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A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette E...
He just knocked, that was all, knocked at the front door and waited, like the fourteen years since the night I'd killed my mother hadn't happened at all...A" Crushed by an impossible shame, Jinx's life has been little more than a shell; estranged from her husband, she is even relieved when he takes her young son with him.
When Lemon, an old friend of her mother's, turns up on her doorstep, Jinx is forced to confront her past, and with the pain of remembrance comes the possibility of redemption.
But Lemon has his own secrets to share, and together they unravel an unforgettable family drama, stoked with violence and passion. Rich with voices from East London and the West Indies, Edwards's narrative is delivered with a unique and uncompromising bite that announces a new talent in British fiction.
MOTHER by Yvvette Edwards
The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely novel about an emotionally devastated mother’s struggle to understand her teenage son’s death, and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of incomprehensible loss.
The unimaginable has happened to Marcia Williams. Her bright and beautiful sixteen-year-old son, Ryan, has been brutally murdered. Consumed by grief and rage, she must bridle her dark feelings and endure something no mother should ever have to experience: she must go to court for the trial of the killer—another teenage boy—accused of taking her son’s life.
How could her son be dead? Ryan should have been safe—he wasn’t the kind of boy to find himself on the wrong end of a knife carried by a dangerous young man like Tyson Manley. But as the trial proceeds, Marcia finds her beliefs and assumptions challenged as she learns more about Ryan’s death and Tyson’s life, including his dysfunctional family. She also discovers troubling truths about her own. As the strain of Ryan’s death tests their marriage, Lloydie, her husband, pulls farther away, hiding behind a wall of secrets that masks his grief, while Marcia draws closer to her sister, who is becoming her prime confidant.
One person seems to hold the answers—and the hope—Marcia needs: Tyson’s scared young girlfriend, Sweetie. But as this anguished mother has learned, nothing in life is certain. Not anymore.
A beautiful, engrossing novel that illuminates some of the most important and troubling issues of our time, The Motheris a moving portrait of love, tragedy, and survival—and the aftershocks from a momentary act of cruel violence that transforms the lives of everyone it touches.
Days Come and Go by Hemley Boum
Chronicling the beauty and turmoil of a rapidly changing Cameroon, Days Come and Go is the remarkable story of three generations of women both within and beyond its borders. Through the voices of Anna, a matriarch living out her final days in Paris; Abi, Anna’s thoroughly European daughter (at least in her mother’s eyes); and Tina, a teenager who comes under the sway of a militant terrorist faction, Boum’s epic is generous and all-seeing.
Brilliantly considering the many issues that dominate her characters’ lives—love and politics, tradition and modernity—Days Come and Go, in Nchanji Njamnsi’s vivid translation, is a page-turner by way of Frantz Fanon and V. S. Naipaul.
As passions rise, fall, and rise again, Boum's stirring English-language debut offers a discerning portrait of a nation that never once diminishes the power of everyday human connection.
The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga
Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about pharmaceutical conspiracy and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.
In a city that has lost its shimmer, Lindanathi and his two friends Ruan and Cecelia sell illegal pharmaceuticals while chasing their next high. Lindanathi, deeply troubled by his hand in his brother's death, has turned his back on his family, until a message from home reminds him of a promise he made years before. When a puzzling masked man enters their lives, Lindanathi is faced with a decision: continue his life in Cape Town, or return to his family and to all he has left behind.
Rendered in lyrical, bright prose and set in a not-so-new South Africa, The Reactive is a poignant, life-affirming story about secrets, memories and the redemption that comes from facing what haunts us most.
ANIMAL KINGDOM CATEGORIZED
In this reference book, the context has been revised to suit upper primary/elementary and secondary/ high school students. It is also suited for any other interested persons who may want to know and learn more about animals.
Altogether, more than 360 images of animals have been classified in their distinct categories commonly known to people for easy reading, identification and referencing.
The aim of this book is to provide a simple descriptive text with illustrated images of and about animals to students and learners.
