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Making the team by Erick Livumbazi Ngoda
KSh450When her parents separate and her mother has an accident, Sixteen year old Jessica has to become the family's provider. She juggles odd jobs and her passion for football, hoping that her talent as a football player will earn her a scholarship that will enable her to go back to school. But when her dream is finally within her reach, she finds herself entangled in a scandal and realizes that she may miss an incredible opportunity just because she is a girl. -
Extravaganza and other Stories
KSh560Kito waited for his friends at the toilet during lunch hour. He carried the uniforms for Saint Patrick in a carry bag. They would all change into checked short-sleeved blue shirts and dark  blue pairs of trousers. They would sneak through the opening he had cut around the chain link fence behind the toilets. Once outside nobody would suspect they were students from Mountain Peak School but they would still need to be cautious because they would have to trek for about ten minutes before they reached the bus stop. How did Kito pay for the wrong choices he made? What did he and his friends learn after landing in trouble because of poor decision-making and peer pressure? -
New Progressive Primary English Revised Edition 2024 Learner’s Book 5
KSh709‘New Progressive Primary English’ is a series specially written to provide practical experiences that support acquisition of language skills for the new Competency-Based Curriculum. Books in the series provide a range of activities that learners will find exciting and motivating. The activities are aimed at acquisition of the core competencies, values, and pertinent and contemporary issues (PCIs). -
The Last Laugh
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The Face of Destiny by Salome Marangu
KSh700Unveil the truth behind Sera’s mysterious murder in a thrilling collection of short stories. With a detective on a relentless quest for justice, expect unexpected twists, a bizarre love triangle, and deep societal themes. Laugh, reflect, and discover the power of destiny. -
Things Fall Apart
KSh990Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's stark, coolly ironic novel reshaped both African and world literature, and has sold over ten million copies in forty-five languages. This arresting parable of a proud but powerless man witnessing the ruin of his people begins Achebe's landmark trilogy of works chronicling the fate of one African community, continued in Arrow of God and No Longer at Ease. 'His courage and generosity are made manifest in the work' Toni Morrison 'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down' Nelson Mandela 'A great book, that bespeaks a great, brave, kind, human spirit' John Updike With an Introduction by Biyi Bandele -
Grain of Wheat (EAEP)
KSh848NGUGI WA THIONG'O is undoubtedly Kenya's most prolific writer. From the time he launched himself as a pioneer African writer with Weep Not, Child (1964), there was no stopping Ngugi. Weep Not, Child was quickly followed up by The River Between (1965) and A Grain of Wheat (1967), both of which confirmed Ngugi as a writer of great ambition. The publication of Petals of Blood (1977) and the pre-publication staging of the Gikuyu version of I Will Marry When I Want (a play), swiftly led to his detention without trial by Kenya's authorities. After detention, Ngugi issued Caaitani Mutharaba-ini, (Devil on the Cross —1982) and Matigari ma Njirungi (1986), a novel in Gikuyu. Ngugi is also a renowned playwright which such works as The Black Hermit (1968) and The Trial of Dedan Kimathi (1976), co-authored with Micere Githae Mugo. Besides novels and plays, he has also written volumes of essays and has published an anthology of short stories — Secret Lives (1963). All Ngugi's novels are published in the Peak Library. "A Grain of Wheat is about Kenya on the verge of independence. Africans and Europeans alike pause, in the lull between the fighting and the new world, to see what they have gained and lost. They examine their motives, and find them dubious, and their achievements, which often amount to very little. Mr. Ngugi writes well and has a real talent for portraying the African background!'
