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Long Vacation Encounters

Long Vacation Encounters

How time flies! The days seem to be crawling, but here is third term already. For Kukua and her friend Samira, the challenges in the third term are very high. Will her dreadful dream become a reality? These are her challenging times in senor high school.

210 pages

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The Heritage

The Heritage

Sosu and his mates are put to test by their teacher, to search for the meaning of national pledge and national anthem. This story has something to tell every boy or girl, man or woman, whose lives among people who value their heritage.

162 pages

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Second Term Expectations

Second Term Expectations

In the second term, Kukua and her mate Samira run into several experiences that blow their minds away. Second term at Eternity Senior High School turns out to be highly eventful, with lots of expectations to pursue.

216 pages

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Just Between Us

Just Between Us

If you had the opportunity to write a critical letter to your spouse, what would the content of that letter be, especially if no one else but just the two of you would ever know what you wrote? The stories in Just Between Us are unforgettable and deeply touching.

255 pages

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Journeys of an African Father

Journeys of an African Father

Chamba Jato was a witty old man full of practical wisdom and a lively attitude to work and life. This biographical novel is full of such valuable lessons from the old man's journeys of experiences.

174 pages

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First Term Surprises

First Term Surprises

Kukua can't believe what she sees when she goes to the internet café to check her BECE results. She realised she had her first choice. It is here that a series of surprises welcome her throughout the first term. Surely, first term in the senior high school is full of surprises!

231 pages

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Entertainment Night

Entertainment Night

If the entertainment prefect thinks his idea of amusement will please every student, he is sadly mistaken. Asamoah doesn't see any amusement in what the prefect has in mind. By the time Asamoah discovers that the school entertainment is not bad after all, it is too late for him to undo what has been done.

190 pages

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Choices

Choices

Choices is a set of memorable short stories of young people. The choices these young people made determined their destiny.

170 pages

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Blood Invasion

Blood Invasion

Blood Invasion is an unforgettable tale, the disturbing saga of a deadly disease that puts family, friendship, and love on trial . . . a powerful reminder that living must be done more carefully.

250 pages

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All the Way to Calvary

All the Way to Calvary

The stories of people who met Him. Everybody who met the Teacher had a story to tell: his close associates, friends, foreigners, leaders in authority, nobles, ordinary men and women, and even his enemies. Now friends and foes reveal in detail what happened to them before and after their spectacular encounters with the Man from Galilee, the Man the leaders hated and feared but whom the citizens loved. You have read about them in the Scriptures, but now listen to them tell their personal experiences. This biblical novel, packed from the highly imaginative writing or author Lawrence Darmani, is a deeply moving, true-to-live narratives of familiar stories with unfamiliar twists and turns that will surprise and thrill the reader. This is an expedition into a reading experience that will live with you for a long time.

438 pages

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Olivia

Olivia

Olivia Akua Yeboah gets stranded at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi due to over-booking complications. At the check-in point, she meets Bill Quaye who will change her life forever. Bill Quaye is on his way to Accra on a one-year sabbatical leave to inspect his business at the home and to look for a bride. The game park tour the airline compensates the stranded passengers with unearths deep emotions that explode within Olivia and ill. But Olivia has a hidden past that so upsets Bill’s well-guarded preference that he literally flees, leaving behind a woman with a damaged heart. Olivia thought she had lost Bill Quaye for good, until she returned to where it all began.

447 pages

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Adu

Adu

In this second book of Grief Child, Adu receives unpleasant news and a premonition about his friend and mentor Yaro and travels to the north to look for him. In a different culture and a new environment, loads of shocks, surprises, fears, and tears await him. Unlike Adu the small boy, who roamed the forest farms of Susa before the disaster befell his family, he is now a young adult undertaking new ventures and experimenting with strange ways of doing things. In Adu, the child of grief is no longer a child, nor is he lonely; but grief and headaches still follow him into his new adventures. Find out what became of Yaro, Teacher Ofori and Beckie, the village of Susa, and Adu’s best friend Ama. Was aunt Goma really the leopard in Adu’s dream? Why did she hate Adu so much? How about Mansa and the secret between her and Goma? Adu, the sequel to the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Grief Child, answers these questions and reveals more happenings in the life of the now young adult. If you enjoyed Grief Child and wept with Adu, here is the opportunity to laugh with him and, well, shed a few more tears! This new novel displays author Lawrence Darmani’s story-tell skill that has endeared him to readers over the years.

248 pages

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Grief Child

Grief Child

It was midnight. The little village of Susa slept in darkness in the heart of the foest arms among the tall trees. The mahogany trees and sapales stood tall in the dark sky, providing a canopy over the village and deepening the density of the pitch-dark night.

190 pages

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