Adepero Oduye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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"the story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
3) The Dinner
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A dark psychological thriller where two estranged brothers and their wives meet at a restaurant to discuss a grotesque crime committed by their sons. With their involvement still a secret, they must decide how far they’ll go to protect the ones they love. A riveting story filled with many shocking twists and turns, THE DINNER is a chilling parable about the savage reality hidden beneath the surface of middle-class lives. Based on Herman Koch’s...
4) Little rot
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
When a sex party brutally upends the lives of three old friends, they are sucked into the underbelly of a corrupt Nigerian underworld where they look for a way out of the trouble they’ve instigated amidst power, sexual violence, murder and betrayal, testing how far they’ll go to save each other—or themselves.
5) War Girls
Author
Series
War girls volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky.
In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect...
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky.
In a war-torn Nigeria, battles are fought using flying, deadly mechs and soldiers are outfitted with bionic limbs and artificial organs meant to protect...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE
Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic....
Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic....