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3) Ikenga
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
4) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A married Nigerian couple must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Duyole Pitan-Payne realizes that someone is trying to stop him from assuming a prestigious job in the United Nations after discovering that a wily entrepreneur is stealing body parts from a Nigerian hospital for use in rituals.
8) Girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Narrator Sheila Atim sets a sensitive yet emphatic tone for this harrowing story of violence, loss, and survival...Listeners will be enveloped in this emotional listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
This program is read by Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress, Sheila Atim.
Girl, Edna O'Brien's hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her niece, Nicole, a part of the Nigerwives—a community of foreign women married to wealthy Nigerian men—disappears, Claudine digs into Nicole’s life, uncovering a dark side filled with secrets, isolation and violence that threatens to expose her own buried history.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sisters Cheta and Zam's paths to break free of their oppressive home diverge wildly--one moves into an aunt's luxurious home and the other struggles to survive on her wits alone--and when they finally reunite, Zam realizes how far Cheta has fallen, leaving Cheta's fate in Zam's hands.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the wake of a southeastern Nigerian mother's discovery of her son's body on her doorstep, a family struggles to understand the enigmatic nature of a youth shaped by disorienting blackouts, diverse friendships and a cousin's worldly influence.
12) Noor
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
13) B is for baby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A baby and her brother take a basket full of bananas to visit their baba, and the baby sees many different animals along the way, including butterflies, birds, and baboons.
15) Lightseekers
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Comany
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students.
16) Gaslight
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A shadow has fallen over the megachurch in Ogun State, Nigeria: the beloved Bishop Dawodu has been arrested for the murder of his wife. Sade Dawodu has vanished without a trace and although no body has been found, the police have acted based on what they claim is damning evidence. Philip Taiwo returns to solve the case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hannah Bailey has never had a relationship with her father, the Nigerian businessman who had a fling with her white mother, so she's always felt clueless about part of her identity. When her father dies, she's invited to Nigeria for the funeral. Though she wants to hate the man who abandoned her, deep down she can't help feeling curious about where he was from and what he was like. Searching for answers, Hannah boards a plane to Lagos, Nigeria. In...
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