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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...

"Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure-a year living in Kenya. Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, and about her own husband. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, and they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, a horrific accident occurs....

On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama Panya ever feed them all? This clever and heartwarming story about Kenyan village life teaches the importance of sharing, even when you have little to give.

"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organiser, who realises that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...

When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.

Jambi, a young Kenyan boy who has befriended a lion cub, tracks a band of poachers who have captured some of the lions in the cub's pride.

Sable Dunsmoor returns to Africa to help her widowed father and join her fianc�e's archeological dig. The dangers ofKenya's civil war and the wildlife poachers force Sable to turn to the mysterious adventurer, Kash Hallet, for help. Now Sable is not sure about God's will in her life, her future marriage, or what is happening to her father.

Muktar, an eleven-year-old refugee living in a Kenyan orphanage, dreams of tending camels again, as he did with his nomadic family in Somalia, and has a chance to prove himself when a traveling librarian with an injured camel arrives at his school.

Forced to become a child soldier, sixteen-year-old Somali refugee Abdi must confront his painful past.