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Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a giant refugee camp for Somalis. Two men, two women, each with their own reasons for being there. But after twelve weeks, they're ready for a break and pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure. They get more than they bargained for. Bandits hijack them. They wake up in a hut, hooded, bound, no food or water. Hostages. As a personal favor, John Wells is asked to try to find them,...
2) War cry
Author
Series
Courtney volume 15
Language
English
Description
"As a member of the remarkable Courtney family, Leon Courtney knows how quickly fortunes can be won and lost. Over the course of more than two centuries, generations of his family have risen and fallen with the tides of history. Leon, too, has experienced his own share of triumph and pain. In the wake of his beloved wife's death, the renowned big-game hunter is raising his young daughter, Saffron, alone in colonial Kenya. In the 1920s, the continent...
3) Unholy land
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Lior Tirosh is a semi-successful author of pulp fiction, an inadvertent time traveler, and an ongoing source of disappointment to his father. Tirosh has returned to his homeland in East Africa. But Palestina--a Jewish state founded in the early 20th century--has grown dangerous. The government is building a vast border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in Ararat City is growing. And Tirosh's childhood friend, trying to deliver a warning,...
4) Assegai
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-soldier Leon Courtney, working as a professional hunter in British East Africa on the eve of World War I, has become famous after leading U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt on a safari, which leads to his being recruited to gather information on German industrialist Count Otto von Meerbach, and the task becomes dangerous when he falls in love with Meerbach's mistress, and stumbles on a plot to wipe out the British forces in Africa.
5) Free fall
Author
Series
Elite force volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pararescueman Jose "Cuervo" James can't imagine committing to anything other than his job. But when he parachutes deep into East Africa to rescue wounded Interpol agent Sarah Carson - a woman from his past - he finds himself ensnared in more ways than he can count. Racing through the jungle to stop separatists from attacking the U.S. embassy, Jose and Sarah must call upon their training to survive. Could this be their second chance at passion...or...
6) Taken
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rio Cruz and a crew of young disabled veterans are teamed up to sail around the world for charity--but when they are kidnapped by an psychotic African warlord and his band of child soldiers the trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare journey into the African jungle.
7) War cry
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
"As a member of the remarkable Courtney family, Leon Courtney knows how quickly fortunes can be won and lost. Over the course of more than two centuries, generations of his family have risen and fallen with the tides of history. Leon, too, has experienced his own share of triumph and pain. In the wake of his beloved wife's death, the renowned big-game hunter is raising his young daughter, Saffron, alone in colonial Kenya. In the 1920s, the continent...
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after his father's execution, Hal pursues his efforts to exact revenge, while trying to secure his fortunes and protect his growing family.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kurt Krausmann's settled existence as a Frankfurt doctor is torn apart when his wife commits suicide. Unable to make sense of what happened, he agrees to join his friend Hans on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. But as they sail through the Gulf of Aden their boat is boarded by pirates. The two men are taken hostage and imprisoned in a cave on the East African coast. Their ordeal is just beginning: the hostile kidnappers and environment will...
11) Strange gods
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In early 20th century British East Africa, there are rules for the British and different ones for the Africans. Vera McIntosh, the daughter of Scottish missionaries, doesn't feel she belongs to either group; having grown up in Africa, she is not interested in being the well-bred Scottish woman her mother would like her to be. More than anything she dreams of seeing again the handsome police officer she's danced with. But more grisly circumstances...
12) H.R.H
Author
Language
English
Description
Princess Christianna, the only daughter of the reigning prince of a European nation, manages to convince her father to allow her to volunteer for the Red Cross in East Africa where she meets the love of her life, but when tragedy strikes she must accept the burden of leading her country, placing her relationship with Dr. Parker Williams in jeopardy.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Left for the day while their mother goes hunting, four little cheetahs find they are not alone. One after another, savanna animals tempt the babies to leave the safety of the grass. Will they do what is right for the other animals, or what is right for the cheetahs?
14) Ghost heart
Author
Series
Agents of mercy thriller volume 01
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A brutal murder convinces Dr. Mia Kendall there's more than she imagined to the mysterious spike in heart transplant rejections. Determined to find answers before she loses another patient, Mia gets sucked into a dangerous international medical web. With time running out for her youngest transplant recipient, Mia is forced to partner with a disillusioned ex-military pilot who flies brokered organs across East Africa. But searching for the truth will...
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