African Action

Half a Lion, a coming-of-age epic fantasy, follows the adventures of three siblings as they struggle for survival, embrace forbidden magic, and clash for thrones in the shadow of an enemy that threatens to drown their world in blood. The half-blood fights shamans and skinchangers, all while caring for an ailing mother and vowing to win an unwanted throne. Betrayed, hunted and alone, the exile dreams of revenge and must rely on the loyalty of sworn enemies to do so. The cripple has lost everything, but loss can be the deadliest of weapons wielded by the coldest of hearts. Amid poetry and ...

Now a guardian in training, Maya spends her days patching up veils with her father and cleaning up near-disasters like baby wormholes that her erratic powers create. But when Maya and her friends discover that something went terribly wrong during their journey to bring her father back to the human world, they are forced to return to The Dark and restore what they left behind, the one thing keeping the veil from falling: her father’s soul.

After two attempts on his life, Brody takes things personally. He tracks a ruthless Chinese poacher and his gang of cutthroats two hundred miles up the remote, crocodile-infested Tana River in deepest Africa. In this gripping thriller, Brody finds himself in the violent and dangerous world of ivory smuggling, where the stench of death lingers in the air. He battles treacherous terrain, hostile weather, unpredictable wildlife, and poachers who indiscriminately kill animals and local tribespeople. As Brody ventures further inland, he encounters a horrific scene: a kidnapped girl facing an ...

"Where are the lions?" Jack wonders when the Magic Tree House whisks him and his sister to the vast plains of Africa. Before he can find out, Annie starts to help hundreds of wildebeests cross a rushing river. Next they follow a honey of a bird and meet an awesome Masai warrior. Jack hopes any lions will just stay away. Jack is about to be very disappointed.

It's 1961, and young Ken Verrier is experiencing the turbulence of Ishmael and the guilt of his brother's death. His sudden decision to drop out of college and deal with his demons shocks his family, his friends, and especially his girlfriend, soon to have been his fiancée. His destination: Liberia - the richest country in Africa, both in monetary wealth and natural resources.

A fast paced military thriller. "It's time that we tried to work together," the Russian President told his UK counterpart through the handset. Strange times made for strange bedpartners the Prime Minister decided silently. "Yes," he finally agreed, wondering where this would lead. Alex Green is tasked to lead a near suicidal mission to South Africa in an attempt to open dialogue with a lost country, one of many nations that has disappeared to a virus-ravaged western world. In a journey that runs from Johannesburg to the Mozambique border, he first attempts to find it's now secretive ...

Fifteen-year-old Amadou counts the things that matter. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. This number is very important. The higher the number, the safer they are, because the bosses won't beat them. The higher the number, the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home to Moke and Auntie. Maybe. The problem is, Amadou doesn't know how much he and Seydou owe, and the bosses won't tell him.

Kaira Hansley can illusion herself into anyone she chooses. Bodyguard who means business? Sure. Cute little kid with pigtails? Absolutely. The Alliance Director himself? No sweat. The only face she doesn’t want to wear into public is her own. After three years of living off the grid, she’s now the most famous Magic in Boston. And her boyfriend is the most famous Natural. Exposing themselves has put Kaira and Graysen right in the path of a cold-blooded killer. Murders are sweeping the city, where distrust between Magics and Naturals has reached a boiling point. As Kaira, Graysen, and the...

Stanley's not the only flat one! When a flat skull is discovered in Africa, Stanley Lambchop decides to travel there with his brother, Arthur, and their father, George. Maybe studying the skull will give them clues to Stanley's flatness. But once in Africa, the Lambchops are in for more adventure than they bargained for. From lions to zebras to elephants, it's the safari of a lifetime!

Three women with completely different strengths each out to survive in a harsh world but which one will you relate to. Prepare to follow their story through seven countries on three continents to find out. Rachael ignores the struggle for equality and prefers total superiority over, as she sees it, the weaker male sex. “Equality got me a raised pension age but one of my two jobs sees me looking down on degraded men.” She’s lived alone but rich since her rock star parents were reported killed in a small plane crash in Africa. Her secret and hidden government-sponsored life is about to ...

