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Kaffir Boy
Miriam's Song
African Women
Love in Black & White
Deadly Memory
The Last Liberal

FIRST CHAPTERS
Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy in America
Miriam's Song
African Women
Love in Black & White
Deadly Memory
The Last Liberal

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Kaffir Boy
Kaffir Boy in America
African Women
Love in Black & White

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Read all of Mark Mathabane's five books so you can be inspired and empowered by the remarkable saga of his family's struggle for survival against all odds

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Ubuntu -- A Novel Autographed. Not available in bookstores. Price: $20 (Save $5!) An unforgettable thriller about divided loyalties, deadly treachery, forbidden love, unspeakable horrors and the heroic courage of two South Africans -- one black, the other white -- who dare to reach across a deep racial divide to save their country's soul by bringing to justice one of the apartheid era's most ruthless death squad leaders.

African Women:
Three Generations

Autographed.
Not available in bookstores

Price: $14

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The deeply moving, shocking and inspiring stories of Mathabane's grandmother, mother and sister. The three women battle abuse, infidelity, poverty and African traditions to empower themselves.

"The South African non-fiction version of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale..." Boston Globe.

Kaffir Boy: The true story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa.

Autographed

Price: $13

Read this international bestseller to learn how Mathabane seizes on education as a way to escape the mean streets of South Africa's most notorious ghetto, where midnight police raids, hunger, poverty and bloody gang wars were his rites of passage. Required reading in many schools and colleges.

Kaffir Boy in America
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Autographed

Not available in bookstores

Price: $14

This best-selling sequel to Kaffir Boy begins with Mathabane's journey from South Africa to the U.S. and provides profound insights about race relations, perseverance and the complexity of the American dream.

Miriam's Song
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Price: $20
(Save $5!)

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Autographed Hardcover

The gripping, wrenching and uplifting true story of a young girl's coming-of-age during the violent and tumultuous years leading to the abolition of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela, and the birth of a new South Africa.

Love in Black & White (hardcover)
by Gail and Mark Mathabane

Autographed.
Not available in bookstores.

Price: $20

A powerful, poignant, riveting and deeply personal story that has become a modern classic about interracial love and the complexities of race in America.

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