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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Seventeen-year-old Janet fell in love with Eduardo when she heard him speak about Africa at a church camp in 1951. This love defined the rest of her life. The agony of racial discrimination, alienation from family, the fear of betrayal and even death could derail her love. White Shadow is a novel that tells the story of her unsung role in a brutal ten-year war effort in the fight for the Independence of Mozambique.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village ate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter....
Author
Series
Sofia (Henning Mankell) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Sofia, who lost her legs as a child, is now grown up with children in Mozambique, but when she discovers that Armando, the father of her children, is cheating on her, she leaves him, igniting his terrible rage.
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