Books like The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered by Khalid Abdullah Tariq Al-Mansour

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

Irene, a spy for the secretive Invisible Library, and her assistant Kai race through an alternate London to recover a stolen book that threatens the fabric of reality.

Sheba and Ophir, King Solomon’s mines, Timbuktu - for centuries the “Dark Continent” of Africa was a land of fabulous, golden legend. The European imagination invested it with great kingdoms and great wealth - a land ruled by a mysterious Christian king, Prester John. In the past two hundred years, however, these glittering legends have been replaced by a far different belief - that Africa is a land without a past, without history; that its peoples have always lived in savagery, in what has been described as “centuries-long stagnation.” The numerous and impressive archeological traces of earlier African civilizations have been ignored or attributed to a lost people. However, the truth is being found in the archeological record. There were civilizations, both highly developed and of purely African origin and character. In reality the great kingdom of Kush, with its splendid cities of Meroë and Napata, was an advanced African culture of the upper Nile several centuries before Christ. But the great flowering of African civilization south of the Sahara was medieval: the great kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay; the merchant cities of the East African coast with a thriving Africa-India trade; and the mysterious states of the interior, like Zimbabwe and Mapungubwe. THE LOST CITIES OF AFRICA, by Basil Davidson, is a much-needed survey of what is presently known of the African past.” BOOK JACKET.

An albino woman, Memory, writes her recollected truth while awaiting execution in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum‑security prison, questioning the nature of her conviction for the murder of her adopted father.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.