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1	The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood more books like this by Helene Cooper (Read by) add to wishlist A haunting memoir of a war-torn childhood in Liberia, a deeply personal story and an examination of a violent and divided country. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.45! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge more books like this by William Powers add to wishlist Powers went to Liberia as an aid worker in 1999 and was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It's not long before Powers discovers how Liberia has become a Fourth World country--poor, environmentally looted, scarred by violence, and barely governed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Journey Without Maps more books like this by Graham Greene add to wishlist In 1936 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Vingananee and the Tree Toad more books like this by Verna Aardema add to wishlist Spider, Rat, Buck Deer, and Lion all live happily together on their farm--until the Vingananee comes and steals their food each night. No one can stop him, but little Tree Toad tries--and the dreadful Vingananee just may meet his match. Full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
5	Dear Master more books like this by Randall M Miller add to wishlist see all copies from $6.92!
6	This Our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia more books like this by Catherine Reef (Illustrator) add to wishlist An award-winning author presents a significant but relatively unexplored chapter in African-American history--the 1822 founding of the African country of Liberia by free blacks and former slaves from America. Drawing on diaries and letters, this account features period photographs and prints. see all copies from $5.10! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Liberia more books like this by Verna Aardema add to wishlist Koi inherits a kola tree after his father dies. Koi decides to see the world, so he picks the kola nuts and takes them with him to start his journey. On his way, he makes friends with a snake, some ants, and a crocodile, all of whom he saves by using the kola nuts. When he stumbles upon a village, his new friends help him with three important ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $82.36! \| first editions
8	Psychology of Literacy more books like this by Sylvia Scribner, Michael Cole add to wishlist see all copies from $3.97! new only from $19.26! \| first editions \| SVS
9	When God Says Go: The Amazing Story of a Slave's Daughter more books like this by Lorry Lutz, Sherwood Eliot Wirt (Foreword by) add to wishlist Mother Eliza Davis-George, the daughter of slaves, grew up in segregated Texas, where she took to heart the stories she had heard as a child in Sunday school. Empowered by her faith, she broke through barriers of sex, color, and status as she told the world about Jesus. This is the fascinating story of a gentle but unswerving Christian missionary, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.65! \| SVS
10	Journey Without Maps: 6 more books like this by Graham Greene add to wishlist White men were not particularly welcome in Liberia when Graham Greene made it the object of his first journey outside Europe. Drawn by the evident seediness of a republic founded for released slaves and, above all, by the darkness and mystery which Africa has represented for some people in their unconscious minds, he travelled with a chain of ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $179.05!
11	Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia more books like this by Won-Ldy Paye (Retold by), Margaret H Lippert (Retold by), Julie Paschkis (Illustrator) add to wishlist This retelling of a Liberian creation myth enjoins the reader to help put a body back together. Does the head attach to the belly? Where do the legs go? With full-color illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.33! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Red Dust on the Green Leaves more books like this by John Gay, Harrison Owen (Illustrator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $57.05! \| SVS
13	Why Leopard Has Spots: Dan Stories from Liberia more books like this by W Paye add to wishlist For generations, Dan stories from the western African nation of Liberia have been the core of family entertainment. Working in the rice fields, playing in the village and celebrating at community festivals are all opportunities for telling or hearing a good tale. Discover why these stories, engagingly retold by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert ... see all copies from $2.55! new only from $7.77!
14 view cover	Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia more books like this by Claude Andrew Clegg, III add to wishlist In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude ... see all copies from $11.38! new only from $26.54! \| SVS
15 view cover	Quest for the Lost Prince: Samuel Morris more books like this by Samuel Morris, Neta Jackson, Dave Jackson add to wishlist Jova, a seven-year-old Kru boy in Liberia and a captive slave of his people's enemy the Grebos, witnesses the dramatic conversion to Christianity of the Kru prince Kaboo and his subsequent disappearance; seven years later, in 1893, Jova sails to America to find Prince Kaboo and bring him back to rule. see all copies from $1.99!
16 view cover	Playing on the Mother-Ground: Cultural Routines for Children's Development more books like this by David F Lancy add to wishlist A vivid ethnographic description, the volume is augmented by anthropological material on children from dozens of non-Western societies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.24!
17	Liberia: The Quest for Democracy more books like this by J Gus Liebenow add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! first editions
18	Sammy Morris more books like this by Fern Neal Stocker add to wishlist Relates the story of an African boy who received Christ and traveled to America, where he served as a demonstration of the power of Christianity. At intervals in the text the reader finds a question followed by several possible answers, one or more of which may be correct. see all copies from $2.25!
19	A Land and Life Remembered: Americo-Liberian Folk Architecture more books like this by Svend E Holsoe, Max Belcher, Mr. Bernard L Herman add to wishlist see all copies from $17.50! first editions
20 view cover	Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family more books like this by Randall M Miller (Editor) add to wishlist ""Dear Master"" is a rare firsthand look at the values, self-perception, and private life of the black American slave. The fullest known record left by an American slave family, this collection of more than two hundred letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance--reveals the relationship of two generations of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Liberian Civil War more books like this by Mark Huband add to wishlist Just before Christmas 1989, a small group of armed fighters crossed a narrow river marking the frontier with Sierra Leone, and entered the West African state of Liberia. The civil war which followed plunged the African continent's oldest republic into a long and agonising nightmare, during which the country was torn apart and its people brutalised ... see all copies from $33.60! new only from $53.14! \| first editions
22 view cover	Liberia more books like this by Patricia M Levy add to wishlist Describes the geography, history, government, economy, people, lifestyle, religion, language, arts, leisure, festivals, and food of the West African nation of Liberia. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.78! \| SVS
23	Hinterland Liberia more books like this by Etta Becker-Donner add to wishlist see all copies from $5.20! new only from $9.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Darling CD more books like this by Russell Banks, Mary Beth Hurt (Read by) add to wishlist A major new novel from the author of "The Sweet Hereafter" follows an American woman in Liberia and her struggle to save endangered chimpanzees amidst the violence of civil unrest. Unabridged. 10 CDs. see all copies from $5.80! new only from $5.80!
25 view cover	United States Policy Towards Liberia, 1822 to 2003: Unintended Consequences more books like this by Lester S Hyman add to wishlist Hyman examines the complex and often troubled relations--economic, social, cultural, political, ideological, and military--between the United States and Liberia from the dawn of the 19th century to 2003 and sets forth a road map for improvement of U.S. policy. see all copies from $9.83! new only from $21.78! \| SVS

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