An edition of The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel (P.S.) (2007)

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An edition of The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel (P.S.) (2007)

The camel bookmobile

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Once a fortnight the setlement of Madidima set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of a train of camels laden down with panniers of books. The only condition of the camel bookmobile is that every book must be returned each week or else the visits will cease. Then one day a book is stolen.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Language
English
Pages
308

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Fiction, Librarians, Books and reading, Americans, Bookmobiles, Literature, American literature, Mobile Bibliothek, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, action & adventure, Kenya, fiction
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Africa
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Camel Bookmobile
2020, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Camel Bookmobile: A Novel
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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Camel Bookmobile
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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The camel bookmobile
2008, Windsor
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The Camel Bookmobile
2008, HarperCollins
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Camel Bookmobile
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Camel Bookmobile
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The camel bookmobile
2008, Harper Perennial
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The Camel Bookmobile: A Novel (P.S.)
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Camel Bookmobile
2008, HarperCollins Publishers
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813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3558.A44338

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Pagination
308 pages
Number of pages
308

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OL31880402M
Internet Archive
camelbookmobile0000hami_y6l3
ISBN 10
0297851802, 0297851810
ISBN 13
9780297851806, 9780297851813
OCLC/WorldCat
972515857

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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned, the bookmobile will not return.But, encumbered by her Western values, Fi does not understand the people she seeks to help. And in the impoverished small community of Mididima, she finds herself caught in the middle of a volatile local struggle when the bookmobile's presence sparks a dangerous feud between the proponents of modernization and those who fear the loss of traditional ways.

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