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Two children grow up on a farm in the Karroo plains of nineteenth-century South Africa: Waldo, the earnest and deeply curious son of the German farmkeeper, and Lyndall, the beautiful, outspoken and rebellious orphan who suffers for her ideals. These two soulmates unceasingly search for truth throughout their lives, but Waldo is frustrated by his poor social position and Lyndall cannot seem to break from stereotypical female restrictions.
2) Martha Quest
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Children of violence series volume 1
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English
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Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters...
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Children of violence series volume 2
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An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of...
4) Dolphin song
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Legend of the animal healer volume 2
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English
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A second prophesy, this time involving dolphins, comes true for eleven-year-old Martine, an orphaned South African girl who has mystical powers over animals, when she embarks on a school trip to study marine life off the coast of Mozambique.
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Children of violence series volume 5
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English
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"The 'Children of Violence' series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest, from her childhood in Africa to a post-nuclear Britain of AD 2000, first established Doris Lessing as a great radical writer. In this, the fifth and final volume, Martha, now middle-aged, leaves Africa for post-war London. As housekeeper to the Coldridge family, she watches the children in her care, the new 'children of violence', grow up in a disintegrating...
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Courtney novels volume 4
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After Centaine de Thirty falls in love with Michael Courtney, a South African aviator, she sets out on an journey to reach his native home, but when her ship is sunk by a torpedo, Centaine must navigate a blazing African desert and is aided by wandering Bushmen and a renegade white soldier.
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Doubleday
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1982.
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English
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Robyn Ballantyne's journey takes her to the land of her birth. When she returns with her brother to the uncharted wilderness northeast of the Kalahari Desert, she is prepared for grand adventure, searching for her long-lost father, and bringing the word of God to the savage tribes along the way. Soon, however, this spirited young woman finds herself wandering in a quite different kind of wilderness, equally uncharted, when she observes the superb...
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