QUICK DELIVERY
Swift dispatch
Do or do
Juma hawks groundnuts and sweets in the streets of Dandora to supplement his mother's income. His fortune however changes when he joins Dandora Stars, a local football team. It takes the coach's determination and Juma's intellect for the team to progress in the Under-17 Tournament. With setbacks such as poverty, betrayal and corruption, will Juma be able to achieve his dream of becoming a renowned footballer?
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n'Do or do' is a story of teamwork, friendship, family and betrayal in the quest to achieve dreams.
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nStarLit Readers is a series targeting lower secondary school students. The series is also recommended for other readers looking for entertaining modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The readers in this series will certainly keep you turning the pages.
Finding Colombia
Lex lives on the streets, with little to do apart from sniffing Jet Lee and minding his own business. Lex's uneventful life is interrupted when he is tracked down by the Anti-Drugs Agency (ADA) officers. They need Lex to help them: to work as an undercover agent to find Colombia, a notorious and influential but elusive drug baron. The criminal is said to be hiding in a rehabilitation centre. It is here that Lex is enrolled by the ADA for the covert operation and later starts his rehabilitation journey.
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n'Finding Colombia' is a story of determination to rid society of drug and substance abuse and find purpose in life.
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nStarLit Readers is a series targeting Junior School learners in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The series is also recommended for other readers looking for modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The books in this series will certainly keep you turning the pages.
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nKICD APPROVED For Junior School
Flower of a Stump
"If what I am thinking is true, then she is dead. She could not have survived the kind of journey I went through," said Majok.
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n"She could have tried to start the journey, right?"
n"Right," Majok agreed.
n"Let's begin with the positive side - that she is alive somewhere. The question is, where?" pursued Paul.
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nWhen a helicopter bombs their school, Achal Dong does not comprehend what the violence is all about. When masked gunmen attack their home, the danger is real and she runs for her life. She begins her long journey that finally takes her to Nairobi where she struggles with an identity crisis and craves the good things in life.
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nStarLit Readers is a new series targeting lower secondary school students. The series is also recommended for other readers looking for modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The readers in this series will certainly keep you turning the pages.
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nMiriam Maranga-Musonye holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Nairobi, where she teaches. She has conducted research on the plight of children. Miriam enjoys storytelling and believes in the intrinsic beauty of literary art and its ability to illuminate social issues.
The weaver of Dreams
G. Chocha lives a charmed life in peri-urban Maua, spending most of his time playing pool with his friends and occasionally engaging in small businesses.
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nHowever, there is a problem. The girl he loves is in love with his best friend and this is threatening to destroy his world and his sanity until one day he gets the chance to travel and study abroad. His worldview changes dramatically as he embarks on an exciting yet perilous journey of self-discovery. What is more, he not only falls in love again but wins a jackpot that could transform his life upon his return to his home town.
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n'The Weaver of Dreams' is a story of hope and victory over great odds. Young readers everywhere will love and easily identify with it.
A Rebirth
"Mum, why did you say I had gone to visit Grandma?" "Nancy, you ask too many questions for your age."
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n"I'm sorry, Mum. Just allow me one more question and I promise I will not ask more."
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n"You may ask, my daughter."
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n"When will I go back to school?" Nkatha was silent for some time.
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n"Nancy. I need to raise five thousand shillings to give Miriti if you are to go back to school," Nkatha said.
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n"What has Miriti got to do with it? He's not the head teacher!"
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nNancy has always kept some painful secrets locked away in her memory. It was the safest thing to do then. However, some bitter truths are now screaming to be let out for Nancy to live a fulfilling life. A trip to a retreat centre affords Nancy the chance to confront the ghosts of her past.
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nStarLit Readers is a series targeting lower secondary school students. The series is also recommended for other readers looking for hilarious modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The readers in this series will certainly keep you turning the pages.
Passenger 141
Reversed Agenda
One more Chance
The Man in Green Dungarees
We Come in Peace
The Bizarre Bazaar
Suddenly, something descended on me and everything went black! My first instinct was to fight but my struggle was short-lived. I must have lost consciousness.
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nWhen I opened my eyes, it took a while for me to realise that I was lying on the ground. My arms and legs, I realized, were tied with ropes.
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nIn this riveting story, an adventure at a funfare turns dangerous when Marto and Kevin find themselves embroiled in a kidnap and carjacking saga.
