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International Fantasy Series

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[2011]	Viking	349 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

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2018	OverDrive	Tantor Media, Inc	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.

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2011	OverDrive	Penguin Young Readers Group	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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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.

2) Binti: Binti Series, Book 1

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Roswell
Space and Magic

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Westover - Adult Science Fiction

SF OKORA

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[2015]	First edition.	Tom Doherty Associates, LLC	90 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available Westover - Adult Science Fiction SF OKORA Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

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2015	OverDrive	Macmillan Audio	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...

3) Binti: home

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Central - Adult Science Fiction has 2

SF OKORA

Westover - Adult Science Fiction

SF OKORA

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©2017.	First edition.	Tom Doherty Associates	164 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available 3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Science Fiction has 2 SF OKORA Westover - Adult Science Fiction SF OKORA	More Info Place Hold

1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.

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2018	OverDrive	Tantor Media, Inc	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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4) Akata Warrior: Akata Witch Series, Book 2

It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...

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2019	OverDrive	Tantor Media, Inc	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

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2017	OverDrive	Penguin Young Readers Group	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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The newest novel by the author of Akata Witch and the forthcoming Marvel comic book series about Shuri, Black Panther's sister!
"The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!" —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Speak
A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical...

5) Who fears death

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Africa
Beach Reads for Young professionals
Featured List of Authors for Black History Month 2019

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[2010]	Daw Books, Inc	386 pages ; 24 cm	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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2011	OverDrive	DAW	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 5	More Info Check Out OverDrive

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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.

6) Lagoon

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Roswell

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Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2015.	First Saga Press hardcover edition.	Saga Press	304 pages : map ; 22 cm	English	In Transit 3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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"A biologist, a famous rapper, and a rogue soldier become the honor guard and interpreter of humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador in this thriller that combines magician realism and seemingly end-of-the-world high tension"--

7) Binti: the night masquerade

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2018.	First edition.	Tom Doherty Associates	208 pages ; 21 cm	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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2018	OverDrive	Tantor Media, Inc	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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8) Broken places & outer spaces: finding creativity in the unexpected

Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful on the whole, the same cannot be said for the Khoush, who fan the flames of their ancient rivalry with the Meduse.

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Shirlington - Adult New Nonfiction

155.24 OKORA

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[2019]	Simon & Schuster	88 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.	English	Available 2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Shirlington - Adult New Nonfiction 155.24 OKORA Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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"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 happen. Psychedelic bugs crawl her hospital walls; strange...

9) The book of Phoenix: a novel

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Westover - Adult Science Fiction

SF OKORA

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©2015.	Daw Books, Inc	232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.	English	Available Westover - Adult Science Fiction SF OKORA	More Info Place Hold

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"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 of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower...

10) Long live the king

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Central - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH BLACK

Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH BLACK

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2018]	Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC	1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm.	English	Available Central - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH BLACK Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH BLACK	More Info Place Hold

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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.

11) Chicken in the kitchen

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Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2017.	American edition.	Lantana Publishing	1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 25 cm	English	In Transit 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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This story of Nigerian magic awakens readers in the night and takes them on a journey to arrive at another surprrise by morning as a giant chicken in the kitchen, a nature spirit and a pretty courageos little girl embark on an adventure where nothing is quite as it seems. Is the nature spirit that lives in the wooden walls of her house a help or a hindrance? Is the mishcievous giant chicken a friend or a foe?

12) Wakanda forever

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Central - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH WAKAN

Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH WAKAN

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[2018]	Marvel Worldwide, Inc	1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH WAKAN Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH WAKAN	More Info Place Hold

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13) LaGuardia: a very modern story of immigration

"It's Wakanda's best warriors--Okoye, Ayo and Aneka--on a globe-trotting mission to protect the realm at any cost. When they discover a threat from their homeland causing trouble in New York, they'll leap into action--with or without their king. And that brings them to Spider-Man's friendly neighborhood. But former Dora Milaje member Nakia, A.K.A. Malice, has set a trap to lure the Black Panther into her obsessive clutches--beginning by taking out...

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Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH OKORA

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	Berger Books an imprint of Dark Horse Comics	1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm	English	Available Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH OKORA	More Info Place Hold

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"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 continues and the birth of her child nears, Future -- and...

14) Shuri: the search for Black Panther

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Black Lives Matter: Graphic Novels

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GRAPH BLACK

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2019.	Marvel Worldwide, Inc	1 volume : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Graphic Novel has 2 GRAPH BLACK	More Info Place Hold

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15) Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

The world fell in love with her in the movie. Now, the Black Panther's techno-genius sister launches her own adventures - written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! 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...

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2019	OverDrive	Simon & Schuster Audio / TED	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection	More Info Check Out OverDrive

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2019	OverDrive	Simon & Schuster/ TED	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to become our greatest strengths.
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...

16) Ikenga

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17) Binti, The Complete Trilogy: Binti ; Home ; The Night Masquerade: Binti Series, Books 1-3

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20200818	Viking Books for Young Readers	English	On Order 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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2019	OverDrive	DAW	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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18) Octavia E. Butler's Kindred: a graphic novel adaptation

Includes a brand-new Binti story!
Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University.
In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's...

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Duffy, Damian

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GRAPH BUTLE

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2017.	Abrams Comicarts	240 pages : colour ; 25 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Graphic Novel has 2 GRAPH BUTLE	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

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2017	OverDrive	ABRAMS	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully...

19) Shuri: Vol. 2, 24/7 vibranium

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Ayala, Vita

Central - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH SHURI

Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel

GRAPH SHURI

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2019.	Marvel Worldwide, Inc	1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH SHURI Shirlington - Adult Graphic Novel GRAPH SHURI	More Info Place Hold

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20) Infinite stars: the definitive anthology of space opera and military SF

"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 investigate. But she's not the only hero on the case. With New...