Nambi, Shoshana
Summary: "Sukkot is Shoshi's favorite Jewish holiday. She and her brothers love to decorate their sukkah, the hut where her family will celebrate. But who will win the Ugandan Abayudaya community's annual sukkah contest? While only one sukkah can be the best, everybody wins when neighbors work together."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kalaniot Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAMMcBrier, Page.
Summary: A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCBMakumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
Summary: 'First published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections, the novel begins in 1750, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way, he unleashes a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Transit Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKMakumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga
Summary: "In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAKSullivan, Mark T.
Summary: "Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. They are both outstanding students and good kids before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "With empathy and political intrigue, this is a gripping story of two women from different worlds who become inextricably bound in a quest to save their loved ones. The Atlas of Forgotten Places is that rare novel that delivers an exquisite portrait of family and love within a breathlessly thrilling narrative. After a long career as an aid worker, Sabine Hardt has retreated to her native...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WILKingsbury, Karen
Summary: From bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the third novel in an unforgettable, heart-wrenching series about divine intervention and the trials and triumphs of life for a group of friends whose lives could affect the future of the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction KinOza, Janika
Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OZAWallace, Jim.
Summary: You're on a photojournalism assignment in Uganda, piecing together the plight of the mountain gorillas. You've had tremendous help from different people from all over Africa but now a man from a local tribe has come to you for help. His young daughter has vanished and you and your friends must brave a rainstorm to help him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chooseco 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC YOULaValle, Victor D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAVBenaron, Naomi
Summary: Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENHunter, Erin
Summary: "Three young pandas set out on separate journeys to save their homes and families in the Bamboo Kingdom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HUNSummary: Examines the role played by the American evangelical movement and the International House of Prayer megachurch in the state-sanctioned persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014