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Author
Publisher
Andersen Digital
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father?s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable - a sudden death - occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Benson�s great-grandmother Winnie�s ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the family�s attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes with bitter...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2008
Description
But amidst the carnage and turmoil, he found a new calling... As a Zaghawa tribesman in the Darfur region of Sudan, Daoud Hari grew up racing camels across the desert, attending gloriously colourful weddings and, when his work was done, playing games under the moonlight. But in 2003, helicopter gunships swooped down on Darfur's villages and shattered that way of life for ever. Soon, Sudanese government-backed militias, attacking on horseback, came...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Earlier this year, Autumn?s life looked great: she had a great relationship with her brilliant teenage daughter Chloe and from September she was all set to be Deputy Head at the London school where she works. And with a pay rise on the cards, she was excited for her and her long-term boyfriend Marc to buy their first home. But Autumn?s barely opened the estate agent's website when Marc vanishes with half their savings, leaving her no choice but to...
5) Villager
Author
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2022
Description
There?s so much to know. It will never end, I suspect, even when it does. So much in all these lives, so many stories, even in this small place. Villages are full of tales: some are forgotten while others become a part of local folklore. But the fortunes of one West Country village are watched over and irreversibly etched into its history as an omniscient, somewhat crabby, presence keeps track of village life. In the late sixties a Californian musician...
Author
Series
Song of Ice and Fire volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Beyond the Northern borders, wildlings leave their villages to gather in the ice and stone wasteland of the Frostfangs. From there, the renegade Brother Mance Rayder will lead them South towards the Wall. The men of the Night?s Watch are ready for the coming of a great cold and the walking corpses that travel with it. But now they face a horde of wildlings twenty-thousand strong - hungry savage people steeped in the dark magic of the haunted wilderness...
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