Paris, Harper
Summary: "Twins Ethan and Ella are in the Maasai Mara in Kenya, and there's another mystery to solve. Where are all the lions? Ethan and Ella spot lots of cool animals, but the one they're most excited about, they can't seem to find"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC PARSummary: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOGMcVeigh, Jennifer
Summary: "After six years exiled in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, only to find the home she has longed for in the grip of change. Her father's new companion--a strange, intolerant woman--has taken over the household, and the political climate in the country is growing more unsettled by the day. Looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau - a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCVSummary: Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko's "Jambula Tree", which chronicles a story of two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAFArruda, Suzanne Middendorf
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARRGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "Hassan Omar is a gifted young man, with a potentially bright future but a past marred by poverty. In the wake of a national uprising, and with a new government in place, though, he is denied a scholarship to a university abroad and deprived of the opportunity to study further. Instead, Hassan travels to Nairobi to stay with a wealthy uncle, in the hope that he will release his mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURSummary: A tangled web of blackmail, murder and passion awaits former Scotland Yard detective Albert Tyburn when he arrives in Nairobi. In three mysteries-Private Lives, Hide in Plain Sight and Sport of Kings-Tyburn battles arson, murder, drug-dealers and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2004
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HEASummary: A refugee's escape, a prisoner's promise, and a daughter's painful secret converge in this inspiring true story of hope. As three fathers fight to save their families, their lives become intertwined in an unlikely journey across the globe, where they learn the healing power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: GVN Releasing 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEASummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Constant 2006Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GREBowen, Rhys
Summary: Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is, after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BOWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BOWFord, Mackenzie.
Summary: An exotic setting and a passionate, forbidden affair make an irresistible page-turner that is sure to satisfy readers looking for an intelligent blend of history, romance, and intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORHorowitz, Anthony
Summary: "Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HORBull, Bartle.
Summary: Story of pioneers coming to the African bush after World War I passing through The White Rhino Hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BULJamieson, Victoria
Summary: "Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar's nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future ... but it would also mean leaving his brother, his only family...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC JAMNyong'o, Lupita
Summary: When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYOSummary: In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONArruda, Suzanne Middendorf
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARRArruda, Suzanne Middendorf
Summary: American adventuress Jade del Cameron has returned home to British East Africa to help the Perkins and Daley Zoological Company collect wild animals for zoos in the States when the body of a local merchant is found on a coffee-growing plantation and the prime suspect is Jade's beau, movie-maker and ace World War I flyer Sam Featherstone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Arruda 2009McLain, Paula.
Summary: "Brought to Kenya from England as a child and then abandoned by her mother, Beryl is raised by both her father and the native Kipsigis tribe who share his estate. Her unconventional upbringing transforms Beryl into a bold young woman with a fierce love of all things wild and an inherent understanding of nature's delicate balance. But even the wild child must grow up, and when everything Beryl...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction McLain 2015Raybourn, Deanna.
Summary: Daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah is already notorious even among Paris society. Her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch, and as a result Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until the gossip subsides. The house is a sun-bleached skeleton of a faded dream in a decadent world full of expats. Then she meets Ryder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RAYRiley, Lucinda
Summary: Still reeling from her father's death, a famous model grieves through drugs and alcohol until she receives a shocking letter from a stranger claiming to be her grandmother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILStilton, Thea
Summary: A lion cub is kidnapped while the Thea Sisters visit a Kenyan safari, and they must travel across the savanna to rescue him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION STICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Sreies Stilton 2013McLain, Paula
Summary: "Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015