Book Description
Baba Oko, a taxi driver, experiences the horror of his life when the ghost of the woman he thinks he has killed while driving drunk comes back to haunt him.
Author : Kofi Seyki
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1993-07
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780791029145
Baba Oko, a taxi driver, experiences the horror of his life when the ghost of the woman he thinks he has killed while driving drunk comes back to haunt him.
Author : Kofi Sekyi
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 1991
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780435892319
One of a series of readers for African students which aims to help them to develop an awareness and a love of language, and consists of stories from all over Africa. In this story taxi driver Baba Oko hopes to make a lot of money on graduation night, and has a few drinks to help him drive faster.
Author : Dave Dwonch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781632291271
After a young boy dies in his taxi cab, Cyrus Perkins must solve the boy's murder... or be haunted by the spirit trapped in his car! Double Jumpers creator and co-writer of the hit all-ages series Vamplets teams with rising star Anna Lencioni to deliver a supernatural crime noir with a hero like no other: Cyrus Perkins!
Author : Kofi Seyki
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780613972215
-- Entertaining and original stories -- Contains realistic characters -- Colorful plots relate directly to everyday life in cities, towns, villages, and the countryside of Africa -- Designed to improved reading skills -- Graded into five levels of complexity and language difficulty, with Level 1 for beginning readers and Level 5 for young adults
Author : Michael Philips
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780435890988
Intended for use with the JAWS series or any other readers, this book provides many activities showing ways in which supplementary readers can be used, from predicting what will happen next and role-plays, to writing a book review and designing a book cover. A cross-curricular approach to teaching is encouraged, encompassing subjects such as environment/conservation, art, current events, and maths and technology. The book is aimed at both new and experienced teachers.
Author : Richard Blanchard
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,12 MB
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178306174X
Snow Blind is a viciously funny novel with a moral. It lifts the lid on male relationships and asks whether men ever truly grow up. More importantly, what impact is this having on the legacy we leave our kids? Dan Greenhenge is sliding uncontrollably towards the dual dangers of a gaping ice-blue crevasse and a marriage of convenience. This 40-year old music obsessed copywriter is a lovely, but hapless man, his survival will be determined by whether he can finally take responsibility for himself. Richard Blanchard’s début novel takes place over an extended stag ski weekend in Chamonix, France, below the peaks of Mont Blanc. Dan is under pressure from every angle. First his son Bepe is in a life threatening accident at Manchester Airport, and then there is Robert, an estranged college friend who disrespects everything Dan is, who leads the stag party astray. Dan’s boss has heaped work on him, to try to save their advertising agency. But his biggest worry is the presence of Juliet, the ‘love of his lifetime’ ex-girlfriend who has wrangled her way into the weekend, an honorary stag-ette on a mission. As the stags push Dan into increasingly embarrassing situations, he can’t refuse. But when they take this novice skier to the Vallee Blanche, some of the most challenging terrain in Europe, have they pushed him too far?
Author : Edited by Børge Bakken
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9888208667
Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called ‘cake uncles’, illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being ‘re-educated’ in detention centres, and internet addicts who are treated as criminals by the system. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control. ‘An original and important contribution to comparative criminology, international studies, and crime and justice research in China, this book highlights the ironies present in the American Dream that exist in the Chinese Dream as well. It contains diverse research topics that separate ideology from reality, and Bakken’s excellent introduction frames them in the literatures on social problems and social inequality.’ —Henry N. Pontell, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York ‘This is an outstanding collection of essays which importantly enlarges the terms of debate on crime in China. It reveals how China is complex, not only because of its internal social and economic diversity, but also because of integration into global capitalism, with all its inherent inequalities and commodification.’ —Bill Hebenton, Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester
Author : Martina Augustin
Publisher : Ginn
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language arts (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780602311216
Author : Morowa Yejidé
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1617758884
With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. Longlisted for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction “Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and N.K. Jemisin . . . Creatures of Passage is that rare novel that dispenses ancestral wisdom and literary virtuosity in equal measure.” —Washington Post Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash—reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw—has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the “River Man.” When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys’s door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most. Morowa Yejidé’s deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself.
Author : Lee Murray
Publisher : Black Spot Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 164548131X
From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.