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"Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence." -Entertainment Weekly (A)
The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country
As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of...
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The sequel to the international bestselling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her wealth, unhappy with her professional life. Julia is lost and exhausted.
One day, in the middle of an...
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Criterion collection volume 1091
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"A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country."--www.imdb.com.
6) Ezra
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Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 Festival Panafricain du Cinema de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa's largest and most prestigious film event, and was selected for the International Critics Week at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Ezra stands out among other African films because it is a complex...
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From the small coastal town of Senjan a young woman seeks vengeance for her lost family, and from the wealthy city-state of Seressa come two very different people: a young artist travelling to paint the grand khalif at his request, and a fiercely intelligent and angry woman, posing as a doctor's wife, but secretly sent by Seressa as a spy. Further east a boy is training to become a soldier in the infantry of the khalif. As these lives entwine, their...
9) Blood Scion
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Fifteen-year-old Sloane is a Scion, a descendant of the ancient Orisha gods. Her mother knew under the rule of the Lucis, Sloane's identity means her death so she tries to hide Sloane's truth. On her fifteenth birthday, Sloane is conscripted into the Lucis army, and she must not only hide her power, but overcome the challenges of Lucis training. But if she can infiltrate the Lucis, she could crush her enemies. Sloane climbs through the ranks and acquires...
10) Ender's game
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Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
14) The boundless
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Beholder volume 2
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When Selah found true love with Prince Torden of Norway, she never imagined she d have to leave him behind banished from his court as a traitor and a spy. Her Imperiya s shadow looms over the ship s next port: Shvartsval d, a place Selah hoped she would never have to go.
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A gripping story of a child's journey through hell and back. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, now twenty-six, tells a riveting story of his childhood as a boy soilder and his struggle to find his own humanity after being removed from the fighting. This is a story of redemption and hope, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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