Summary: As the Black Panther and an Avenger, T'Challa has had to save the world time and again - but those duties pale in comparison to his responsibilities as king of Wakanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLAOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport... and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Niger, West Africa, 2077. Welcome back. This second volume is a breathtaking story that sweeps across the sands of the Sahara, flies up to the peaks of the Aïr Mountains, cartwheels into a wild megacity—you get the idea. I am the Desert Magician; I bring water where there is none. This book begins with Dikéogu Obidimkpa slowly losing his mind. Yes, that boy who can bring rain just by thinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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Summary: "The Black Panther has disappeared, lost on a mission in space. And in his absence, everyone's looking at the next in line for the throne. But Shuri is happiest in a lab, surrounded by gadgets of her own creation. She'd rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them. But a nation without a leader is a vulnerable one - and Shuri may have to choose between Wakanda's welfare and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SHUOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York's Tower 7. She is an "accelerated woman"--only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix's abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Nnedi Okorafor was never supposed to be paralyzed. A college track star and budding entomologist, Nnedi's lifelong battle with scoliosis was just a bump in her plan--something a simple operation would easily correct. But when Nnedi wakes from the surgery to find she can't move her legs, her entire sense of self begins to waver. Confined to a hospital bed for months, unusual things begin to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: 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, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellarjourney. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: SF OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOSummary: The Black Panther is not just a super hero; as King T'Challa, he is also the monarch of the hidden African nation of Wakanda. Combining the strength and stealth of his namesake with a creative scientific intelligence, the Black Panther is an icon of Afro-futurist fantasy. This new anthology includes the Black Panther's 1966 origin tale and the entirety of the critically acclaimed "Panther's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BLASummary: A must have, one of a kind, definitive space opera anthology with 15 new stories by top contemporary authors in top franchises as well as classic genre defining tales dating back over 60 plus years. With an introductory essay on space opera by Grand Master Robert Silverberg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd. 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC INFOkorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi.
Summary: Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daw Books, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOAyala, Vita
Summary: "At long last, Shuri faces her destiny! With her brother gone and Wakanda in peril, the Black Panther is needed-and Shuri must step up once again to fill the void. But the Princess of Wakanda is more than any mask - and she's about to face a threat unlike any her home has seen before! When it appears that an enemy of Wakanda has left a signature behind in America, Shuri heads overseas to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 SHUDuffy, Damian
Summary: "Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Comicarts 2018