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• Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  In the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rage of Dragons

  Winter, Evan

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  The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every two thousand women has the power to call down dragons.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Queen of Zazzau

  Emuakpor, J. S.

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  Amina is heir apparent to the throne of Zazzau and must prove herself worthy of the crown. As foreign invaders close in on them, she is the only thing standing between her people and their destruction. Caught in a web of prophecies and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of Blood and Bone

  Adeyemi, Tomi

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  They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Fears Death

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Son of the Storm

  Okungbowa, Suyi Davies

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  From one of the most exciting new storytellers in epic fantasy, Son of the Storm is a sweeping tale of violent conquest and forgotten magic set in a world inspired by the pre-colonial empires of West Africa. In the ancient city of Bassa,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Rust

  a Novel

  Bajaber, Khadija Abdalla

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  The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deep

  Solomon, Rivers

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  The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Old Drift

  a Novel

  Serpell, Namwali, 1980-

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  On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. Here begins the story of a small African nation, told by a swarm-like chorus that calls itself…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Intuitionist

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Lila Mae Watson, the city’s first black female inspector and a devout Intuitionist with the highest accuracy rate in the department, is at the center of the turmoil. An elevator in a new municipal building has crashed on Lila Mae’s watch,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gilded Ones

  Forna, Namina

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  Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lesson

  Turnbull, Cadwell

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  The Lesson explores the nature of belief, the impact of colonialism, and asks how far are we willing to go for progress? Breaking ground as one of the first science fiction novels set in the Virgin Islands, The Lesson is not only a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rosewater

  Thompson, Tade

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  Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices. Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

  Oh, Temi

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  When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization—but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Cast a Shadow

  a Novel

  Ruffin, Maurice Carlos

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  How far would you go to protect your child? Our narrator faces an impossible decision. Like any father, he just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is growing larger by the day. In this near-future…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year of the Witching

  Henderson, Alexis

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  A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Delicious Monsters

  Sambury, Liselle

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  Daisy sees dead people—something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto. She usually manages to deal with her unwanted ability, but she’s completely unprepared to be dumped by her boyfriend. So when her mother inherits a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Womb City

  Tsamaase, Tlotlo

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  WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which begs the question: how far must one go to destroy the structures of inequality upon which a society was founded? How far must a mother go to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Caged Ocean Dub

  Glints & Stories

  Falowo, DareSegun

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  There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while an alliance of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe. Falowo’s poetically precise language and spine-tingling plot…Read moreRead more of this annotation