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2) Vagabonds!
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician; a fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple; a wife and mother trying to escape from her violent husband....
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A towering figure in world literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly one-half century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking, fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. ("You don't see things the same way when you encounter a voice like that."-Toni Morrison) In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospital for use in ritualistic...
4) Lightseekers
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students.
5) Gaslight
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide"--
7) Noor
Author
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Too Small Tola lives in an apartment with her clever sister, Moji, her big brother, Dapo, and Grandmommy, who is very bossy. In the first of three endearing new adventures, Tola is sized just right to wriggle under the bed and rescue Grandmommy's prized possession when it goes missing. Her savvy and math skills save the day when Grandmommy gets sick, and when the family can't afford new clothes, industrious Tola finds a way--with a little help from...
10) Americanah
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nigeria. Korede's sister, Ayoola, is the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. One day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice, asking Korede...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...