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BOOKS

MEMOIRS	ETHIOPIA
	An Ethiopian Odyssey by Annette Allen	By the age of nine, Annette Allen had been to five different schools, trailing behind her father, an itinerant aeronautical engineer. In Ethiopia, she sat beside princesses at school whilst witnessing heart-breaking poverty; falling in love with the complex people and magnificent scenery. After apartheid South Africa, she returned to middle class life in Britain. But after a dream she had in April 2000, transporting her back to the heat and drought of Ethiopia, she decided to go back. Little did she know that the 25,000 mile quest would reveal how interconnected everything was.
	In Ethiopia With a Mule by Dervla Murphy	The story of this prolific travel writer’s extensive journey through Ethiopia from Addis Ababa to Eritrea, mostly on foot and by mule.
	Notes from the Hyena’s Belly by Nega Mezlekia	Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena’s Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the 1970s.
	Held at a distance - a rediscovery of Ethiopia by Rebecca Haile	Rebecca Haile lived in Ethiopia until she was 11 years old. When the Emperor was deposed by a military coup, her father was shot. Barely surviving, he escaped with his family and settled in Minnesota where they struggled with the strain of their changed circumstances. This book brings into focus the consequences of political upheaval in Ethiopia.
	There is no me without you by Melissa Fay Greene	Melissa Fay Greene documents the tragic lives of the children of Ethiopian AIDS victims. Greene focuses on the efforts of Haregewoin Teferra and her orphanage while chronicling how the Ethiopian government and much of the world ignore these innocent children.
	Breafast in Hell - A doctor’s experiences of the Ethiopian famine by Myles Harris	This is an Australian doctor’s account of his four months working for the Red Cross in Ethiopia during 1984 when the famine there had reached the world’s attention. Harris vividly portrays frustration with inadequate living conditions, bureaucratic inefficiency and mismanagement, and politically motivated activities that contribute to starvation.
	The hospital by the river by Catherine Hamlin	Gynecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin established a midwifery school in Ethiopia in 1959. Through this work thousands of women have been able to resume a normal existence after living as outcasts. They dedicated their lives to women suffering the catastrophic effects of obstructed labor - a problem easily dealt with in the developed world, but disastrous without medical intervention. The awful injuries that such labor produces are called fistulae, and until the Hamlins began their work in Ethiopia, fistula sufferers were neglected and forgotten - a vast group of women facing a lifetime of incapacity and degradation.
	Surrender or Starve - Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan,Somalia and Eritrea by Robert D. Kaplan AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. This book is available in Spanish under the title: Rendicion o hambre: Viajes por Etiopia, Sudan, Somalia y Eritrea.
	The scent of eucalyptus: a missionary childhood in Ethiopia by Daniel Coleman	A pink-skinned, fair-haired child of Canadian missionary parents, Daniel Coleman grew up with an ambivalent relationship to the country of his birth. He was clearly different from his Ethiopian playmates, but because he was born there and knew no other home, he was not completely foreign. Like the eucalyptus, a tree imported to Ethiopia from Australia in the late 19th century to solve a firewood shortage, he and his missionary family were naturalized transplants.
	The Zanzibar Chest by Aidan Hartley	Hartley, a journalist and British subject with four generations of colonial administrators in the family, offers a startlingly refreshing perspective on the political, social, and cultural impact of British colonialism in Africa and Arabia. The son of a foreign service officer, Hartley was raised in East Africa and educated in British prep schools. As a journalist, he traveled the war circuit through Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bosnia, and other hot spots.
	Tiempo Etiope by Luz Dominguez	The desire of this book is to change the view about Ethiopia, and finally about other cultures, outcast because they are unknown. It’s what we ignore what doesn’t let us move forward in the journey of life. In these days in which everything is tinted by the global idea, it’s important to live in the Ethiopian time, because the Abyssinian empire keeps its calendar and in this way the year has 13 months. In this extra month that Ethiopians enjoy is what we Europeans lack to expand the view and to be more generous with our hands and our ideas. ONLY IN SPANISH
	AFRICA
	The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	This memoir, written by a native Darfuri translator who, after escaping the massacre of his village by the genocidal Janjaweed, returned to work with reporters and UN investigators in the riskiest of situations. Taking readers far from their comfort zones, Hari charts the horrific landscape of genocide in the stories of refugee camp survivors. Available in Spanish as El traductor.
	Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	By age 6, Waris Dirie was herding her family’s sheep and goats, fending off hyenas and wild dogs as the family carved a path through Africa. She was just twice that age when she ran off into the vast furnace of the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man. Traveling for days without food and water, she made her way to Mogadishu and later to London as a servant to her uncle, the Somalian ambassador. There she wrestled with culture shock and got her first taste of the modeling life that eventually brought her into the public eye. Dirie is resilient, having survived drought, hunger, and the ritual female genital mutilation that marks a step toward womanhood among some traditional Moslems but, argue critics, steals or ruins many girls’ lives. Also available in Spanish under the title “Flor del Desierto”.
	AMHARIC
	Colloquial Amharic by Davis Appleyard	Colloquial Amharic is easy to use and completely up to date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Amharic. No prior knowledge of the language is required.