WORLD FOODS AND DISHES
World foods and dishes is a cookbook that describes, with illustrated images the different types of foods in the world. It also describes the different world dishes, what they are prepared or made of and the country of origin.
The foods are grouped into two broad categories namely basic foods and prepared foods. Under basic foods there are cereal grains, vegetables, fruits, baked goods, meat foods, seafood, herbs and spices, drinks and beverages. Under prepared foods there are foods such as appetizers, snack foods, desserts, confectionery, condiments, dips and pastes, pies and pancakes, noodles and pasta, sauces, sandwiches, soups and stews. All of these foods have different examples of the dishes from all over the world.
Altogether about 1,800 images have been used to describe the dishes in an alphabetical order for easier identification and referencing.
The objective of this book is to provide cooks, chefs, learners and anybody else interested with a diverse knowledge of the various different foods and dishes from all over the world.
The Men Do Not Eat Wings – A No...
Set in Kenya and spanning almost three centuries from the pre-colonial 1700s to the turbulent 1990s, The Men Do Not Eat Wings tells the intertwined stories of eight men from five generations of a Luo family: Nwanji, Oweh, Osewe, Ang’awa, Luka, Boro, Okello, and Sakawa. In 1999, one of them, Luka, a successful farmer and businessman in western Kenya, is brutally murdered.
A poor squatter on Luka’s farm is arrested and charged with committing the crime. But at Luka’s funeral, why does his widow seem to suggest that Luka might have done something that contributed to his death? The answer lies partly in Luka’s recent business dealings and the complicated relationships that underpinned them.
The answer also lies in Luka’s entanglement in sinister tribalistic political schemes that soon draw in his son, Sakawa, and his brother, Okello. But most of all, the answer lies in Luka’s family history and Luo culture – both of which are marked by male dominance, bravery, violence, ambition, and love.
The Unclothed Body by Black Bantu
The unclothed body is grounded in the everyday experience of both men and women and holds witness to the beautiful and crude side of being one and the other. the collection is divided in to four chapters body, heart, feet, Spine; each dealing with different kind of experiences and grief. "The body" explores endurance and how essential endurance is in the face of abuse, Loss, toxic masculinity and self-love.
"The heart" is about falling in love and falling out of love; it's about desperately yearning Something that's not intended for you, hence the pain it brings. but its also about forgiving yourself. "The feet" Covers healing and is full of Self love, hope, forgiveness, freedom from shame and Courage to grow beyond our traumas. "The spine" honors what it means to be African and traces back to our roots. It shows the power of our genesis and how it shapes our entire lives.
The Unclothed body is a commemoration of what it means to be Vulnerable and how there is Strength in openness. The book Sparks a Conversation, like therapy. It's the pillar needed to heal our Inner traumas.
Mitha Mugikuyu Na Nyimbo Ciake
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matte...
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.
Chain Reaction by Maria Mmari Lasoi
We recite the sinner's prayer and give our lives to Jesus but when the church service ends, when the music stops and the lights go off we still have to go home to our realities. We wake up the next day and expect everything to have disappeared.
We imagine that because the prison doors have been flung open, our life sentence revoked, our list of offenses blotted out, that we will find ourselves automatically in a different place in our lives.
Our chains have been broken but we have to take steps daily out of the prison - that becomes the beginning of a lifelong journey. A journey that only ends when we eventually one day enter the gates of heaven and come face to face with our precious Savior to dwell with him forever."
How do we react to He who sets us free? How do we react to what He already did on the cross for us?
Chain Reaction is a follow up book of Project Cross: Lessons From Living For Self To Living For Christ and deals with the different stages and seasons we go through as Christians right from the second we finish the prayer of repentance. With Biblical reference, Chain Reaction explains the repercussions of the disease that is sin, the cure that came on the cross and the freedom as a result thereof. Chain Reaction offers practical tips on how to press on in a new relationship with Christ and covers some of the mental ,spiritual, social and emotional struggles that come with a new life in Christ that we are often plagued with. With personal testimonies and 'prison' tales, Maria Mmari vulnerably and authentically throughout stays true to the central theme of chains, imprisonment and uses this as an allegory for the spiritual life and how we react to the newfound freedom in Christ.
