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Bookset: Pacesetters Series (50 titles)
Relive all the literary jobs of years gone by, by procuring this jumbo set of the famous, now-scarce, Pacesetters Series.
The Pacesetters Series were a collection of 130 novels written by African authors (mostly Nigerian, but there were also Ghanian, Kenyan and South African writers) for an African audience. It was 1977 when Macmillan decided to publish this low-cost paperback series – with publication mainly happening between 1979 and 1988.
They were very popular in the 1980s until the series disappeared in the 1990s. The covers were lovely and unique; a bit garish, and so 1980s with their African pop art, but there’s just something about them and how the colourful images portray what the novel is probably about. They are a testament to their time.
Exact titles will depend on availability.
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Bookset: African Writers Series (51 titles)
Relive all the literary joys of yesteryears by purchasing this jumbo set of all your favourite African Writers Series titles such as Things Fall Apart, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Weep Not Child, So Long A Letter, No Sweetness Here and many more!
Exact titles will vary depending on availability.
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Bookset: African Writers Series (25 titles)
Relive all the literary joys of yesteryears by purchasing this jumbo set of all your favourite African Writers Series titles such as Things Fall Apart, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Weep Not Child, So Long A Letter, No Sweetness Here and many more!
Exact titles will vary depending on availability.
₵1,490.00₵1,500.00Bookset: African Writers Series (25 titles)
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Peggy Oppong Bookset (14 books)
14 Peggy Oppong books including all her favourite titles such as No Roses for Sharon, Adventures of Cleopas, The Lemon Suitcase ,The Black Heel and
End of the Tunnel .
Angel of Death and Beneath the cover are not available as seen in picture.₵680.00₵700.00Peggy Oppong Bookset (14 books)
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Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes (Hardcover)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like it is in this surprisingly personal book, not only dishing out his signature, uninhibited opinions but also revealing the challenges he overcame in childhood as well as at ESPN, and who he really is when the cameras are off.
Stephen A. Smith has never been handed anything, nor was he an overnight success. Growing up poor in Queens, the son of Caribbean immigrants and the youngest of six children, he was a sports-obsessed kid who faced a number of struggles, from undiagnosed dyslexia to getting enough cereal to fill his bowl. As a basketball player at Winston-Salem State University, he got a glimmer of his true calling when he wrote a newspaper column arguing for the retirement of his own Hall of Fame coach, Clarence Gaines.
Smith hustled and rose up from a high school reporter at Daily News (New York) to a general sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1990s, before getting his own show at ESPN in 2005. After he was unceremoniously fired from the network in 2009, he became even more determined to fight for success. He got himself rehired two years later and, with his razor-sharp intelligence and fearless debate style, found his role on the show he was destined to star in: First Take, the network’s flagship morning program.
In Straight Shooter, Smith writes about the greatest highs and deepest lows of his life and career. He gives his thoughts on Skip Bayless, Ray Rice, Colin Kaepernick, the New York Knicks, the Dallas Cowboys, and former President Donald Trump. But he also pulls back the curtain and talks about life beyond the set, sharing authentic stories about his negligent father, his loving mother, being a father himself, his battle with life-threatening COVID-19, and what he really thinks about politics and social issues. He does it all with the same intelligence, humor, and charm that has made him a household name.
Provocative, moving, and eye-opening, this book is the perfect gift for lovers of sports, television, and anyone who likes their stories delivered straight to the heart.
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Book Set: Nana Awere Damoah Books (8 books)
The full set of Nana Awere Damoah’s 8 books is available now, including his new book Sebiticals Chapter X. Autographed.
Get the 8 books together for GHS 415 instead of GHS 435.
Books in this set
Excursions in My Mind
Through the Gates of Thought
Tales from Different Tails
I Speak of Ghana
Sebitically Speaking
Nsempiisms
Quotes by NAD
Sebiticals Chapter X
₵415.00₵435.00Book Set: Nana Awere Damoah Books (8 books)
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Folktale Book Set (5 books)
Including one comic.
