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The Lion’s Whisper
2018 CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature FinalistLeo and David, both fifteen years old, are neighbours who are divided by more than just a wall. When David unexpectedly reaches out to him, Leo hesitantly accepts and David soon becomes a secret brother, helping Leo overcome a paralysing fear from his past.
Leo embarks with David on a mission to root out the answer to a mystery that has tormented David for years. Their friendship is tested beyond the wire as bitterness and betrayal pitch their families, and ultimately the boys themselves, against each other.
Then a bloody military coup rips Leo’s world apart and he has to find courage he never had before and an ally. But after all the years of bitterness, can Leo afford to forgive and trust his family’s enemy?
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Ebony Girl
2018 CODE Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature FinalistSometimes, all you need to do is to face your fears with an ashen face and unblinking eyes.Not able to contain the tantrums thrown at her due to her ‘unusual’ skin colour, hair texture and height, Asabea’s parents do what they think is best for her — send her to a place where she will fit in. Asabea’s fury and sorrow deepens, not at those who taunt her but with her parents.Too angry to fight anymore, she finds solace in her grandmother and a sea of others who challenge her to defy her fears and see the world through a different lens.₵45.00Ebony Girl
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Between Sisters
When sixteen-year-old Gloria fails thirteen out of fifteen subjects on her final exams, her future looks bleak indeed. Her family’s resources are meager so the entire family is thrilled when a distant relative, Christine, offers to move Gloria north to Kumasi to look after her toddler son, Sam. In exchange, after two years, Christine will pay for Gloria to go to dressmaking school.
Life in Kumasi is more grand than anything Gloria has ever experienced. She joins a youth band at church — something that allows her to pursue her great love, singing — and Christine has even promised to teach her to read.
But Kumasi is also full of temptations — the owner of a popular clothing shop encourages her to buy clothes on credit, and the smooth-talking Dr. Kusi offers Gloria rides in his red sports car. Eventually Gloria is betrayed by the people around her and is disillusioned by her new life. But in the end she decides who she can trust, and draws her own considerable inner resources to put the bad experiences behind her.
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The Hard Decision
*Available from 25 March 2022
After waiting for many years, Papa Koto and Mma Asibi finally have a child. They are determined to make him a more useful person. How they choose to do it may make them end up stepping on toes. Will they go ahead with their plans?“A delicious read, a read-worthy first book, The Hard Decision by Jean-Philip Lawson is yet another evidence of the rejuvenation of literature in our homeland.” – Nana Awere Damoah, Author & Engineer
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Sister Nommo the Saviour
Age Range: 6 – 8 years
Paa Nao wanted his wife to give him a baby boy who would become a lawyer, doctor or an engineer. Nommo was the first child, though Maa Kuu later had boys. Paa Nao educated the boys but not Nommo his daughter, insisting that a girl’s place is in the kitchen. When disaster struck and Maa Kuu’s life was at stake, it was Nommo who, through her cleverness, saves her mother from death at the hands of a strange little man, after her professionally trained brothers have failed.₵18.00Sister Nommo the Saviour
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The Wizard of Asamang
In The Wizard of Asamang, Asare Konadu presents a lasting picture of Ghanian society in the rural area welded together by love, humored innocence and gaiety. The strange events and places in the hero’s young mind are recorded realistically combining inventive imagination with technical sills.
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A Woman in Her Prime (African Writers Series, AWS40)
A young woman makes that all-important rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. However, her early adult life is marred by childlessness in a society that places a great premium on children and motherhood as the ultimate mark of womanhood.
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Ordained by the Oracle (African Writers Series, AWS55)
Boateng, a prosperous trader in Elmina, has the beginnings of disbelief in the old customs. His wife dies suddenly and he is put through forty days and forty nights of rituals. The conflicting strains of emotion on social behavior are vividly shown by this practised writer.
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The ‘Coup’ Makers
Engaging, moving, and very effective, this is the diary of a thirty seven year old widow whose record of the coups through thirty years of independence remains as fresh and immediate as when the author first experienced them. Usually frank, it represents a vivid and convincing picture of the day to day suffering of the people in coups and recaptures the grim atmosphere of the hard and bitter struggle.
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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.
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The Step-Monster
Everyone knows stepmothers are bad, wicked and just plain evil. Buerki Puplampu cannot believe that her widowed father is getting remarried when her mother has not even been dead for long! She just knows that Naadu Nartey is wrong for her father. It isn’t even because Naadu is bigger than a hippo or because she laughs like a cow or has hair on her face and chest like a cavewoman. She just knows. Some people call that feeling intuition, some call it superstition, soem even say it’s a gift. Call it what you want but Buerki’s gut feelings have never failed her. She vows to do everything in her power to save her younger brother and herself from the fate she knows is awaiting them. They will not be maltreated or abused by this new woman. She will make sure of it.
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Taking A Stand (The Judacan Adventures 6)
When a secret is uncovered, Nagela is angry enough to want payback. She wants the offender to feel her anger and humiliation but is revenge her answer?
Dorm mate Joy, on the other hand, is doing all she can, to make a difference until she lets the feelings of others railroad her away from focus.
Both girls are taking a stand but for what? The girls are back…
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Back to School (The Judacan Adventures 5)
It is the stand of a brand new year and the commencement of the second term. The girls are excited to return to school (most of them anyway). They are red up; new classes to attend, extracurricular activities to engage in, seniors to outwit and teachers to please.
They can't wait to share all their holiday experiences with their mates; and who is the new girl in St. Frances Dorm 6?
Judacan girls are going 'back to school' and banking on an eventful term.
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Shadows of the Term (The Judacan Adventures 4)
The term is drawing to an ed. The Form 1 girls have to go through counseling to choose the right field of study. The rest of the school prepare for and take their end of term exam. As with everything at JUDACA, everyday is an adventure.
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Miss Fresher (The Judacan Adventures 3)
Joy loves her role as a lady in shining armour; ready to race in and save her dorm mate Diane from classroom tyranny. Or is she secretly worried? Freshers' Night is back on and St. Francis House is not have a walk in the park. Which house will emerge as the overall winner? And who will take the all important Ms. Fresher crown? The twists and turns continue at St. Jude's Academy for Girls.
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