	Amharic Basic Course by Foreign Service Institute	This is one of the courses produced for US Foreign Service personnel based on courses produced during World War II by the American Council of Learned Societies when the US needed materials that would teach languages to soldiers fast.
	Amharic the EZ Way and Amharic 101 to 104 by Shining Star Multimedia	Amharic the EZ way is a stand alone program that will teach you over two thousand important and often used Amharic phrases and words. It is a very simple and straight to the point program. While Amharic 101 to 104 will teach you Amharic in great detail and depth. It assumes no prior knowledge of the Amharic language and it is suitable for all ages. It will teach you the alphabet, vocabulary, reading and grammar and there is also an additional workbook that teaches how to write in Feedel.
	Let’s Speak Amharic by the NALRC	As the title indicates, the text invites students from the very beginning to communicate meaningfully in Amharic and at the same time understand better the daily life and attitudes of Amharic-speaking people. Students, who complete this book will master the basic vocabulary, functions, and structures of the Amharic language. There is companion audio CD for the book. Mail order only.
	Amharic for Foreign beginners by Alem Eshetu	This is a situation-based text for beginners. It starts with a brief introduction about the Amharic language. This is followed by Amharic characters. Each unit is organized as follows: dialogue, expressions and vocabulary items, grammar, exercises, and cultural considerations. The dialogues focus on different everyday situations. Then the expressions and vocabulary items relating to the situations are presented. The grammar sections discuss the basic grammatical aspects of the language and present various examples.
	Amharic Ethiopian Script: Lakech One by Zewditu Fesseha	Amharic is a Semitic language that has been used for centuries. Ethiopia is one of the oldest nation in the world and its Alphabe is used for documenting the old Ethiopian civilization. The Laqech-one Amharic script helps all those who are interested in learning Amharic.
	Talk Now! Learn Amharic by Euro Talk Interactive	Designed for newcomers to the language, Talk Now! is a method to access a wealth of comprehensive fundamental vocabulary and accurate pronunciation in one user-friendly plan packed with useful words, a picture dictionary, and quizzes. Anyone over 10 years of age will find the program indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. Very basic, for beginners only.
	Lonely Planet Ethiopian Amharic Phrasebook by Tilahun Kebede	Useful phrasebook for those with no previous knowledge of the language. It is intended for foreign travelers to Ethiopia and not for Ethiopians who live abroad. The book is pedagogically constructed and you can quickly find what you’re looking for. As a tourist you get a good insight of the country culture and social behavior.
	Simple Amharic for Adoptive Families by Amy Kendall (book + CD)	Created by an adoptive mom in the great hope of helping adoptive families connect with the new child in their lives. The book contains approximately 250 translated words and phrases that are recommended most by families who have previously adopted internationally. In addition to the translations, the words and phrases are written in an easy to follow phonetic form. Professionally recorded CDs accompany each book so that families can hear and practice the new language before they welcome their child home.
	Learn the Amharic Alphabet! by Nigat Tadesse	The book has pictures giving you the ability to color and to tear and share pages. You will also have the ability to practice writing Amharic alphabet plus word exercises. Amharic pronunciations are included in the book in English. The educational workbook includes all the essential skills such as reading, writing and fine motor skills.
	Our first Amharic words by Stacy Bellward	Our First Amharic Words has 75 Amharic words transliterated for easy pronunciation. Each word label includes the transliteration, English and Amharic language script called “Fidel”.
	Ge’ez Activity Book by Adda Tewolde	Ge’ez Fidel is used as the writing system for key languages in Eritrea and Ethiopia including Amharic. This book is intended to be an activity book for anyone learning how to read and write fidel.
	Abgd Ethiopian Alphabet : Amharic-English for Beginners by Gebregeorgis Yohannes and Robert Gutierrez	A book of pictures with the name of the object in both English and Amharic. Includes phonetic pronunciation of Amharic words. Useful for beginners in the language.
	MY-Amharic CD by MY-Media Engineering & Trading Plc.	MyAmharic is designed to make learning fun for children. In addition to children, adults may found this software helpful as a starting point to learn the Amharic language
	CRE Amharic from English by Dr. Bob Boland	Practice of basic Amharic with creative learning exercise and a 30 minute audio, in about a day. (FREE Text Download)
	Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and Principles by Ayele Bekerie	This is a book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge’ez), an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide array of knowledge, including languages. In this study, Ayele Bekerie argues that Ethiopic is a component of the African knowledge systems and one of the major contributions made by Africans to world history and cultures.
	Concise Amharic Dictionary by Wolf Leslau	Students of Amharic as well as visitors to Ethiopia and foreign workers will benefit from this concise dictionary with phonetic transcriptions that allow for its use by those unfamiliar with Amharic script.
	Advanced Amharic Lexicon: A Supplement to Concise Amharic-English Dictionaries by Girma Getahun	An Amharic to English supplement for current dictionaries, providing the advanced student of Amharic with entries for rare, archaic and idiomatic expressions.
	Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa by Saki Mafundikwa	Afrikan alphabets have a rich cultural and artistic history and many continue to be in current use today. African Alphabets presents a wealth of highly graphical and attractive illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent and the Diaspora are included, analyzed and illustrated: the scripts of the West Africans - Mende, Vai, Nsibidi, Bamum and the Somali, and Ethiopian scripts. Other alphabets, syllabaries, paintings, pictographs, ideographs, and symbols are compared and contrasted.
	ADOPTION
	Weaving a family: untangling race and adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman	Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all—race, family, and adoption—within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood.
	Love in the driest season: a family memoir by Neely Tucker	When veteran reporter Neely Tucker, a white man from Mississippi, came to Zimbabwe, his goal was to report on the country’s political meltdown. But when a doctor at an orphanage forced him and his black wife to take home an infant abandoned at birth in order to save its life, their lives swiftly focused around adopting that infant.
	Faces of Layla - A journey through Ethiopian adoption	Faces of Layla, a book of stunning photographs of children at Layla House orphanage in Ethiopia by Emma Dodge Hanson, foreword by Melissa Fay Greene and text by Jennifer Armstrong. Emma Dodge Hanson captures the lives of the children at Layla House.
	I’m chocolate, you’re vanilla: raising healthy black and biracial children in a race conscious world by Marguerite Wright	Young black and biracial children are unable to understand racial prejudice. In fact, developmentally they are incapable of understanding the concept of race.A child’s concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical even changeable and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding the mature concepts surrounding race and racism. This essential guide for parents and teachers of Black children, offers clear, well-grounded advice of the things children need to know about race to build self-esteem.
	Black Baby, White Hands: A View fron the Crib by Jaiya John	July 15, 1968, a black baby becomes perhaps the first in the history of New Mexico to be adopted by a white family. Here is a brazenly honest autobiographical journey through the mind and heart of that child, a true story for the ages. BLACK BABY, WHITE HANDS, is a poetic, lyrical waterfall of jazz splashing over the rocks of pain, love and the honoring of family. Magically, this book finds a way to sing as it cries, and to exude compassion even as it dispels well-entrenched myths.
	HAIR
	Kinki Kreations: A Parent’s Guide to Natural Black Hair Care for Kids by Jena Renee Williams	Kinki Kreations offers step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions for styles that can be created in less than fifteen minutes. This innovative handbook reveals expert techniques for crowning little heads with afros, braids, cornrows, twists, and a variety of other all-natural styles. Tips for proper shampooing, caring for newborns’ hair, and finding the right salon are included too.
	It’s All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children’s Hair by Michele N-K Collison	Finally, there’s a lifeline for those who are desperately seeking help in styling their Black children’s hair. Learn the tricks and techniques for today’s most popular hairstyles with the easy-to-follow steps found in It’s All Good Hair. It features hair-care and styling tips from a variety of experts, and you’ll learn all the secrets to braiding, relaxing, and locking, as well as discover many other creative styling ideas.
	Kids Talk Hair: An Instruction Book for Grown-Ups & Kids by Pamela Ferrel	Kids Talk Hair is a full color instruction book that explains how to care for newborns to teenagers natural hair. It’s fun, easy-to-read and written for both grown-ups and kids. The righthand pages are for grown-ups and most of the lefthand pages are for kids.
	Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana Bird and Lori Tharps	In this entertaining and concise survey, Byrd and Tharps revel in the social, cultural and economic significance of African-American hair from 1400 to the present.
	Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women by Noliwe M. Rooks	Rooks takes an interesting look at the social and political implications that hair has held for African American women. The six chapters discuss hair and its connection to black pride, race, advertising, gender, and women’s magazines. She has used advertisements from different periods to trace representations of hair, which she then analyzes to show the political implications for women. Rooks demonstrates that Western definitions of beauty are often not endorsed by African American women.
	400 Years Without a Comb: The Untold Story by Willie L. Morrow	400 Years Without a Comb studies the effect the denial of sufficient hair care tools had on African slaves in America. Willie Morrow has written more than 5 books and created more than 20 videos on barbering, styling, and the history of Black hair. This book locates the origin of the good hair/bad hair argument in the days of and following slavery.
	Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories by Pamela Johnson	Ranging from the shaving of newborns to the coiffing of the dead, from the anecdotal to the scholarly, and from antebellum America to contemporary Africa, this remarkable array of writings and images illuminates black women’s hair and its cultural meaning. Embracing all types of hair whether it’s relaxed, worn in an Afro, has extensions woven in, is twisted into dreads or shaven off altogether the authors urge readers to respond to their own particular hair without judgment and to view it as an essential part of their personal space.
	RACE
	Nappy: Growing Up Black and Female in America by Aliona L. Gibson	As an eloquent rendering of the experiences of black women coming of age in America, Gibson’s memoirs strike to the heart of a generation in transition and resonate with its wit and its troubles. Using her personal experiences, Gibson examines how American standards of beauty affect women of color and their struggles for self-acceptance.
	Don’t play in the sun: One’s woman journey through the color complex by Marita Golden	Golden paints an intimate self-portrait of her life as a dark-complexioned black woman and invites readers to take a behind-the-scenes look at the twisted and emotionally charged path of color-based discrimination that began when she was warned not to play in the sun. She succinctly details how the “light is right, black get back” mentality has permeated the African diaspora, its invasion of black institutions and how it sits just below the radar in Hollywood, athletics, news coverage and music videos. She includes stories from dozens of friends, acquaintances and experts, which as a whole suggest that blacks the world over may have been traumatized as much by colorism as they have by racism and colonialism.
