Kabungo

2016-04-19 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Rolli
Release : 2016-04-19
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Download or read book Kabungo written by Rolli. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Beverly is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary best friend. Her name is Kabungo, and she lives in a cave on Main Street. No one knows where she comes from or who she really is, but life is never dull when Kabungo is around. Beverly tries to teach her friend about the ways of the modern world — the importance of teeth brushing, understanding strange holidays like Halloween, learning how to read. But Kabungo doesn’t take well to being civilized, and she can be stubborn, bossy, and plain infuriating. Sometimes Beverly gets so mad that she just wants to move to Cincinnati. Besides, Kabungo is a skittish cavegirl, and it takes a while to win her trust, even among Star City’s eccentric denizens, such as Mr. Gobshaw, who owns the local drug shop (“We have everything!”) where you’ll find the stuffed tigers right next to the breath mints. And there is Ms. VeDore, who seems to float as she walks around her decrepit mansion, and who throws the most amazing Halloween parties. Then, just when you least expect it, Kabungo will do something surprising (and when you’re best friends with a cavegirl, you’re not easily surprised). Like planning an unexpected birthday treat for Beverly (even though it isn’t actually her birthday) — at the city dump. In other words, Beverly learns that there are times for teaching, and times for tipping your head back and laughing. Hilarious and poignant, Kabungo is the most originally voiced and endearing middle-grade heroine since Pippi Longstocking. Accompanied by quirky line drawings by Milan Pavlovic, this is a gently humorous novel about friendship and community that raises for young readers deeper questions about finding beauty in unexpected places, accepting and celebrating differences, and what it really means to be civilized.

Kisses of the Virgin

2016-04-20 Family & Relationships

Author : Chibesa Emmanuel
Release : 2016-04-20
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 322/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Kisses of the Virgin written by Chibesa Emmanuel. This book was released on 2016-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes kisses of the virgin sensuous, irresistible and compelling to read? It is Surriana! At the age of thirty, Surriana Banda had done everything an extravagant beautiful and stunning woman would do with men except surrendering her virginity. She liked the struggles in houses, cars, and hotels where she kept her nice long legs tightly crossed and submitted to everything except that one thing. She had been seriously warned at her initiation ceremony to have nothing to do with sex-until her wedding day. But one bright summer afternoon, she bumped into Chinuel, and from that time onwards mysterious things began to happen to her until she was forced to give up that one thing, that one thing she treasured most. Worse still, she was imprisoned, nearly blackmailed, sexually abused, impregnated and compelled to unbearable pain and Sufferings.

The Lion that Didn't Roar

2016-10-06 Social Science

Author : Nigel Davidson
Release : 2016-10-06
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book The Lion that Didn't Roar written by Nigel Davidson. This book was released on 2016-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 it will be Australia’s turn to chair the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), an international organisation set up to regulate the trade in diamonds. Diamonds are a symbol of love, purchased to celebrate marriage, and it is therefore deeply ironic that the diamond trade has become linked with warfare and human rights violations committed in African producer countries such as Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and, more recently, Zimbabwe and Angola. In their quest for diamonds, or by using diamonds to purchase weapons, armed groups in these countries have engaged in recruiting child soldiers, amputating limbs, and committing rape and murder. In response to the problem, the international community, non-governmental organisations and key industry players such as De Beers combined forces to create the Kimberley Process in 2002. The KP uses an export certificate system to distinguish the legitimate rough diamond trade from so-called ‘blood diamonds’, which are also known as ‘conflict diamonds’. This book considers the extent to which the KP, supported by other agencies at the international and national levels, has been effective in achieving its mandate. In so doing, it presents an original model derived from the domain of regulatory theory, the Dual Networked Pyramid, as a means of describing the operation of the system and suggesting possible improvements that might be made to it.

Political Anthropology

1976 Anthropology

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Release : 1976
Genre : Anthropology
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