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nStarLit Readers is a series targeting Junior School learners in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The series is also recommended for other readers looking for modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The books in this series will certainly, keep you turning the pages.
Shortchanged!
The Dumpsite Puzzle
This is serious and dangerous," Uncle Ben said after listening to our story. He then warned us not to mention it to anyone.
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n"Boys, you will now let the police take it up from here. Do not, and I repeat, do not go to that area again," Sergeant Keroi added. "Can we accompany the police to show them the hidden gate?" I asked thoughtlessly.
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n"NO!" The cry came from both mothers. It was all so dangerous.
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nStarLit Readers is a series targeting Junior School learners in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The series is also recommended for other readers looking for modern stories told in a powerful and highly refreshing fashion. The books in this series will certainly keep you turning the pages.
Twelve Months
The Hunter is Back
The Burdens
Wamala, an erstwhile Cabinet Minister of a country in post-independence Africa, was detained for plotting with foreigners to overthrow the government. When released he failed to reconcile himself with the life of abject poverty and nagging family obligations.
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nAct I poses the problem deceptively as if the argument going on is the familiar one of the neglected wife exploiting sympathy from her two children and using it to fight the husband.
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nIn Act II, with rapidly increasing tension, both wife and husband bring up their past and end by having their greatest confrontation. The impression at the end of Act II is that this is the last moment of choice for Wamala: to find his feet as a man or to go under finally. Act III reveals the aftermath of his choice.
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nJohn Ruganda has maintained a keen interest in theatre since his student days at Makerere University College, where he graduated with an honours degree in English Literature.
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nHe is a lecturer in the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi. His two full-length plays, Black Mamba and Covenant with Death are published by the East African Publishing House. Study Guide to 'The Burdens' by E. Kitonga is also available.
The Trials of Brother Jero
Brother Jeroboam is a self-professed man of God who preaches water but drinks wine. He has managed to convince a group of people that he is God's prophet with divine powers to have their dreams fulfilled. Through this, he takes advantage of his faithful who are just too eager to be told what they want to hear. Like many of the 'prophets' we see everywhere today, Brother Jero, as he likes to be called, has managed to keep his followers in a tight grip of spiritual slavery. When Chume, his faithful assistant and heir apparent, discovers the real man behind the mask, Brother Jero won't stop at anything to make sure that he is 'well taken care of'!
Clean Hands
Ndakika, a diehard traditionalist who was once a Christian believes a man of principles marries early and surrounds his father with grandsons. But he also strongly believes that when the donkey married the horse it begot something that was neither here nor there. 'I don't want a mule for a grandson', he says emphatically. But his son, Moses, is madly in love with Mwende, the beautiful daughter of Nzemeli, and Nzemeli happens to be Ndakika's topmost enemy.
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nAt the same time, the strict Sunday school teacher that is Mwende had some time in the past tasted the fruit of maturity with a 'butterfly', which went against an oath she and Moses had taken ten years back to remain faithful to each other. Clearly, the roots have caught the blight; will the fruits also taste it? The stage is now set for a major collision, at a time when a strange fever has hit the village.
Glass Houses
Kito Makato, now the undisputed head of his family, is in for a rude awakening. Things are fast getting out of hand on the home front as his wife of twelve years, Kawira, discovers that ‘there is no peace without truth’ and, under pressure from an old friend, decides to lay bare her controversial past. Arguing that ‘God made woman to keep recreating her man over and over again’ and that ‘No man is a hero to his wife; even if she is a bushwoman,’ Kawira, a woman on several missions, uses silence; persuasion, threats, wit, sarcasm and whatever other ammunition she can think of to puncture all the bubbles thrown in her way. So, is anyone out there bold enough to throw stones into her territory ‘when we all live in glasshouses’?
Musa na Shamba la Shule
Wazo la kuanzisha shamba la shule linawafanya wanafunzi wa Mukibi's Educational Institute for the Sons of African Gentlemen kuandaa mgomo baridi. Kwa madai yao wenyewe, wako shuleni 'kusomea mitihani' wala si kuwa mashokoa wa mwalimu mkuu, Mzee Mukibi. Hata hivyo, hakuna aliye tayari kumkabili mwalimu mkuu kwa kuhofia kuonekana muasi. Masaibu ya Musa na marafiki zake yanazidi kufuatia 'kutoweka' kwa nguruwe dume, na kuku sita kuibwa. Mwalimu mkuu naye ameapa kufanya juu chini kuwanasa wezi.