Faithful Follower by Maria Mmari Lasoi
Now more than ever, we need better rules of engagement and rhythms for online life that protect the work of God within us as he molds us into more faithful followers of Christ.
In the early days, the followers of Jesus were called Followers of the Way. Those who responded to the invitation, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Followers of Jesus were invited to be with Jesus, walk like Jesus and talk like Jesus and hung on to every word of His. He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Following Him has a path laid out already. The narrow path, as we are told in scripture.
From the invention of telegraphs, that would be distributed in town squares, to the radio, that would broadcast information along an even further radius, to the television and now social media that spreads information in seconds. Each technological breakthrough has proven to be an instrument that has the potential to propel our mission as followers of Jesus. Each innovation has also as well as the potential to threaten our devotion and compete with our allegiance to Christ. Through biblical teaching, Maria shares what it means to be a digitally connected follower of Jesus covering some of the issues we run into in our allegiance to Christ including:
Identity
Devotion, Distraction and Destruction
Idols and Disordered Loves
Biblical Illiteracy and Scripture Engagement
Content: Consecration and Compromise
Online Influencers & Stewarding Influence
Zeal and Legacy
Community and Discipleship
Emotions
In Faithful Follower, Maria delves into our lives as followers in light of eternity and work backwards into the present digital age examining what it means to be a digitally connected follower, remaining anchored to where our true identity lies and our mission on earth as deep, resilient and devoted followers of Jesus no matter what innovation comes next.
BUILDING IN KENYA : A REAL ESTATE DEV...
Building in Kenya aims to be the developers’ one-stop informational resource, an invaluable guide through the real estate development process. It assists with identification and evaluation of risks involved in the different stages of a building project and development of strategies with checklists and worksheets for developers to minimise risks on their project.
Building in Kenya also contextualises the Kenyan real estate development market through information gathered from interviews conducted with sector professionals and consultants. Interviews were also conducted with developers of various structures – individual, family and corporate with experience developing for the first time and serial developments.
The second revision of Building in Kenya includes an additional chapter focused on the design process, with a particular emphasis on green design. This chapter provides developers with guidance on how to approach the design of their building projects in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way.
Affirmation Booklet – by Lydia KM
Back to me journal – by Lydia KM
Prayers For Your Future Seed
In this book:
1: You will learn how God indeed delights to give you the good gift of children
2: You will be healed if past pain if you have ever committed an abortion
3: You will learn to walk in faith concerning your future children and even be stirred up to name them by name!
4: You will learn and be infused with the energy of the Spirit to war for your children.
Prayers For Your Future Seed
In this book:
1: You will learn how God indeed delights to give you the good gift of children
2: You will be healed if past pain if you have ever committed an abortion
3: You will learn to walk in faith concerning your future children and even be stirred up to name them by name!
4: You will learn and be infused with the energy of the Spirit to war for your children.
Eniola – A Story Of Abuse, Pain...
Prayers For Your Future Husband Journal
The “Prayers for your Future Husband Journal” was birth out of the main book titled “Prayers for your Future Husband”.
The journal came the same way the book did – through prayer.
The journal consists of a “21 days prayers for your future husband challenge.”
The challenge does not only consist of prayers for your future husband, but begins with prayers for the one who is already releasing sweet-smelling incense to heaven – you – the wife
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in...
A stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves.
Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world.
Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, “The Window Seat,” she reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In “Obama and the Renaissance Generation,” she documents how, despite the narrative of Obama’s exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In “The Last Vet,” time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a meditation on what a society’s treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In “Crossroads,” she examines race in America from an African perspective, and in “Power Walking” she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman’s body and in “The Watch” she explores the raptures of sleep and sleeplessness the world over.
Deeply meditative and written with a wry humor, The Window Seat confirms that Forna is a vital voice in international letters.