	The color of water, a black’s man tribute to his white mother by James McBride	The Color of Water tells the remarkable story of Ruth McBride Jordan, the two good men she married, and the 12 good children she raised. Jordan, born Rachel Shilsky, a Polish Jew, immigrated to America soon after birth; as an adult she moved to New York City, leaving her family and faith behind in Virginia. Jordan met and married a black man, making her isolation even more profound. The book is a success story, a testament to one woman’s true heart, solid values, and indomitable will. Ruth Jordan battled not only racism but also poverty to raise her children and, despite being sorely tested, never wavered.
	Interracial intimacies - Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption by Randall Kennedy	A Harvard law professor, Kennedy offers a brilliant analysis of one the most controversial areas of American race relations–interracial sex. Kennedy weaves together history, law, literature, politics, and social policy in a searing examination of how blacks and whites have intermixed since Africans were brought to the U.S. as slaves.
	Tripping on the color line - Black-white multiracial families in a racially divided world by Heather M. Dalmage	Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families In a Racially Divided World, by Heather Dalmage, discusses the “lived experiences” of multiracial families and family members in America. Having interviewed both members of multiracial households and children of such unions, Dalmage has successfully shed light on an element of a society centered on and rooted in the construct of race, but known only to those involved in such relationships, marriages, and families.
	African Roots/ American Cultures by Sheila S. Walker	This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diaspora contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diaspora communities. Privileging African Diaspora voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas.
	Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews	While the rise and abolition of slavery and ongoing race relations are central themes of the history of the United States, the African Diaspora actually had a far greater impact on Latin and Central America. More than ten times as many Africans came to Spanish and Portuguese America as the United States. George Reid Andrews synthesizes the history of people of African descent in every Latin American country from Mexico and the Caribbean to Argentina. He examines how African peoples and their descendants made their way from slavery to freedom and how they helped shape and responded to political, economic, and cultural changes in their societies.
	SCIENCE
	The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells	In this book, British geneticist Wells sets out to answer long-standing anthropological questions of where humans came from, how we migrated and when we arrived in such places as Europe and North America. To trace the migration of human beings from our earliest homes in Africa to the farthest reaches of the globe, Wells calls on recent DNA research for support.
	ART
	Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum by Gary Vikan	The volume contains fine reproductions from the largest collection of Ethiopian art outside that country, held by the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. A text on the life and religious practices in Ethiopia and another on the country’s art history provide an introduction to the people, culture, and art of Christian Ethiopia.
	Churches of Ethiopia by Mario Di Salvo	Narga Sellase’s monastery was founded in 1748 and sits on a tiny islet in the middle of Lake Tana. The church is one of the masterpieces in the multi-millennial Ethiopian civilization, an ancient Christian enclave in Africa.
	Art of Ethiopia by C. Griffith Mann	The hand crosses, icons and illuminated manuscripts of Ethiopian Christianity are the subject of this slim, lavishly illustrated volume, a treasure of devotional art. This carefully curated book is divided into three sections, focusing on the ornate cast iron and bronze crosses first used in church processionals during the Middle Ages; the illuminated texts that were popular from the 14th to the 16th century and then again in the late 17th and 18th; and the painted icons that had begun playing a crucial role in worship by the 15th century.
	Crosses of Ethiopia by Mario Di Salvo	There is no country in the world that matches Ethiopia in the number of forms and types of its crosses. Ever since Ethiopia’s conversion to Christianity, the cross has appeared almost universally, not only as a liturgical instrument in churches and monasteries, but also in common devotion and in daily life. This volume examines a multiplicity of crosses, highlighting a plurality of types as well as the relationship between one cross and another with the aim of discerning a common origin.
	Ethiopian Art by Sam Fogg	The fifteenth century saw a magnificent flowering of painting in the highlands of central and northern Ethiopia – in paintings on panel and above all in manuscripts. This book features an unparalleled collection of Ethiopian Christian artifacts, mostly fifteenth-century manuscripts, icons and metalwork but also some work from the two succeeding centuries.
	Art that heals: the Image as Medicine in Ethiopia by Jacques Mercier	Art That Heals examines the connection between Ethiopian scroll art and other African art, inviting the reader to consider more general rather than mere inter-ethnic relationships. If African healing art is of so much interest today it is due to its discovery or rediscovery in a world where alternative medicines are being sought and our relationship to art is being questioned - Are we only passive admirers of aestheticized objects, or might we be deeply touched and changed by the objects we create.
	Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art from the Diaspora by Elizabeth Harney	Ethiopian Passages tells of the importance of the arts in the African diaspora and explores the important histories of migration and the myriad negotiations of artistic groups among African artists in the diaspora. This book brings together the works of ten artists of Ethiopian descent living in a Diaspora that stretches from Ethiopia to California, New York, Washington DC, and France. It presents these dramatic works of art against a backdrop of Ethiopia’s fascinating and often troubled history and demonstrates how the artists’ techniques and choice of material have been influenced by their experiences of displacement and by their search for a sense of identify.
	Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa by Catherine Lampert	African art is often pigeonholed under the heading of tribal art. The exoticism of jungle adventure movies and anthropological photography have blinded us to the modern artists in Africa who are painting and sculpting with contemporary techniques addressing universal themes just like artists on other continents. This collection of essays accompanies a traveling exhibition of African art that opened in London. Trying to present a coherent view of the whole continent is not its aim. Instead, we are treated to a disparate group of artists and thinkers pondering various facets of the problem of integrating their African heritage with the essentially Euro-American international art world.
	TRAVEL GUIDE
	Ethiopia Map by ITBM	Road and travel map, in color. Distinguishes roads ranging from paved highways to unpaved seasonal roads. Legend includes national parks/reserves, sand dunes, railroads, tracks, trails, international/national airports, aerodromes, gas stations, police, bus stations, hospitals/medical facilities, customs posts, border crossings, no border crossings, points of interest, vistas/views, historic/archaeological ruins, lodging, rest houses/hostels/bungalows, campsites/huts, oasis, caves. Includes inset map of Addis Ababa.
	Lonely Planet Ethiopia & Eritrea by Matt Phillips	The only comprehensive guide to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It includes access chapter on crossing between Ethiopia and Eritrea, features the popular Historic route plus walking tours to Gondar, Lalibela, Harar and Massawa.
	Rumbo a Etiopia by Denberu Mekonnen Siyoum	Ethiopia in a country of contrasts; deserts to the east, large and fertile plateau in the center, many lakes, some of them with small islands with mysterious monasteries. In the south: huge national parks and cultures that kept intact their rites and life styles. To this and more add the amiability of the people and enjoy the excellent coffee of Kaffa. ONLY IN SPANISH
	Ethiopia, 4th: The Bradt Travel Guide by Phillip Briggs	This Bradt guide has become the definitive source of information on this country rich in culture, history, and dramatic scenery. For first-time visitors, Philip Briggs supplies plenty of practical advice on how to bridge the cultural gap and plan a trouble-free trip.
	PHOTOGRAPHY
	Vanishing Africa by Gianni Giansanti AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	This book celebrates the eternal beauty and mystery of Africa by showcasing its remotest regions and most obscure inhabitants. Here are fascinating peoples that have remained isolated for centuries, retaining their ancient cultures and customs intact to the present day.By means of his camera and his pen, in this book the authors have encapsulated long years of study of the peoples and ethnic groups of this continent, in search of vanishing Africa. Available in Spanish under the title: “Lejana Africa” .
	Ethiopia: Peoples of the Omo Valley by Hans Silvester	The first volume of this deluxe two-volume set presents the everyday lives of the Omo people, their rituals, parades, children’s games, and even their battles. In the second volume, each photograph becomes a masterpiece of abstract art, revealing close-ups of the tribes’ traditional body paintings. Silvester’s accompanying text traces his journey to the Horn of Africa, revealing the fascinating beauty of a world now in danger of extinction.
	Faces of Africa by Carol Beckwith	Rather than view African cultures as an indistinguishable whole, seasoned photographers Beckwith and Fisher carefully focus on the varied life journeys and rituals of the peoples they have encountered over three decades of travel in 36 countries. From Ethiopia to Senegal to Namibia, they crisscross the continent to capture traditional rites of passage.
	Tribes of the Great Rift Valley by Elizabeth L. Gilbert	Tribes of the Great Rift Valley is a celebration of the traditional peoples who occupy the lands of the Great Rift Valley, from the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Eritrea, across the Ethiopian highlands, and down to the great lakes and plains of Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi. Here are the proud, majestic warriors of the Maasai and Samburu, the Mursi with their jutting lip-plates, the guinea-fowl-painted faces of the Karo, among many other tribes.
	African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa by Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher and Graham Hancock	Two talented photographers focus on the Horn of Africa–an “ark” that shelters an astonishing variety of landscapes and human societies. Starting with the Christian Amharas of Lalibela and Axum and the Falashas of Lake Tana, they complete an arc that takes them to the seacoast of Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia, as far south as Lamu in Kenya, and finally to the remote peoples of the Southeast who still engage in stick fighting, body painting, scarification and the wearing of lip plates.
	African Trees: A Photographic Exploration by Charles Bryant and Brita Lomba	The book takes the reader on a journey to a range of habitats – from the savannah of the Serengeti and the bushveld of Mpumalanga to riverine forests, woodlands and other fragile ecosystems in the game reserves and national parks of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Kenya. Seventeen pristine destinations are covered in all.
	Ethiopia Photographed: Historic Photographs of the Country and its People taken between 1867 and 1935 by Richard Pankhurst and Denis Gerard	Ethiopia Photographed is a unique photographic record of this mysterious and fascinating land up to the Italian Fascist invasion in 1936. The people, terrain, buildings, and rulers of Ethiopia — such as Emperor Menelik, Lej Iyasu, and Emperor Haile Selassie — make it a highly photogenic country, as this lavishly illustrated book reveals. The book begins with an introduction which gives a brief history of the country in this period, and describes the role of photography. The rich captured images in the book bear witness to many personalities and places not previously seen and, in many cases, now lost for all time but for the photographic memories recorded here, grouped around the following themes: Historic Personalities; Historic Towns; Addis Ababa; Economic, Social, and Cultural Life; Innovation and Modernization; and Preparing to Resist the Impending Invasion.
