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1) The oracle
Author
Series
Fargo adventures volume 11
Language
English
Description
The husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team of Sam and Remi Fargo return in a new adventure as they search for an ancient scroll--which carries a deadly curse. In 533 A.D., the last Vandal ruler in North Africa consults an oracle on how to defeat the invading Byzantine army. The oracle tells the king that a high priestess cast a curse upon the Vandal Kingdom after a sacred scroll was stolen. In order to lift the curse, the scroll must be returned to...
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his exile to his return, providing an inside view of the intrusion of white missionaries and colonial government into tribal Igbo society in the 1890s.
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
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...
5) Sunburst
Author
Series
Sky King ranch volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When former Navy Seal and lifelong bachelor Ranger Kingston is called upon to take part in a rescue mission to save his brother Colt, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria, he is shocked to find among the hostages a woman he knows and could never forget. Noemi Sutton was attempting to return a young girl to her family in Boko Haram territory when she and the girl found themselves taken hostage, along with several others. And while Ranger...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit of a young poultry farmer named Chinonso. His life is set off course when he sees a woman who is about to jump off a bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, he hurls two of his prized chickens off the bridge. The woman, Ndali, is stopped in her tracks. Chinonso and Ndali fall in love but she is from an educated and wealthy family. When her family objects...
7) Akata witch
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matured a little by the experience with Ekwensu, Sunny and her friends continue their studies in the Leopard Society, which feels anticlimactic. But the lord of the lakes isn't done with Sunny, and she has to team up with both Leopards and Lambs to travel to the mythical town of Osisi for a final showdown which could destroy humanity.
Author
Lexile measure
810L
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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her sons body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one familys struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings....
11) Girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood.
13) Purple hibiscus
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the city of Enugu, Nigeria, fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother, Jaja, lead a privileged life. Their Papa is a wealthy businessman; they live in a beautiful house, and attend an exclusive missionary school. But their home life is anything but harmonious. Her father, a fanatically religious man, has impossible expectations of his children and wife, and severely punishes them if they're less than perfect. Home is silent and suffocating....
14) Stay with me
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" --
15) Noor
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1898
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.
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent...
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.
Onyeka has a lot of hairƯthe kind that makes strangers stop in the street and her peers whisper behind her back. At least she has Cheyenne, her best friend, who couldnt care less what other people think. Still, Onyeka has always felt insecure about her vibrant...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dunni hasn't seen her high school boyfriend, Obinna, since she left Nigeria to attend college in America. Before their devastating separation, they vowed to find their way back to each other one day. Twelve years later, and their vow is a thing of the past. Dunni works as a geneticist in Seattle and is engaged to a man she doesn't love but one her parents approve of. Her future is laid out for her, and everything is going according to plan until...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable debut novel about a boy who goes missing, a family that is torn apart, and a nation on the brink. During the rainy season of 1995, in the bustling town of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, one family's life is disrupted by the sudden disappearance of seventeen-year-old Paul Utu, beloved brother and son. As they grapple with the sudden loss of their darling boy, they embark on a painful and moving journey of immense power which changes their...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nicole Oruwari has the perfect life: a handsome husband; a palatial house in the heart of glittering Lagos, Nigeria; and a glamorous group of friends. She left gloomy London and a troubled family past behind for sunny, moneyed Lagos, becoming part of the Nigerwives--a community of foreign women married to Nigerian men. But when Nicole disappears without a trace after a boat trip, the cracks in her so-called perfect life start to show. As the investigation...