African Action

Chicago, 1954. When his father, Montrose, goes missing, 22-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his uncle George - publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide - and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite - heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’ ancestors - they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

Linus und Ralf brechen von Deutschland nach Afrika auf. Sie wollen einen Schwur einlösen, den sie als Kinder am Totenbett ihrer Mutter geleistet haben. Ralf, der Ältere, erwartet mit seiner Verlobten sein erstes Kind. Als selbstständiger Architekt hat er mit Fleiß und Verstand eine solide Existenz aufgebaut. Linus ist Single und schlägt sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durchs Leben. So unterschiedlich die beiden sind, so verbunden sind sie durch die gemeinsamen Jahre im Kinderheim und den Wunsch, mehr über ihre Mutter zu erfahren.

Existe un África para cazadores de leones, existe también en África para los que han vivido algún tiempo en ella, y que suelen describirla dando un poco más de importancia al hombre que la habita, mostrándolo no como un salvaje de lanza y escudo, sino como un bicho curioso del que pueden contar infinidad de anécdotas sobre sus costumbres y ocurrencias...

Fofo, a brave, little African girl, lives with her brothers and her strict aunt in the jungle. Fofo is tired of following her brothers around, and one day she decides to venture off by herself to swim in the natural pool at the foot of the mountain. As Fofo enjoys the refreshing spring water, she doesn’t realize she’s in danger. And then, on the bank, she hears the cry of an animal. She saves a baby lion being born, names him Angel, and carries the cub home

A fourteen-year-old slave. A supernatural event. A life filled with great purpose. Lula Darling is a fourteen-year-old slave growing up on a plantation in Natchez, Mississippi in 1854. After the untimely deaths of her father, and then brother, her perilous life could not seem to get any worse. Under the watchful eye of the slave owner and his father, an inventor, Lula, along with her mother, Ella Mae, are losing any and all hope of ever being free from the bondages and terrors of slavery. But one day, while hiding in fear in the slave owner's attic Lula makes a startling discovery that ...

After so many years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has the one thing she’s always wanted - but it came at too steep a price. Now the last surviving witchdoctor, she’s been left to pick up the shattered pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom plunged into chaos and a love that can never be. While Arrah returns to the tribal lands to search for survivors of the demons’ attack, her beloved Rudjek hunts down the remnants of the demon army - and uncovers a plot that would destroy what’s left of their world.

David Aspinall is a farm boy from the English countryside. Not content there, he heads to the city seeking adventure. After getting in trouble in London, he travels to South Africa, but soon finds himself enslaved to a cruel master. When he finally reaches the end of himself, he repents and receives God's forgiveness. But his challenges are not over yet. Injured and alone in the desert, he faces the danger of wild animals. Without food or water, he experiences God's providence and protection. Enjoy this classic tale of the prodigal coming home.

A kidnapped girl. A deadly human auction. One man against the traffickers. Sam Wick is the one the Government calls on to extract people out of the worst of the worst enemy places on earth. Where the government cannot and will not go, he will. There is no guarantee that he'll succeed every time but he doesn't have a choice or does he? What Readers are saying about Sam Wick's Adventures; ★★★★★ "One heck of an entertaining and intense ride... Fast, entertaining, suspenseful and action-packed… you will find yourself flying through and it will be hard to let it go!" - Amazon Review ...

Harrison Beck and his Uncle Nat are on the journey of a lifetime aboard the Safari Star - a luxurious steam train that will take them from Pretoria to the stunning Victoria Falls. Close encounters with the amazing animals and landscape of Southern Africa are adventure enough, but things get mysterious when a passenger is found dead inside a locked compartment. Is it just a terrible accident, or is something more suspicious afoot? It’s up to train detective Hal and his new friend Winston to find out.

Code Name Caribbean is about counter maritime-terrorism, a highly specialized form of counter-terrorism and the most difficult one of all. When a commercial vessel is taken over, hijacked by terrorists, you have a much more serious problem than with an aircraft standing on the apron. Aircrafts are actually quite easy to take back and is seen as “bread and butter” work for Special Forces. I explained the techniques on storming an aircraft in Code Name Wrangler, a book that is used by many SWAT Units as training material. Luckily, at the moment, maritime terrorist attacks are less than 1%...

"Questo libro mi ricorda la parte iniziale di Caro diario di Nanni Moretti. Là un uomo d'estate girava in Vespa per Roma deserta, e questo dava l'emozione di veder scorrere le immagini delle strade, le facciate delle case, il grande silenzio quotidiano, come se vedessimo e ascoltassimo tutto per la prima volta. In Avventure in Africa c'è la stessa emozione di veder scorrere le immagini della vita, come in un primo sguardo trasognato del mattino che riscatta tutte le esperienze di viaggio, sia quelle immaginate che quelle vissute.

After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji but also some nobles with magic ancestry. Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as strong and magical as they are. When Amari's mother forms an army of royals with newly awakened powers, Zélie fights to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.

كانت عالية تراقب هدوء الليل من شرفة غرفتها، كان كلّ شيءٍ حولها يلفه الظلام بأستاره السوداء الحالكة حين مزّق الصمت وقع أقدامٍ مسرعةٍ في الطريق..

Ajay's wish has come true—he's a news reporter at last. He and his friends Saif, Vinod, Yasmin and Jai even have their own newspaper: The Mumbai Sun. But money is tight—and they need a big story. So when Ajay sees a cash prize for a competition to be the first to find a meteor that has crashed to Earth in India, their very own space-race to Jaipur is on.

In the turbulent world of the 15th century, a young Chinese man is forced by false accusation to flee his home and country. After a hazardous voyage with the famous Treasure Fleet, he escapes into the newly discovered continent of Africa. Using his innate skills and diplomacy, he finds recognition, status, and love in a totally alien, but highly organized, society. Hundreds of years later, a newly married couple of archaeologists stumbles upon evidence of this man's quest in antiquity.

When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her.

Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, she’s forced to take on her least favourite kind of job – missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell’s undertow.

Stupsi spielt mit seinem Brüdern im Wald. Da kommen sie an ein Haus und Stupsi schleicht sich ganz leise hinein. Da sieht er im Fernseher Bilder von Tiere in Afrika, die er nicht kannte. Also beschloss er nach Afrika zu gehen. Was er erlebt hat könnt ihr hier anhören. Viel Spaß.

In this dramatic sequel to Admission, a Story Born of Africa, Adam Broadford’s continuing journey of transformation is profound, compelling, and life-changing. Deserting another call-up from the South African Army, and a stowaway on a Union-Castle ship bound from Cape Town to Southampton, Adam yells a promise back to Felicity, the love of his life, to return. Desperation, desire, and guilt plague him. On his adventures he seeks resolution from his unusually difficult past, encounters far-influencing people, but remains challenged by his own deceptions and betrayals.

When a meteor explodes over a snow-covered Russian industrial metropolis spreading a deadly virus that turns thousands of the city dwellers into the walking dead, Ramses Campbell—an African American martial arts instructor, and a rising HBO Sports star, who has come to Russia to teach seminars—must fight to survive. In this deathtrap of a city, Ramses joins a group of survivors of various nationalities: a Russian interpreter, an English hotel manager, a Serbian executive chef, a Swedish sex tourist, a German Catholic priest, a Turkish engineer, and a blind Chinese teenage girl. They ...