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eBooks by Lieve Joris

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  • The Rebels' Hour

    by Lieve Joris ...
    Translated by Liz Waters ...
    "A compelling, blood-soaked portrait of a young Tutsi rebel who rose to become one of the leading generals in the Congolese Army." — DetailsLieve Joris has long been considered "one of the best journalists in the world" and in The Rebels' Hour she illuminates the dark heart of contemporary Congo through the prism of one lonely, complicated man—a rebel leader named Assani who becomes a high-ranking ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Machete Season

    The Killers in Rwanda Speak

    by Jean Hatzfeld, Susan Sontag ...
    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    A chilling and illuminating account of the Rwandan genocide, as told by the killers themselves.In Machete Season, veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on his interviews with nine Hutu killers who participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which 800,000 Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens—about 10,000 a day, mostly hacked to death by machete. The killers, all ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sycamore Row

    A Novel

    by John Grisham ...
    Series Book 2 - Jake Brigance
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.“Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today**Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Unfinished Child

    by Theresa Shea ...
    Marie finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at 39. Meanwhile, her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. In a genetic test routinely offered to older mothers, Marie discovers that the child she is carrying has Down syndrome. Intertwined throughout the novel is the story of Margaret, a woman who gave birth to a daughter with Down syndrome in ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Goldfinch

    A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    by Donna Tartt ...
    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Heart of Darkness

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    It's 1783 and wealthy Paul Déroulède has offended the young Vicomte de Marny by speaking disrespectfully of his latest infatuation, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had not intended to get into the quarrel but had a tendency to blunder into things - "no doubt a part of the inheritance bequeathed to him by his bourgeois ancestry."I Will Repay is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second ... Read more

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  • We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

    Stories from Rwanda

    by Philip Gourevitch ...
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm

    by Monte Reel ...
    In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab into the biggest scientific debate of the time: Darwin's theory of evolution. Quickly, Du Chaillu's ... Read more

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  • Africa's World War : Congo, The Rwandan Genocide, And The Making Of A Continental Catastrophe

    by Gerard Prunier ...
    The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. Prunier vividly describes the grisly aftermath of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ruined (TCG Edition)

    by Lynn Nottage ...
    Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play [is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports.”—Linda Winer, Newsday“An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world’s brutalities. Nottage is one of our finest ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • First Kill Your Family

    Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army

    by Peter Eichstaedt ...
    Told through the voices of those who have suffered, this illuminating exposé examines how a forgotten region of one of Africa's most promising nations—Uganda, dubbed "the pearl of Africa" by Winston Churchill—has been systematically destroyed by a bloody, senseless, and seemingly endless war that has gone largely unnoticed by the rest of the world. For the past 20 years, the Lord's Resistance Army ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rwanda Means the Universe

    A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines

    by Louise Mushikiwabo, Jack Kramer ...
    Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into butchering nearly a million of their neighbors.Years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD