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RUN FAT B! TCH RUN: THE ONLY PERSONAL TRAINER YOU’ LL EVER NEED
Author: Ruth Field Price: KES 1,450
Is there a large bottom-shaped dent in your sofa? Is there an eye-wateringly expensive( and rarely used) gym membership burning a hole in your bank account? Does the sight of your wobbly thighs leave you cowering under the duvet? Then it’ s time you faced the truth: the only option is to lace up your trainers and hit the ground running. Straight-talking, funny and brutally honest,‘ Run Fat B! tch Run’ will give you – yes, you – the push you need to get out the door, pounding the pavements and shedding pounds in no time. Hate running? No worries.‘ Run Fat B! tch Run’ will give you all the tools you need to transform that passion into real motivation. If you want to lose weight, get fit and become an ass-kicking, get-things-done superwoman, there’ s only one thing left to do … RUN!
A TEASPOON OF EARTH AND SEA
Author: Dina Nayeri Price: KES 2,800
Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, 11-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English vocabulary words and collect illegal copies of‘ Life’ magazine, tapes of TV shows and Beatles cassettes. When Saba’ s mother and sister disappear, leaving her and her father alone in Iran, she is certain they have moved to America without her. As she grows into womanhood in the warm community of her village, Saba replaces her lost family with a quartet of surrogate mothers. But life in post-revolutionary Iran is limited for a girl of Saba’ s talents. She aches for her lost mother and sister and for the Western life she believes she is being denied. Filled with a colourful cast of characters,‘ A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea’ is told in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with direct Western prose and tells a story about the importance of controlling one’ s own fate.
KARIBU KENYA ACCOMMODATION GUIDE
Author: Tamara Britten
Price: KES 2,500
‘ Karibu Kenya Accommodation Guide’ is a comprehensive guidebook to Kenya with detailed information on over 850 camps, lodges, hotels and resorts. It also includes facts about Kenya, all the regions in the country, the national parks, the reserves and conservancies, and the activities and facilities that are on offer in each area. Colour illustrations enhance every chapter, including maps of each region and photos of all properties. The guidebook is divided into regions and has a fully inclusive index making it clear and easy to use.
GHANA MUST GO
Author: Taiye Selasi Price: KES 1,450
This is a story of a family torn apart by lies and reunited by grief. A family ultimately absolved by that bitter but most tenuous bond, familial love.‘ Ghana Must Go’ interweaves the stories of the Sais in a rich and moving drama of separation and reunion, spanning generations and cultures from West Africa to New England, London, New York and back again. It is a debut novel of blazing originality and startling power by a writer of extraordinary gifts.
Books available at:
Westlands Sundries Level 1, Opposite Steers Tel: + 254 20 7122437 Email: wsundries @ nbi. ispkenya. com
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