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PIRACY IN SOMALIA - Piracy in Somalia: Violence and Development in the Horn of Africa. By Awet Tewelde Weldemichael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xix + 238. $29.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781108739283); $89.99, hardcover (ISBN: 9781108496964); $24.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108759069).
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Do You Know Your South?: How Magazine Readers Shaped one of the South’s Most Successful Novels
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