	Bless Ethiopia by Richard Pankhurst andKazuyoshi Nomachi	From the beauty of Labilela’s rock churches to the traditional ceremonies of the people of the Omo Valley, this book reveals the hidden face of this striking, mysterious land. Photographer Kazuyoshi Nomachi captures the unique mosaic of Ethiopia as it was meant to be experienced, from the traditions of an ancient people to the daily chores of survival.
	HISTORY & CULTURE
	A History of Ethiopia by Harold G.Marcus	This book attempts to cover the entire history of Ethiopia from prehistoric times to the fall of the Mengistu government in 1991. Marcus views Ethiopian history as a series of cyclical expansions from its component parts to empire and back again; he argues that the idea of the greater Ethiopian nation will always cause the state to reunify despite its current disintegration.
	Wax and Gold: Tradition and Innovation in Ethiopian Culture por Donald N. Levine	Levine’s pioneering work, Wax and Gold, has become an Ethiopian classic. The very concept of Wax and Gold has taken a life of its own: it figures at once in our understanding of Ethiopia’s pre-modern culture and in our coming to grips with Ethiopia’s reception of modernity.
	Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock	English journalist Hancock retells the circumstances and thoughts that led to his discovery that the Lost Ark of the Covenant really exists. This book is a lesson on the history of the ancient Israelites and of the Biblical Ark, a history of Ethiopia, a history of the mysterious Knights Templar, and a story of Gothic architecture and mediaeval literature.
	The History of Ethiopian Immigrants and Refugees in America, 1900-2000 by Solomon Addis Getahun	Ethiopians form the third largest post-1960 African immigrant in the U.S. Over the years, their migratory patterns have changed in response to changes in Ethiopian and American diplomatic relationships. The Ethiopian immigrants also vary among themselves depending on whether they were granted asylum, are refugees, or benefit from the Diversity Visa lottery winners. Getahun studies the context of the immigrants arrival, their patterns of settlement, and their adjustment in the U.S.
	NATURE
	Field Guide to common trees and shrubs of East Africa by Najma Dharani	Designed to help the plant enthusiast identify prominent species that can be observed in gardens and parks, and in the countryside, this is a field guide to the more common trees and shrubs, indigenous, naturalized and exotic, of the East African region.
	A guide to endemic birds of Eritrea and Ethiopia by Next Jose Luis Vivero Pol	For the first time, the thirty endemic birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea are brought together in one volume for easy reference. An illustration of each bird and a distribution map accompany a brief description of each species. Information on habitat, distribution, behaviour, breeding, threats and IUCN category is also included to assist the keen observer.
	CHILDREN
English/Amharic	Silly Mammo: An Ethiopian Tale by Gebregeorgis Yohannes and Bogale Belachew	This popular Ethiopian folktale, told here in English with Amharic translation, resembles the story of Silly Jack and all those other stories of the foolish boy who gets everything wrong. When Mammo’s loving mother sends him to work, he loses his wages, so she scolds him and tells him to put them in his pocket next time. The next day he finds work with a cattle herder, who pays him with milk, and remembering his mother’s words, Mammo pours the milk in his pocket. The farce escalates until Mammo’s wild mess-up makes a beautiful young woman laugh, which cures her of her inability to speak and prompts her grateful, wealthy father to allow Mammo to marry his daughter.
	The Perfect Orange: A Tale from Ethiopia by Frank P. Araujo and Xiao-Jun Li	Discovering a perfect orange in her Ethiopian mountain village, Tshai travels to the city to tender her prize to the King. When the girl passes the house of the Lord Hyena, the jeering animal scorns her silly gift. But the ruler himself is so moved that he tries to reward Tshai with riches. When she refuses, Nigus orders his Royal Chamberlain to follow her and give her a donkey whose saddle bags are filled with gold and jewels.
	The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird	Dani is a rich, fat kid, failing at school, who runs away from his bullying dad. Orphan Mamo, kidnapped and sold as a slave to a cruel farmer, escapes and returns to the city. The runaways meet in the city cemetery, where they hide out until they join a gang of homeless kids. Under the direction of their stern leader, the gang members care for one another and share everything, including what they scavenge from the garbage and beg from passers-by. A friendship story of fear and hope that will draw in readers.
	Fire on the Mountain by Jane Kurtz and E.B. Lewis	This is a well-known Ethiopian folktale about a clever shepherd boy and his sister. In exchange for a bag of money and four cows, Alemayu accepts a challenge from his sister’s boastful, rich employer to spend the night alone on a mountain with minimal clothing and without a fire. He survives the bitterly cold night by concentrating on a shepherd’s fire across the way on another mountain. The haughty man refuses to pay him, stating that looking at someone else’s fire is the same as building one’s own-until the siblings devise a plan that allows the man to see the foolishness of his reasoning.
