Mengiste, Maaza.
Summary: The story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENWaugh, Evelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUHerrera, Adriana
Summary: "As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life -- his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation lands him there for twelve weeks, he may finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adriana Herrera 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERSummary: Perseus goes on a quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CLAHopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)
Summary: "Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOPAdefris, Fasika
Summary: Follows how a Gabi is made in Ethiopia from seed to harvest, to weaving to shop, to gift for Girma.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ADESummary: A dwarfish scrapdealer named Gagano, mystically inclined yet equally terrified, has grown tired collecting the priceless crumbs of decayed civilization, including the most valuable of these: Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan merchandise. When a spaceship that has been hovering high in the sky for years starts showing signs of activity, Gagano has to overcome his fears--as well as a witch,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRUCaputo, Philip.
Summary: Gage, Colfax, and Nordstrand smuggle arms into the Horn of Africa to train a rebellious Moslem tribe. In this harsh land Colfax abandons the others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1980
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAPFraser, George MacDonald
Summary: The twelfth book in the Flashman Papers series finds the reluctant hero and cad Sir Harry Flashman embarking on a secret mission to free a group of Britons from captivity by a tyrannical Abyssinian king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAGibb, Camilla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBMengiste, Maaza
Summary: "A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MENDeMille, Nelson.
Summary: From the locked archives of the Vatican to the overgrown jungles of Ethiopia, an unlikely trio begins a deadly search for the Holy Grail. Two journalists and a beautiful photographer are traveling together in a broken down Jeep while covering the 1975 Ethiopian civil war. Both men fall in love with the woman and that complicates things.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEMVerghese, A. (Abraham)
Summary: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, they are bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine. Marion flees his homeland fresh out of medical school when he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VERDeMille, Nelson
Summary: After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEMDekker, Ted
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Publisher / Publication Date: WestBow Press 2006
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Summary: Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: FIC KURHeywood, Claire
Summary: "Nationally bestselling author of Daughters of Sparta Claire Heywood returns with an imaginative and female-centered reinterpretation of the myth of the great hero Perseus, told through the voices of three women who are sidelined in the traditional version - his mother Danae, his trophy Medusa, and his wife Andromeda - but whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYDue, Tananarive
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2001
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Summary: The follow-up to The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1887. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2010
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Summary: Waking up in a futuristic Mumbai with five snake bites, Meena is compelled to return to her native Ethiopia by way of a forbidden path spanning the Arabian Sea; while a girl from a different time, Mariama, flees a traumatic experience to Ethiopia in search of a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014