A client remarked: “Can you believe my girl had never heard of these Ananse stories before [reading the set I bought from you?]”
Don’t let your children miss this important Ghanaian heritage.
Books in this set (5 books – may vary due to availability of titles)
Ananse and the Sticky Gum (comic)
Ananse’s Justice
Why The Dog Has a Hollow Stomach
Ananse and the Pot of Wisdom
The Contest and Other Spiderman Tales
₵130.00Folktale Book Set (5 books)
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I Speak of Ghana
It’s a rare person who can be both funny and wise at the same time. Yet that is exactly the way to describe Nana Awere Damoah’s writings in this small but compelling short story collection about contemporary life in Ghana. In it the reader will find Ghanaman in traffic, or Ghanawoman paying the corrupt policeman. Either way, one knows these are the words of a master story teller who handily blurs the lines between laughing so hard it makes one cry, or crying so hard it makes one laugh.
I Speak of Ghana is an honest journey of deft oration replete with the sounds (from the harmonious to the cacophonic), smells (including the pleasant and unpleasant), sights (from the eye-catching to the embarrassing), frustrations, triumphs and the mundane – everything that makes the Ghanaian experience finds its way into this book. Unlike the typical ranting about Ghanaian situations, Nana performs an insightful examination of the heart of the matter. Dissimilar to empty praise, Nana thoroughly embraces the issues that give us hope as people connected to Ghana. Narrated with humor, the book is Nana’s eloquence at its best.
₵60.00I Speak of Ghana
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Things Fall Apart (African Writers Series, AWS1)
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. 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.
Chinua Achebe’s stark novel reshaped both African and world literature. 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.
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The Dorm Challenge
Age Range: 9 years and above
One bad friend and one desperate friend.
Mercy could change their lives.
The problem is she doesn’t know it.
Mercy isn’t going to embarrass herself by speaking in a school competition just so her House can win the Dorm Cup.
No way!
There are better things she could do− like hanging out with her ultra-cool buddy Perry.
But when she is thrust into the Dorm Challenge she discovers that the prize for speaking up is more precious than a trophy. And the prize for listening properly can mean more than anything in the world.
₵45.00The Dorm Challenge
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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers Series, AWS43)
A railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei Armah into the limelight. The novel is generally a satirical attack on the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and the period immediately after independence in the 1960s. It is often claimed to rank with Things Fall Apart as one of the high points of post-colonial African Literature.₵60.00 -
Rattling in the Closet
Suitable for reading by children above age 9, teenagers and young adults
It’s election term in St Felice and there is a tight race for prefects’ positions. Fun-loving Mercy is set to form a winning team with her best buddy Perry. That’s the plan –until the “phen-aah-menal” Salvina springs into the picture. Suddenly, no one in St Felice is certain of anything anymore.
Who is this girl, Salvina, anyway? Can Mercy and her friends afford to watch her trample on their dreams? Torn between truth and lies, how far will Mercy go to protect her hopes, her best friend, and her own carefully kept secret?
₵45.00Rattling in the Closet
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Crossroads at Ankobea
John Blankson has just finished his studies at the university. Towards the end of his course he had come to a turning point in his life: he had decided to live from that time on under the direction of Jesus.
When he leaves the campus for Ankobea, he has no idea that he is to be the next chief; but his uncle, Nana Kwesi Mensah III, had died and John discovers he has been chosen to succeed him.
How would this university graduate, a young Christian, fare as a traditional chief? How would the demands of traditional customary practices affect his Christian faith? Crossroads at Ankobea illustrates the struggles entailed in any effort to wipe out superstition from an African society.
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Prejudice
The story of the marriage of Mercy Owusu and her husband is told by one of Ghana’s humorous writers, Asare Konadu, under a pseudonym used for his light-hearted novels.
