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She Would Be King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,511 ratings — published 2018
The House at Sugar Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,120 ratings — published 2008
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,179 ratings — published 2020
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,999 ratings — published 2009
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,364 ratings — published 2011
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,261 ratings — published 2017
Journey Without Maps (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,891 ratings — published 1936
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,995 ratings — published 2010
The Darling (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,661 ratings — published 2004
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.73 — 298 ratings — published 2013
Dream Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.88 — 745 ratings — published 2018
A Marker to Measure Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,660 ratings — published 2013
Allah Is Not Obliged (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,597 ratings — published 2000
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.27 — 226 ratings — published 2011
The Mask of Anarchy Updated Edition: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.95 — 124 ratings — published 1999
Charles Taylor and Liberia: Ambition and Atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.72 — 76 ratings — published 2011
Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.77 — 318 ratings — published 2005
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.69 — 189 ratings — published 2023
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,141 ratings — published 2020
Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: A History of the Liberian People Before 1800 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.62 — 13 ratings — published
Murder in the Cassava Patch (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.62 — 102 ratings — published 1968
Liberia & the Quest for Freedom (The Half That's Never Been Told Book 1)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.50 — 12 ratings — published
Why Nobody Knows When He Will Die, and Other Tales from Liberia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.16 — 43 ratings — published 1979
The Lazarus Effect (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.68 — 116 ratings — published 2011
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.70 — 470 ratings — published 2017
Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.36 — 14 ratings — published 1891
Konkai: Living Between Two Worlds (A Memoir)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2011
This Our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.93 — 29 ratings — published 2002
Monrovia Mon Amour: Travels in Liberia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.19 — 178 ratings — published 2012
An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published 2007
Beyond the Mango Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.74 — 104 ratings — published 1998
Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.45 — 42 ratings — published 2009
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,662,831 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,791,510 ratings — published 1997
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,031,278 ratings — published 1999
Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia (Rise and Shine)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.82 — 186 ratings — published 2002
Boy, Interrupted (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.42 — 38 ratings — published
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,405 ratings — published 2020
Land Of My Fathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.41 — 54 ratings — published 1999
Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.91 — 112 ratings — published 1938
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,001,236 ratings — published 1813
China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,923 ratings — published 2014
The Shadow of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,062 ratings — published 1998
The Shell Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,395 ratings — published 2001
The Rain and the Night (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 3.49 — 142 ratings — published 1979
The Savage Detectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,125 ratings — published 1998
Liberian Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1998
Liberia: The Quest for Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1987
Citizenship & Nationality in Liberia (The Half That Has Never Been Told Book 2)
by (shelved 2 times as liberia)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
“Life aboard ship was like living in paradise for my agile friend and he could have continued this way forever if he hadn't discovered a splendid new game. When the stevedores were loading or discharging the ship, Peanut would hop onto the edge of the hatch and urinate down on them. Oh what great fun he had, never thinking that they would object to what he was doing. At first they would try to catch him but he was far too agile for them. Not that I understood what they were saying but I knew enough to know that the stevedores were shouting Bassa swearwords at him. Frustrated they would flip him the bird as they climbed down into the hold, foiled again. What a wonderful time Peanut had! His safest refuge was on top of the Wheel House, where the stevedores couldn’t go. Sometimes as a place of last resort he would dive through the open porthole into my state room. He didn’t like the Engine Room, as an alternate route to safety, since it was too hot and noisy. Besides the engineers didn’t much like a monkey messing with their things and who knows what trouble he could get into down there?
Peanut, was wonderful entertainment when visitors came aboard. The Pan American flight attendants, they were called stewardesses back then, thought him adorable. I always had roasted peanuts for them to feed him, which he would pick and chew apart, littering the deck. The stewardess’s that came for my famous pizza parties always tried to pick him up and cuddle with him. Monkeys are unpredictable so I cautioned them to be careful but being such a cute little guy they seldom were. Ear rings were a favorite piece of jewelry to tug on, causing the ladies to scream. Most often he would let go but the wings above their pockets was another matter. Peanut would yank and pull on the insignia until it was his. I knew where he usually hid his loot and so could return their stuff but some of the stewardesses flew home without their wings.”
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Peanut, was wonderful entertainment when visitors came aboard. The Pan American flight attendants, they were called stewardesses back then, thought him adorable. I always had roasted peanuts for them to feed him, which he would pick and chew apart, littering the deck. The stewardess’s that came for my famous pizza parties always tried to pick him up and cuddle with him. Monkeys are unpredictable so I cautioned them to be careful but being such a cute little guy they seldom were. Ear rings were a favorite piece of jewelry to tug on, causing the ladies to scream. Most often he would let go but the wings above their pockets was another matter. Peanut would yank and pull on the insignia until it was his. I knew where he usually hid his loot and so could return their stuff but some of the stewardesses flew home without their wings.”
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“In the first twenty years after the War of Independence from the British, the percentage of black slaves in Virginia alone grew from 1% to 10% of the total population. The demand for free labor remained high in the South and the trading of slaves continued to flourish. From the 16th Century until the Civil War, it is estimated that a total of 12 million slaves were brought into America, of which two-thirds worked in the cotton industry under the harsh supervision of white overseers. For us today, it’s amazing that the Africans were thought of and treated as chattel, much the same as farm animals that just happened to be able to speak. The practice didn’t end until 1865, when the original eleven southern states that formed the Confederate States of America were defeated by the Union of Northern States.”
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