	Pulling the Lion’s Tail by Jane Kurtz and Floyd Cooper	A retelling of the Ethiopian folktale “The Lion’s Whiskers.” In the traditional story, a new stepmother learns to be patient in drawing her stepson into accepting her. Kurtz’s version has a female child as the central character, emphasizing her persistent attempts to reach out to her father’s new wife after her mother’s death. The details of mourning and her daily life make the forlorn Almaz seem real, and the respectful warmth of her relationship with her wise grandfather is sensitively portrayed.
	OTHER
	Our Day to End Poverty by Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan	Our Day to End Poverty is organized into 24 “hour/chapter” segments. Each chapter/hour of the day proposes a variety of fun and practical actions one can take to help overcome domestic and global poverty. The chapters are short and pithy — full of specific facts and a menu of alternative action steps.
	The Devil’s Cup: A history of the world according to coffee by Stewart Lee Allen	Stewart Lee Allen decides to travel the world in search of the history of coffee. He does a great job in adding adventure to the story of coffee.
	Coffee: A Dark History by Antony Wild	The history of coffee is indeed as “dark,” as his subtitle puts it. A coffee lover and an expert on the subject , Wild is nonetheless no sentimentalist when it comes to the human and natural toll the bean has extracted — “poverty, violence, exploitation, environmental devastation, political oppression, and corruption” — nor to the threats that caffeine poses to the health of those who consume it.
	The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents by Edith Harding-Esch and Philip Riley AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	First published in 1986, The Bilingual Family has provided thousands of parents with the information and advice they need to make informed decisions about what language policy to adopt with their children. This second edition contains updated references and new entries to the alphabetical reference guide. In Spanish under the title La Familia Bilingüe.
	Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism by Colin Baker AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	Colin Baker’s handbook is a great help for bilingual parents. Baker includes the most recent research results in a format which allows busy parents to read according to their current perception of their individual set of language parenting problems. In Spanish under the title Guia Para Padres Y Maestros De Niños Bilingües.
	28: Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	Here Stephanie Nolen offers 28 searing portraits of Africans affected by the deadly virus. Scattered across the continent from the slums of Lagos, Nigeria, to the bush in southern Zambia, these Africans present a mosaic of a continent in crisis and a collective cry for help. With a seasoned journalist’s finesse, Nolen effortlessly weaves technical information—health statistics, disease data, NGO reports—into these deeply intimate glimpses of people often overlooked in the flood of contemporary media. Nolen’s book packs a real emotional wallop. Also available in Spanish as “28 Historias de SIDA en Africa”
	A crime so monstrous: Face-to-Face to modern-day slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner	Today there are more slaves than at any time in history, according to journalist Skinner’s report on current and former slaves and slave dealers. Skinner focuses most sharply on Haiti, Sudan, Romania and India. Skinner reiterates that sexual trafficking is only one component of slavery, but devotes the bulk of this book to this issue.
FICTION
	The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu	In this novel, The Beautiful Things Heaven Bears, Dinaw Mengestu tells a compelling story of immigration, loss, and gentrification set in an impoverished neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Sepha Stefanos immigrated from Ethiopia seventeen years ago, a journey that saw him fleeing Addis Ababa at age sixteen, the day after his father was taken from the family home and summarily killed.
	What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	As a boy, Deng is separated from his family when the civil war in Sudan wipes out his village. He flees on foot with a group of other young boys, taking him to Ethiopia, a refugee camp in Kenya and finally to the United States, encountering danger and hardship along the way. The story is told in parallel to subsequent trials in the United States. This book is also available in Spanish under the title “Que es el Que” .
	The Abyssinian: A Novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin AVAILABLE IN SPANISH	At the heart of Jean-Christophe Rufin’s marvelous first novel is a bit of truth: in the year 1699, Louis XIV of France sent an embassy to the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia). From this small fact Rufin has spun a mesmerizing tale of adventure, romance, and political intrigue. Available in Spanish under the title: El Abisinio.
	Caucasia: A Novel by Danzy Senna	A young girl learns some difficult lessons in Danzy Senna’s debut novel Caucasia. Growing up in a biracial family in 1970s Boston, Birdie has seen her family disintegrate due to the increasing racial tensions. Her father and older sister move to Brazil, where they hope to find true racial equality, while Birdie and her mother drift through the country, eventually adopting new identities and settling in a small New Hampshire town.

MOVIES

FICTION	ETHIOPIA
	Endurance directed by Bud Greenspan	This film about Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrsellasie, who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and is considered one of the greatest runners of all time, is a dramatization that often appears to be a documentary. Beautifully photographed, the footage shot in Haile’s native land is often spectacular enough to make you think you’re watching a National Geographic special. (Only in VHS)
	Live and Become Directed by Radu Mihaleanu	The film centers on the plight of Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas, forced to flee to Sudanese refugee camps for relief from persecution and famine. In 1984, “Operation Moses” begins the airlift of Falashas to Israel. A Christian woman in a refugee camp wants a better life for her nine-year-old son. She orders him to pretend to be Jewish so he can be airlifted out. After a poignant silent glance with the boy’s mother, a Falasha woman whose son has recently died takes the boy’s hand as she boards the plane to Israel.