The world of culinary magic is about to implode as the greatest threat to their secret existence is carried—well, dragged—into this delectable second installment of the Hex Kitchen series. Kidnapped by the very group meant to protect her, Kenzie finds herself in another cooking tournament. This time, though, the stakes are higher. Every meal she cooks could be her last. If she’s going to survive, she’ll need to do the one thing she swore she’d never do again. Use her magic to kill. Braxton is facing his own battle. Each step that brings him closer to Kenzie jeopardizes his family....

Ancient pyramids can be flat-out dangerous! Ever since Stanley was flattened by a bulletin board, there are places he can get to that no one else can. So when Stanley receives a letter from an archaeologist, he travels by airmail to Egypt to help find an ancient treasure deep in the heart of a great pyramid. But what if even the flattest boy on earth can't wriggle out of this dark tomb - and the terrible mess he finds himself in?

This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is filled with the spirit of adventure. Thrilled by rumors of a lost civilization, three Englishmen decide to travel to the heart of Africa with their Zulu guide where they meet with continual peril: an attack by a cruel warrior tribe, the scorch of underground volcanic fires, and an encounter with a huge species of ferocious black crab. Exhausted and depleted of supplies, the men at last arrive at a mysterious city in the highlands of the interior.

Following on from his bestselling novels A Year in the Wild and Back to the Bush, James Hendry returns to the setting of Sasekile Private Game Reserve for another tale that takes the listener behind the scenes with the MacNaughton brothers, Angus and Hugh. It is four and a half years since Angus’s last year in the wild when he was newly appointed to the position of head ranger at Sasekile. Much has happened in the interim.

Brody sticks his nose where it’s not wanted. A blood-crazed band of suicide mercenaries have a single-minded goal- ‘Kill as many foreign Israeli tourists as possible to draw the world’s attention to their cause.’ Only one man stands in their way. A desperate car chase through the coconut groves to thwart a massive explosion. Outnumbered, outgunned, and outmanned with the clock ticking and stakes higher than ever Brody must face his deadliest enemy yet. He needs his crew more than ever as he fights against these highly professionally trained Al Shabab Militia. This battle is more ...

Desperate to delay an impending attack by the indigenous people of Xidda, Tau and his queen craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and launch an all-out assault on her own capital city, where her sister is being propped up as the 'true' Queen of the Omehi. If the city can be taken, if Tsiora can reclaim her throne and reunite her people, then the Omehi might have a chance to survive the coming onslaught.

Sienna Duponte is a wallflower who decides to take a walk on the wild side for just a few days. She reasons that a little bit of harmless impersonation can't hurt, right? Her partner in crime, Jade, is eager to prod her along. The two embark on a lusty, scandalous adventure that brings them right to the doorsteps of the men ordered to hunt one of them. Drummond Barkclay doesn’t consider himself a man as much as he does an efficient dispenser of his inhumane duties. He goes in, gets the job done. That’s it. But one night, one mistake and the careful steps he’s crafted to achieve his ...

Deep within the Dark Continent of Africa, the dwindling population of wild Elephants is protected by law yet systematically harvested by poachers. The armed forces of Park Rangers are not enough to protect the ivory prongs from these giants of nature. A hundred years ago, the Great White Hunters were the predators. Now the region calls on one man to protect the elephants from virtual extinction … Tusk.

Sultan Asam -has always known that to rule a kingdom, treason and war are inevitable. He also knows what he has to lose. This goes beyond a kingdom. It goes to the safety of the ones he loves the most. His two sons, wife and Sultana as well as the child she carries. He knows that if he fails, his family will be in danger, this he cannot allow... Aasil- wants the throne that his cousin holds. He is willing to do anything to become Sultan and rule. To have what he wants, he must be sure to end not only his cousin; but any heirs he would leave behind. And he means to do so. Sultana Zingae- ...

As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another, and wrestling with a strong desire to get to know a third, his life is far from perfect, and it becomes all the more complicated when his troubled daughter resurfaces on the same day as a major job.