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Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 27, 2021
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: September 27, 2021
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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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"One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation." -Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker
From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili...
3) Americanah
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Literatura Random House
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2014.
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605 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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248 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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BeSt of 2020!!!
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: August 4, 2020
Read A-Likes for the Week of November 15, 2020
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: August 4, 2020
Read A-Likes for the Week of November 15, 2020
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"A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds"--
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Astra House
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[2021]
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viii, 289 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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English
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An Igbo village where people adhere to ancient traditions must reckon with both outside tensions from neighboring, colonized villages as well as internal changes when a war sparks between their old gods and a girl who can fly.
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English
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"After losing both her older sister and her father, seventeen-year-old Nani, drawn to a self-proclaimed man of God who offers her a new place to belong, finds herself tethered to an abusive husband by her children and must find the courage to break free without losing what she loves most"--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2016.
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328 pages : maps ; 21 cm
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English
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A young Nigerian girl, displaced during their civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community until the pair are discovered and must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices.
9) Freshwater
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An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born with one foot on the other side. Unsettling, heartwrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the...
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Everyman's library volume 327
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
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xix, 513 p. ; 21cm.
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English
11) After the rain
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English
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"The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chiomamust embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold...
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"For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs. The eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, Patience lives a sheltered life in Ibadan, but within the walls of their mansion, her distant father and stepmother Modupe offer no comfort. Her only ally in the house is her younger sister, Margaret, but Margaret can only do so much. More than anything,...
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Other Press
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English
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"One of the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World," a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our reality, from the renowned Booker Prize-winning author. A young man finds himself among invisible beings who have built a world based on one principle: that we must repeat every experience until we live it fully for the first time. "Only then can we find what we didn't seek and go where we don't intend to go." Ben Okri navigates...
14) Vagabonds!
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Riverhead Books
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[2022]
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303 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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....
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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313 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Falling hopelessly and inappropriately in love with the first white girl he lays eyes on, Andy Africa, an unusually smart fifteen-year-old in Kontagora, Nigeria, is forced to reckon with his identity and desires and determine how to live on the so-called Cursed Continent. Andrew Aziza is a fifteen-year-old boy living in Kontagora in Northern Nigeria. He lives with his secretive mother, Gloria, and spends his days about town with his droogs, Slim and...
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"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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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-- — “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s -- Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary...
19) Sunburst
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Sky King Ranch volume 2
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English
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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 Haran territory, when she and the girl found themselves taken hostage, along with several others.
And while Ranger...
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Best of 2019, Sent to the Pueblo Chieftain, Part 1
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
Edge of Your Seat Suspense & Thrillers
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Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
Edge of Your Seat Suspense & Thrillers
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Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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