individual and isolated, is universal. It is a hunger to go to The United States, understand its peoples and culture, and to eventually become one among the Free and the Proud. It is a dormant dream which is ignited by the Nigerian Military oppression and marginalization of the ... Read more

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World Hunger is one mans hunger which precipitates a world hunger. The hunger for freedom in World Hunger, though individual and isolated, is universal. It is a hunger to go to The United States, understand its peoples and culture, and to eventually become one among the Free and the Proud. It is a dormant dream which is ignited by the Nigerian Military oppression and marginalization of the
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The Road to Ramadan

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A young man of color, from Britain, journeys through West Africa in search of his identity. After many adventures he meets a young Ghanaian, who teaches him about Islam. Meeting his family he goes to live with his extended family in Kumasi and learns about the true values of the Moslem faith and his place in the world. ... Read more

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A young man of color, from Britain, journeys through West Africa in search of his identity. After many adventures he meets a young Ghanaian, who teaches him about Islam. Meeting his family he goes to live with his extended family in Kumasi and learns about the true values of the Moslem faith and his place in the world.
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