A bestseller, Prejudice is one of the most starkly moving parables ever written of the forces that shape or mar many marriages of today – patience, determination, thoughtfulness, quarrels, nagging, relations with in-laws, etc.
Beginning with a tiny incident between the couple, it ends by being as deep and as captivating as love itself.
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Olivia
Age Range: 8 years and aboveHaving his dream of becoming an athlete shattered, Mr. Essel is determined to have Olivia pursue a career that wouldn’t taint his family’s name.
Olivia –young, adventurous and headstrong, is convinced that life is worth nothing without fulfilling her passion.
Unfortunately, her desire to prove a point by following her dream hits a feverish pitch. Still hopeful, how will she come out of the sinking-sand she finds herself in?
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Multiplication (Little Sage Activity Book)
Age Range: 3 – 6 years
Little Sage Activity Books are designed to start children on the right path to a lifetime of reading, counting and writing.
The books are designed to be engaging and to hold the short attention span characterised by children of this age group.
Research has shown that children learn faster and well when they are enjoying themselves.
We reward children with stickers not just for a completed right answer but for effort; this is to encourage teamwork and build confidence, necessary for the journey through life.
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First Term Surprises (Senior High School Days #1)
Kukua can’t believe what she sees when she goes to the internet café to check her BECE results. Aggregate 14? What happened to the Ten Ones she worked hard for?
And when the posting arrive and she realizes she’s been sent to her third-choice school, she feels completely devastated. Where is this Eternity Senior High School, anyway?
But when courage overrides frustration, Kukua packs reluctantly and arrives at Eternity, the school on the hill along the beach road.
It is here that a series of surprises welcome her throughout the first term.
The biggest surprise of all is Samira, the girl Kukua meets who has a bigger-than-life story. Can a baby be thrown away at birth and still manage to grow up and enter senior high school?
Surely, first term in the senior high school is full of surprises!
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Third Term Challenges (Senior High School Days #3)
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.
In the midst of studying hard for the impending examination, how does Samira handle the appearance of a strange woman who claims to be her long-lost and forgotten biological mother? Now Samira is afraid and worried. “I dreamt that the woman kidnapped me and placed me in a huge castle . . .”
Will her dreadful dream become a reality, since the strange woman is not about to forgo her quest to find her daughter? These are challenging times in senor high school. Kukua and Samira experience their share of tough moments and learn how to stand the difficult moments in school.
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The Return of the Falcon
Drobonso stands at the crossroads. The paramountcy and the chief priest, custodian of the traditional and cultural customs of the state are entangled.
The emerging Christian churches misconstrue the reasons for enactment and consolidation of these ancestral relics.
In the ensuing struggle, the writer presents an exposition on the rather “Primitive” values of our tradition and the effect of modernization on our society.
The narrator explores memories and engages the reader in dialogue.
₵32.00The Return of the Falcon
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Moses and the Gunman (Pacesetters)
Cries of ‘Bang! Bang!’, ‘Get em up!’ and ‘Everybody freeze!’ filled the air.
Suddenly Dorm 3 was full of would-be cowboys, gangsters and cops.
Only the irrepressible Moses and his friends could make a day of work experience into an adventure with an unlikely gunman.
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Angel of Death (Pacesetters)
Zak Biko is a tall good-looking black South African, born in the township of Soweto, who has become internationally famous for his prowess as an ace detective with the FBI in New York City. His involvement with the ‘Angel of Death’ begins late one stormy night when his Mercedes stalls outside a darkened, lonely house and the silence is broken by the terrified scream of a young girl.
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Remember Death (Pacesetters)
Rango will stop at nothing to make money, live in London, and have a good life. He becomes involved with Laxman, the unscrupulous importer of chemicals, and out-of-date chemicals which will affect the living of thousands of coffee farmers pour into the country. When it seems that they are about to be unmasked, Rango recruits a young factory worker to blow up the Dar es Salaam chemicals factory. Malleko finds himself in an unhappy position. Whatever he does will lead to his death.
