Furaha Publishers founded in 2014 is an independent children’s book publishing house based in Kigali Rwanda. It publishes 30 to 40 titles a year in both Kinyarwanda and English. Two titles were among the top 10 favorite children’s books in 2017.
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An epic fantasy full of adventure, thrills and action in the style of the old school 80s sword and sorcery movies like "Conan the Barbarian" An immortal tyrant, an iron ruler, with an insatiable quest for conquering the world of Rygar destroys the glorious city of Trogar. Only two survive, a Princess and a nameless loyal warrior known only by his title, The Blade Warrior, driven by revenge at the loss of everything they hold dear and sacred, the two embark on a dangerous and perilous journey across a land full of the aggressor's forces and indigenous species that inherit the world of Rygar to The Iron Ruler's expanding kingdom with the hope of ending his cold, heartless reign and restoring peace and balance to the realm. It is engraved in stone, carved in steel, documented in ink, preached by elders: good always prevails and triumphs over the forces of evil. A champion will emerge from the ashes of decay, stand up and oppose the iron ruler in the name of virtue. It is just a matter of time. The target audience for the book are fans of the sword & sorcery genre, teens, young adults and even adults who admire the craftsmanship that goes into creating a living, breathing fantasy world, and those who enjoy the old 80s fantasy movies full of great peril and heroism with the muscular hero, the fair princess and the tyrannical villain.
"Complete this moderately well-known line from a play by Shakespeare: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou" - what? If you answer by repeating Juliet's first word as her last here, you may as well be, as Cedric Watts argues, in the wrong. Juliet's quarrel is not with the name 'Romeo' but with the surname 'Montague' (or 'Mountague', as the earliest prints, the quartos, have it). Does the line simply sound too good now, too familiar, for some enterprising editor to correct it? In fact, Watts, who is Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Sussex, had the opportunity to make the change in his own edition of the play, published in 2000, but argued himself out of it. Wrangling over the precise meaning of Shakespeare's poems and plays is a centuries-old sport, yet the game goes on, as vigorously and sometimes viciously as ever, in our own time. Shakespeare's Puzzles brings together, in revised and augmented form, twenty-five of Professor Watts’ lively contributions to the genre from Around the Globe, the magazine of Shakespeare’s Globe in London, including his reflections on Juliet’s famously star-crossed line. Other acts of “informative entertainment” put the case for restoring the spelling ‘Dolphin’ in the place of the more usual ‘Dauphin’ in Henry V, for retitling Hamlet as Hamleth, and for restoring “Innogen” to Much Ado About Nothing. (If you’re asking “who is she?”, look no further than the opening of the play in the first quarto and the First Folio: “Enter Leonato gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife”, etc.) Such seeming niceties often have wider implications. What would it mean to have a silent woman on stage for much of Much Ado, observing but saying nothing about the affairs of her daughter Hero and her niece Beatrice? Or are we to guess that the author has second thoughts and silenced Innogen himself, before those benighted editors and critics got to her? Entertaining for some, Shakespeare’s Puzzles will no doubt have others – Professor Watts’ fellow scholars – scribbling in furious disagreement in the margin. Many readers will know that he has form in this area, being the co-author, with John Suntherland, of Henry V, War Criminal? And other Shakespeare Puzzles (Oxford University Press, 2000)." (Michael Caines in The Times Literary Supplement, 28 February 2014, p.32.)
‘Exams tend to corrupt; final exams corrupt finally.’ This novel is about exams, literature, sex, cancer and time. Part 1:1961: Examining a mind. Pembroke College, Cambridge. Peter Green and his friends Jack (big, dangerous) and Casey (small, sinister) face final examinations in English. Keen, they discuss their literary ideas. Peter, whose main study-aid is sexual pleasure, discards lissom Arabella, one of his two girlfriends. Competitive exams apparently subvert left-wing ideals. Peter alienates a don, Haggerty. Discoverer of literary ‘covert plotting’, he overlooks real-life covert plots. Part 2: 1969: Examining a campus. Sussex University. Jack, tricked by Haggerty, lectures there. Peter quarrels with radical students. Part 3: 2011: Examining a body. Hospitals in and around London. Peter undergoes intimate examinations. Death makes incursions. Now what use is the study of literature? This ironic novel -- using real exam-papers and real medical reports -- depicts the conflict between mind and body. The book is aimed particularly at students studying English Literature, and at their teachers.
6 tales in verse of finds made by Ann and Ron.
A British GP, 39, unmarried, looking for something more exciting than signing sick-notes in Wallasey, sees advert in The British Medical Journal for a medical officer to a timber firm in West Africa. At the London office finds he is the only applicant. Flies out to Ghana, is taken up country to the town where he finds he is to be the sole doctor in area as big as an English county and thousands of people. He will do everything from major surgery to public health. This is to be the pattern of his life for the next twenty-two years. Work described and life of people, white and black: many characters. After 18 months returns home. Discovers Africa is in his blood. Seeks further training in a larger hospital. Goes to a mine hospital in Zambia. Life and people described. Many characters. Safari to East Africa. Returns home after two years through Congo. Decides to settle in Africa. Goes to Rhodesia. Further training. Appointed district medical officer. Civil war. Learns war surgery. Gunfight at the Troutbeck Inn. Peace. Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe. Romance. Marries matron. They have two children. Family life. Decides no future for children in Zimbabwe. Returns to England with family. This book describes much medical experience but is above all a human story, with many adventures and characters. WD.
'A Far Cry From Summer' is an occult fantasy set in modern day England which harks back to the days of the Witchfinder General. Lorelei and Lani invite young artist Rosalind to their enchanted Dornie Manor for her latest commission. But this peaceful, beautiful place is haunted by the echoes of a past atrocity. Rosalind is their only hope of making right a centuries old wrong, until events elsewhere pose an even greater threat. Together with Arabella, a woman pursued by her own personal demons, they must confront a formidable enemy if they are to save the Sisterhood from the evil that is Fallen Angel.
What is it like to be someone else – especially your most hated enemy? Why do they think and do things differently? Tired of arguing over which of them was the best gamer, Josh and Alex stumbled upon a new video game shop, run by an enigmatic and amiable Japanese shopkeeper. He was to be their Game Master in this virtual reality video game that had no game controls. Little did they know it was a game that would change their lives, of their friends… and enemies… forever. “Oh! This game is no ordinary game,” The Game Master explained, “It reads your thoughts, seeks out your weaknesses to give challenges that are right just for you, the challenges you need to help you grow.” "It can read our minds?" puzzled the boys. As they progressed through the game’s levels they found out more about themselves and the lives of everyone around them. Mysteriously, the Game of Life began to spread its influence beyond Josh and Alex’s lives and to their friends. From Josh and Alex switching roles with each other in the game, campfire frolics and ghostly stories from their teachers, the boys learned more about their friends around them. The Game Master’s zany antics as he hosted a T.V. game show, “Hiro’s Happy Heroes” in the Game of Life, released a string of rib tickling gags, teases and tantalising tattles. The climax of the Game of Life came from the school Rube Goldberg challenge in which each grade had to join as a team to build their own whacky, madcap contraption. Would Josh and Alex be able to manage to get the two bullies in the class to work within the team? Patiently, with impish humour, the Game Master guides them through the different levels to a final intriguing twist.
