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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In her 2001 debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Mozambique and her own country slid down the violent path toward an... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Staff Pick In Scribbling the Cat, Fuller forsakes the oblique approach of her bestselling debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, and tackles the Rhodesian War head-on. Visiting her parents in Zambia, she meets a veteran of the all-white Rhodesian Light Infantry... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Hailed by reviewers as powerful, haunting and a tour de force of personal journalism, When A Crocodile Eats the Sun is the unforgettable story of one man's struggle to discover his past and come to terms with his present. Award winning author and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zimbabwe: Years of Hope and Despair by Philip Barclay Publisher Comments Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. British diplomat Philip Barclay witnessed the downfall of what used to be Africa's finest country, culminating in the tumultuous events of 2008 when Zimbabwe's people voted against Robert Mugabe. But their... (read more) Your price: $18.50 New - Trade Paper
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Don?t Let?s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller?s endearing ability to find laughter... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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House of Stone: The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments Blue mountains, golden fields, gin and tonics on the terrace--once it had seemed the most idyllic place on earth. But by August 2002, Marondera, in eastern Zimbabwe, had been turned into a bloody battleground, the center of a violent campaign. One bright... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments The best-selling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight details her unique friendship with a banana farmer, one of her parents' neighbors in Zambia, a white African, veteran of the Rhodesian war, and born-again Christian, and their mutual odyssey... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm by Lauren St John Publisher Comments Set against the backdrop of the Rhodesian civil war, St. John's memoir of growing up on a farm and game preserve in the 1970s deftly conjures up the smells and sounds of the African bush and the era's climate of unashamed racism and feverish patriotism.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm by Lauren St John Publisher Comments This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . . In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa by Wendy Kann Publisher Comments In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister’s tragic death prompts a woman’s unbidden journey into her turbulent African past. A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mugabe by Martin Meredith Publisher Comments Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally the defiant white prime... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa by Wendy Kann Publisher Comments In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Douglas Rogers Publisher Comments Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit. Born and raised in Zimbabwe... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the Dark Forests of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe (Social History of Africa,) by Jocelyn Alexander Publisher Comments Violence has powerfully shaped the history of Matabeleland from the 1890s to the 1980s, and silence has surrounded the history of this region of Zimbabwe, excluding it from national memory. This text aims to break the silence and redress the imbalance of... (read more) Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mugabe: Teacher, Revolutionary, Tyrant by Andrew Norman Publisher Comments A former guerrilla leader who headed the resistance movement against white minority rule, Robert Mugabe was swept to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 on a tide of national euphoria with promises of peace, prosperity, and racial harmony. He then proceeded to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments In 2008, memoirist and journalist Peter Godwin secretly returned to his native Zimbabwe after its notoriously tyrannical leader, Robert Mugabe, lost an election. The decision was severely risky--foreign journalists had been banned to prevent the world... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin Synopsis Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a government-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa by Peter Godwin Publisher Comments Traces how the author routinely traveled between his Manhattan home to Zimbabwe to check on his aging parents, visits during which he witnessed the African region's dramatic descent into a social and political turmoil that eventually revealed to the... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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