FICTION	AFRICA
	Yesterday, Directed by Darrell Roodt	After falling ill, Yesterday (Khumalo) learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday’s one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
	Tsotsi, Directed by Gavin Hood	In Johannesburg, the small time criminal Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. One night, Tsotsi hijacks a car and under the despair of a woman, he shots her in the stomach. While driving the car, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat and the woman was a desperate mother.
	The Wooden Camera Directed by Ntshavheni Wa Luruli	Two thirteen year old boys play along the railway line in Kayelitsha, a township close to Capetown. A dead man is tossed from a passing train, clutching an attach case. Inside, the boys discover a gun and a video camera. Sipho takes the gun, Madiba takes the camera. Madiba hides the camera within a makeshift wooden box to avoid losing his new toy. Through the lens, his everyday surroundings take on a strange new beauty.
	Beat the Drum Directed by David Hickson	A young orphaned boy sets out for the big city to find his uncle after a mysterious illness strikes his village. Driven by his determination to survive and his growing social awareness he finds a way to make an honest living and returns to his village with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp. An emotional and timely drama reminding us how one small voice can be the brave start of colossal change uniting a village a township and even a nation.
	Masai: The Rain Warriors Directed by Pascal Plisson	This arrestingly beautiful adventure shot on the savannahs of Kenya depicts a community’s quest to bring rain to their land and ensure their survival. A band of very young Masai warriors sets out to kill a mystical lion to end a drought that is plaguing their village. Barely teenagers, the warriors are untested and unskilled, and they are unsure whether the lion actually exists. And, if it does exist, will bringing back its mane cure the drought. It is the first film to be solely populated by real-life Masai and spoken entirely in their native tongue.
FICTION	ADOPTION
	Casa de los Babys Directed by John Sayles	John Sayles brings observant compassion and calm insight to Casa de los Babys. Dispensing with traditional storytelling to focus instead on the turbulent emotions surrounding the adoption of babies by American women in an unnamed South American country, Sayles takes an unobtrusive approach to their dilemmas, listening like an understanding friend to these hopeful women, who are either bound or separated by their disparate personalities. Sayles also covers both sides of the adoption equation by including a Latina mother, certain that her baby will enjoy a better life with adoptive American parents, but still struggling with the anguish of her sacrifice. Casa de los Babys is a sensitive film about a sensitive subject, allowing viewers to draw their own conclusions.
DOCUMENTARY
	Black Gold Directed by Marc Francis and Nick Francis	After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world. Black Gold asks us to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the coffee farmers who produce the beans.
	Black Coffee Directed by Irene Angelico	Black Coffee is a three part documentary examining the complicated history of coffee and detailing its political, social and economic influence from the past to the present day.
	Don’t Forget your Passport - Ethiopia, Africa	Host Marie Cruz roams the canyons and plateaus of the Semien Mountain ranges along the warring-border zone of Eritrea. There, far from civilization, she discovers elaborate frescoes painted on the walls of a 12th century cave dwelling. She also stumbles across the brutal killing of livestock during a ritual ceremony to the Muslim God “Allah” the city of Gondar the Camelot of Africa.
	A Walk to Beautiful Directed by Mary Olive Smith	The award winning feature-length documentary A Walk to Beautiful tells the stories of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. They make the choice to take the long and arduous journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in search of a cure and a new life.
	Falasha: exile of the black jews Directed by Simcha Jacobovici	The tragic plight of Ethiopian Jews (Falashas) takes center stage in this well-researched and moving documentary but very outdated, many things happened since it was filmed in 1984.The Falashas (”exiles”) have lived for over 2,000 years in this region and are vastly outnumbered in a state that is half Muslim, with Christians making up the next largest religious group. But the discrimination arises from politics: Jews were massacred after the 1974 Marxist military coup — not by the Marxists, but by their opposition, because they feared the Falashas would support the government. They are also prosecuted by the Marxists who fear Judaism stops them from supporting the government.
	Ethiopian kids playground by Eyassu Woldesenbet	This is an original film about childhood games that kids in Ethiopia have been playing for generations. It includes more than 30 competitive and fun games that reflect the rich cultural heritage of Ethiopians. It will give your children a true picture of childhood life in Ethiopia.
	Mystery of the Nile	Join a team of explorers on the expedition of a lifetime as they set off to become the first to navigate the Blue Nile from source to sea. The epic 3,260 mile descent down the world’s greatest and deadliest river has eluded humankind for centuries - until now! Over the arduous, four month journey, the team faces nearly in-surmountable challenges - from crocodile attacks to armed bandits and arrests. Through breathtaking cinematography, Mystery of the Nile reveals a wondrous region and abundant treasures, from Tissisat Falls and the wonders of Egypt to the forgotten black pyramids of Meroe and 12th century churches that were carved into sheer rock.
	National Geographic - Africa Directed by Alan Root	From National Geographic, AFRICA is a groundbreaking eight-hour series captured over two years of filming in 11 countries. This epic series presents Africa through the eyes of its people conveying the diversity and beauty of the land and the compelling personal stories of the people who shape its future. (Part 4: MOUNTAINS OF FAITH Discover Ethiopia’s rugged beauty and ancient traditions in a tale tracing the lives of two ambitious young men on the brink of manhood)
	Angels in the Dust Direct