₵75.00Remember Death (Pacesetters)
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Second Term Expectations (Senior High School Days #2)
In the second term, Kukua and her mates run into several experiences that blow their minds away. Did you ever hear about a Virgins’ Club? And why is Samira about to be sent home at the beginning of term?
Enter Miss Kudjo’s Literature class for excitement. But don’t mess with Mr. Bayo, the senior housemaster of Sabanna. Ask the three students why Mr. Bayo sees to it that they are suspended for one term.
Kukua never thougt that examination fever can cause her to do what she does to make Mr. Binka punish her severely.
Second term at Eternity Senior High School turns out to be highly eventful, with lots of expectations to pursue.
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A Sense of Savannah: Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana
Caution: For fear of emitting loud, embarrassing laughs, do not read this book in public.
When Kofi Akpabli was posted to the northern border town of Paga to do his national service, he thought it was just going to be another ‘national suffering’. But when he encountered love at first sight with the landscape and the people, he was soon to realise that something close to destiny tied him to the place.
The author was welcomed to a world refreshingly different from the back streets of Accra and Cape Coast. He discovered the smell of dawadawa, the taste of pito and the mystery of border towns. Over a period of seven years, Kofi criss-crossed the Upper East, Upper West and the Northern Regions.
His real life adventures have been published in a cross-section of Ghanaian newspapers. By popular request, here comes A Sense of Savannah, a witty collection of travel tales that best express the character of Ghana’s savannah setting. While the entertaining narratives are guaranteed to interest a wide range of readers, what makes A Sense of Savannah worth reading is how the author generously dishes out well-researched facts and humour in equal measure.
As story after story shows, Kofi is always on the road:
– In Wa, he is ‘arrested’ and forced to drink beer without end on a Sunday morning
– In Bolgatanga, his well-shirted body gets sprayed with goat urine from the top of a bus
– In Tamale, during curfew hours and against the background of Wangara music, he spends the night on hard, cold asphalt
– And on a busy market day in Navrongo, he is told, ‘you have no conscience!’
Relax, grab a seat and let A Sense of Savannah drive you through the rather interesting northern half of Ghana.
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In the Company of Men
Harper’s Bazaar: Best Book of the Year
Boston Globe: Best Book of the Year
Ms. Magazine: Best Feminist Book of the Year
Words Without Borders: Best Translated Book of the YearDrawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity’s place in the world.
Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer’s potions nor the medical team’s treatments could cure. Compounding the family’s grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys’ father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.
In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future.
Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.
₵85.00In the Company of Men
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The Heritage: A Story to Remember
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.
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Junior African Writers Series Bookset Levels 1 – 2 (10 titles)
Develop literacy skills in your 8-15 year olds with exciting and engaging books for all reading levels.
The sentence structure and vocabulary has been carefully constructed to suit your students experience and age so that as they grow, so do their literacy abilities.
Titles in this set include titles such as (likely to change due to availability of titles):
Taxi to Johannesburg — Matlakala Bopape and Peta Constable (Level 1)
The Big Fight — Michael Cullup (Level 1)
The Frightened Thief — Amu Djoleto (Level 1)
The Midnight Caller — Anthony Umelo (Level 2)
The Hyena Valley — The Hyena Valley (Level 2)
The Secret of Nkwe Hill — Marcus Khama ter Haar (Level 2)
The Smile Thief — Fatou Keita (Level 2)
The Magic Pool — Gaele Mogwe (Level 2)
Happy the Street Child — F.M. Mlekwa (Level 2)
Kodua’s Ark — Yaw Ababio Boateng (Level 3)
The Ashanti Golden Stool — Ayebia Ribeiro-Ayeh (Level 3)
The Haunted Taxi Driver — Kofi Sekyi (Level 3)
The Secret Valley — Mike Sadler (Level 4)
…and many more!
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