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Atinuke Banks, Russell Burke, James Lee Cussler, Clive Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia Okorafor, NnediNwaubani, Adaobi Tricia
Summary: Based on interviews with young women kidnapped by Boko Haram, this novel is the story of a girl taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival in the forest where she is forced to follow her captors' radical beliefs and watch her best friend succumb to them.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC NWAOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Affectionately dubbed 'the Nigerian Harry Potter, ' Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OKOAtinuke
Summary: "The team behind Baby Goes to Market and B Is for Baby visit a Nigerian village for a humorous ode to childhood ingenuity. Lami is the best chicken catcher in the whole village. Her sister may be speedy at spelling, her friend fast at braiding hair, and her brother brave with bulls, but when it comes to chickens, nobody is faster or braver than Lami. That is, until the day when Lami chases a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Cussler, Clive
Summary: "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 this thrilling addition to Clive Cussler's bestselling series. 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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2019
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSBanks, Russell
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BANBurke, James Lee
Summary: The shocking death of a young woman leads Detective Dave Robicheaux into the dark corners of Hollywood, the mafia, and the backwoods of Louisiana to solve the mystery.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019