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Eduardo Kariuki is a conscientious forensic investigator who doubles as a climatologist. Working from Nairobi's Kayole area, he exposes white-collar crime with typical zeal, with some energy left over for the occasional quest into activism and social issues agitation.When his brother-in-law, Tito, a scientist at the Mrima Hill rare earth elements mine in Kwale, goes missing, Kariuki is not sure ... Read more

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Eduardo Kariuki is a conscientious forensic investigator who doubles as a climatologist. Working from Nairobi's Kayole area, he exposes white-collar crime with typical zeal, with some energy left over for the occasional quest into activism and social issues agitation.When his brother-in-law, Tito, a scientist at the Mrima Hill rare earth elements mine in Kwale, goes missing, Kariuki is not sure
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Wisdom Shall Die With You

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Eduardo Kariuki is conceived and born out of wedlock in Kenya. His German mother leaves the child with a foster mother.Whether the youngster will merely survive or thrive will depend on his desire to conquer the fears and doubts he faces, as a boy and then as a young man.Kariuki's search for meaning in life takes him from Nairobi to Frankfurt, then to Freiburg im Breisgau and Habkern, Switzerland. ... Read more

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Eduardo Kariuki is conceived and born out of wedlock in Kenya. His German mother leaves the child with a foster mother.Whether the youngster will merely survive or thrive will depend on his desire to conquer the fears and doubts he faces, as a boy and then as a young man.Kariuki's search for meaning in life takes him from Nairobi to Frankfurt, then to Freiburg im Breisgau and Habkern, Switzerland.
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BECOMING……….!

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A collection of autobiographical excerpts of a young Manyonyi growing up in Kenya.The short stories mark milestones as Manyonyi begins his life’s journey traversing early childhood to adolescence with memories of experiences, including his first day at school in the village and its environment, to moving into the city. Stories of Life at home with family, also feature highly.The setting is in a ... Read more

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A collection of autobiographical excerpts of a young Manyonyi growing up in Kenya.The short stories mark milestones as Manyonyi begins his life’s journey traversing early childhood to adolescence with memories of experiences, including his first day at school in the village and its environment, to moving into the city. Stories of Life at home with family, also feature highly.The setting is in a
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Nod

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The Husband is a gripping human story of love in its many guises, of losing everything and ultimately - in the small Midlands village of Glanmilish - of rediscovering the meaning of family.Marian Lescher's steady if predictable life in her native Chicago is upended when she is unexpectedly swept into a love affair with Irishman Daniel Lynch, a star medic renowned for his charismatic personality. ... Read more

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When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.Nobody who has once set foot ... Read more

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