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Biography, HistoryBATTLELINES: ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM AND POLITICS
It is a chronicle of plots and betrayals, of high-mindedness and pettiness; a documentation of history with revealing insights. It is an unusual account told by an engaging reporter. Racy and exciting, it is a book you will not put down in a hurry.
Biography, MemoirHARD CHOICES
“Hard Choices is a richly detailed and compelling chronicle of Clinton’s role in the foreign initiatives and crises that defined the first term of the Obama administration…it teems with small, entertaining details about her interactions with foreign leaders (Los Angeles Times).
Autobiography, BiographyONE WOMAN’S RACE
The first title which came to my mind for this book was: “Why I Ran”. But then, it had a ring of finality to it which I found inappropriate, especially given the fact that I was still running! The race has not yet ended.
A complete and definitive documentation of my engagement and active participation in Nigerian politics would be premature at this point; however, I felt that it was important to put down my reflections on the road so far covered. That is what this book seeks to do.
Biography, Novels, PoliticsBRING BACK OUR GIRLS
Bring Back Our Girls is an urgent and engrossing work of investigative journalism that unfolds across four continents, from the remote forests of northern Nigeria to the White House; from Khartoum safe houses to gilded hotel lobbies in the Swiss Alps. It plumbs the promise and peril of an era whose politics are fuelled by the power of hashtag advocacy – and at its centre stand some exceptionally courageous and resourceful young women.
Biography, MemoirSTEVE JOBS
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Biography, MemoirI AM MALALA (Paperback)
I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.
Biography, MemoirMANDELA: THE LIFE OF NELSON MANDELA 1918 – 2013
A fully illustrated life story of Nelson Mandela with a unique collection of photographs from throughout his life. There can’t be many people who have never heard of Nelson Mandela. He has become a household name, a name respected by people everywhere. Nelson Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela came from what most people would regard a poor background, yet his family were aristocrats among the Xhosa people of the Transkei in South Africa. From the time he was a boy he was destined, as he father before him had been, to become an adviser at the court of the Xhosa king, but no one could have predicted that young Rolihlahla would one day become an outlaw known as ‘The Black Pimpernel’ or a statesman of international standing – President Mandela.
- Biography, Memoir
I AM MALALA (Hardcover)
I Am Malala is the remarkable tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.