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English
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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 White, her guide to the complex beauty of African wildlife...
3) The matatu
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
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A young boy takes a ride on the matatu bus with his grandfather for his fifth birthday, and along the way his grandfather tells him the story of why dogs chase the bus, goats run from it, and sheep pay no attention to it.
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 1
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An ambulance driver during WWI, Jade del Cameron promises a dying soldier that she'll track down his brother. The only problem is that the soldier's mother, whom Jade goes to visit in London, insists that she had only one son. Jade reasons that the missing brother must have been born to another woman, conceived when the now deceased family patriarch was exploring East Africa. So off she goes to Nairobi, where she mingles with the colonial elite, kills...
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Heading home to British East Africa to assist in the collection of wild animals for American zoos, Jade del Cameron finds her task complicated by the murder of a merchant whose body turns up on a local coffee plantation.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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.
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 5
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Intrepid photojournalist Jade del Cameron is about to embark on safari for a Hollywood film. But when the film's financial backer is stabbed to death, the trip is cast under a sinister pall. Now, Jade will be tested as never before.
10) Countdown
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English
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In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 3
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
During a vacation in the ancient port city of Tangier, American adventuress Jade del Cameron finds her trip to 1920s Morocco turned upside down by the kidnapping of her mother and by the local French authorities, who seek to arrest her for murder.
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 6
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Returning from Europe, intrepid explorer Jade del Cameron arrives in Kenya with bittersweet memories and the certainty that Africa is her home. When two men die under mysterious circumstances and Jade discovers that her old nemesis, Lilith Worthy, has escaped from prison, the deaths and the letter form the most dangerous case Jade has ever faced, pitting her against a ferocious crocodile, and an even more deadly human killer.
13) The night ranger
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Series
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English
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When four friends, working at a giant refugee camp in Kenya for Somalis, are hijacked by bandits, John Wells, brought in to find them, goes undercover in a country that isn't his usual playing field where he discovers that the truth behind the kidnappings is far more complex than he imagined.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters hidden beneath the waves. All Aisha wants is for things to return to normal. But a showdown with the father of all sharks looms, and at home, things only grow stranger"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Stalking ivory
Author
Series
Jade Del Cameron volume 2
Publisher
NAL
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
On a photography assignment in the northern territory of Mount Marsabit, Jade and her friends Beverly and Avery Dunbury hope to capture on film the area's colossal elephants. Instead they discover the mutilated remains of four elephants and one man. The authorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search of ivory and slaves. But Jade has her own suspicions, which are only heightened when she discovers a cache of German rifles hidden in a...
17) Thunder cave
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2000.
Language
English
Description
After his mother's accidental death, Jacob is determined to undermine his stepfather's plans for his future and travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist who studies elephants in a remote area of Kenya.
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
20) Ndito runs
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A Kenyan girl runs past the thatch-coverd homes in her village, up the hillside, through the grassland, by the water hole, on her way to school.
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