The Lion, the Tortoise, and the Princess Gazelle


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A boastful and proud lion and a slow and small tortoise have a common problem. They both want to marry the beautiful Princess Gazelle! The princess gives them a challenge: they must each build her a house. Whoever finishes first will have the princess’s hand. The lion is sure he will defeat the tortoise. But the tortoise has a plan that just might work!




Never Say Never


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Anthony Mugo's Never Say Never is a compelling story of a teenager's quest for education under the most difficult conditions. Daniel Muthini Njoki, the son of a poor, single mother, is arrested and taken to a remand home in Murang'a, then to Getathuru Reception Centre. He is subsequently transferred to other approved schools: Kericho, Othaya, and finally Kabete, where he sits and passes the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education. The doors to a university are now open. Although he is an innocent inmate, and although textual evidence points in the direction of the mother, the question of who engineered his arrest is part of what makes this work so un-put-downable. The sum total is a superlatively well-written novel about the difficulties, the challenges, and the hopes of getting an education in Kenya.




Arab Folktales


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Louisiana Folk-tales


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Scaling Up Compensation


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The Three Hostages


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The fourth of the five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan. Here we find our hero Richard Hannay living a quiet life in the countryside with a wife and young child but his past comes back to haunt him and he once more must face up to an arch-enemy.




Little Zoo Animals Coloring Book


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Mini-format menagerie of 60 animals — from aardvarks to zebras. Cavalcade of charming, realistically drawn creatures includes kangaroos, elephants, a grizzly bear, a walrus, penguins, a weasel, an eagle, an orangutan, a mountain lion, and dozens of other animals — many depicted with their young. Captions.




The Book of Imaginary Beings


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As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the




A to Zoo


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A guide to 12,000 titles cataloged under 700 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.




Rouse of Widowhood


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“Women like myself!” I saluted to a rousing reception. "We are here!" the women chorused. I stood in the middle of the women. They gathered around me on all sides at the square entrance of Eke-oha market. “Women like myself!!” “We are here!!” “Women like myself!!!” “We are here!!!” They responded a third time. "Today, the wind has blown, and we can now see the behind of the fowl. We now know that these white rulers do not like us, and our men do not like us too." “Who bears nine months of labor pains?” “We do, we do.” “Who bears all the labor of housework and raising the children?” “We do, we do.” “Who tends the men and nourishes all their desires?” “We do, we do.” “Women like myself!” “We are here!” “We shall not be counted. We will not pay tax. We will not pay tax because we bear the children and we bear the fire of kitchen coals on our palms.” “It is the truth, it is the truth.” "Where the rat eats is where it falls. The men must tell us why the hen must always be spread-eagled for the randy cockerel.” "Today, we will burn down the courthouse, and we will have their red caps." The women needed no more prodding. My last statement had aroused their anger.