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1) Accra noir
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[2020] | Akashic Books | 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D ACCRA |
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2020 | OverDrive | Akashic Books | English | Available Online
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"Accra is the perfect setting for noir fiction. The telling of such tales--ones involving or suggesting death, with a protagonist who is flawed or devious, driven by either a self-serving motive or one of the seven deadly sins--is woven into the fabric of the city's everyday life... Accra is more than just a capital city. It is a microcosm of Ghana. It is a virtual map of the nation's soul, a complex geographical display of its indigenous presence,...
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©[2020] | Akashic Books | 243 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Detective 1 available D ADDIS |
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2020 | OverDrive | Akashic Books | English | Available Online
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Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don't.
"Several of the 14 stories here, most of them striking and accomplished, involve post-revolution loss, guilt and revenge. Some are surreal—fitting for a culture where, as Mengiste writes in her introduction, 'there are men who live in the mountains of Ethiopia and can turn into hyenas.'"
—Washington
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2021. | First Picador paperback edition. | Picador | 145 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F DIOP |
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2020 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal...
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2007. | First Simon Pulse edition. | Simon Pulse | 489 pages ; 18 cm | English |
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In a world where the pale-skinned Naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a Naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their love is strong enough to survive their society's racism.
5) Bone
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2017. | Penguin Books | xvi, 141 pages ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 821 DALEY |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and the inner self. Bone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence--so clear and pared-down, they become universal. From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society's expectations with the raw...
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©2014. | Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | xiv, 688 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F JAMES |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Checked Out
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2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
7) Broken glass
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2018. | Soft Skull | 162 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction 1 available F MABAN |
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In a country that appears to have forgotten the importance of remembering, a former schoolteacher and bar regular nicknamed Broken Glass has been elected to record their stories for posterity. But Broken Glass fails spectacularly at staying out of trouble as one denizen after another wants to rewrite history in an attempt at making sure his portrayal will properly reflect their exciting and dynamic lives. Despondent over this apparent triumph of self-delusion...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F EMEZI
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F EMEZI
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F EMEZI
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | Riverhead Books | 248 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F EMEZI Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F EMEZI Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F EMEZI |
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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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"--
Southeastern Nigeria. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adulthood, Vivek finds solace in friendships with the boisterous daughters of the Nigerwives,...
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[2019] | Astoria | 257 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F REIDB |
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"Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle--of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a "true" Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother's rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too "faas" or too "quiet" or too "bold" or too "soft." Set in "Little Jamaica," Toronto's Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these twelve interconnected...
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The Brown sisters volume 1
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Available
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First edition. | Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | viii, 369 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available F HIBBE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F HIBBE Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F HIBBE |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost-but not quite-dying, she's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family's mansion. The next items? Enjoy a drunken night out. Ride a motorcycle. Go camping. Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. And... do something...
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2020. | First US edition. | Tin House | 545 pages ; 23 cm | English |
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2020 | OverDrive | Tin House Books | English | Available Online
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"In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small village of Nattetta-her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts, but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow. Complicating these feelings of abandonment, as Kirabo comes of age she feels the emergence of a mysterious second self, a headstrong and confusing...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First Grove Atlantic edition. | Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic | 464 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F EVARI |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | Grove Atlantic | English | Available Online
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"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...
13) Haiti Noir
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Publication Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2010 | OverDrive | Akashic Books | English | Checked Out
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"A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island," from a lineup of authors including two National Book Award finalists (Kirkus Reviews).
"The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to its triumphs, from...
"The Haitian-born Danticat has brought her country's literature back into the world of English-speakers. Filled with delights and surprises, Haiti Noir, taken as a whole, provides a profound portrait of the country, from its crises to its triumphs, from...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Westover - Adult Fiction 2 available
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Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 278 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MEDIE Westover - Adult Fiction 2 available F MEDIE |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Workman Audio | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | Algonquin Books | English | Available Online
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"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world."--
A seamstress in Gana, Afi Tekple is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother...
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Poppy and Serena volume 1
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2012. | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 12 audio discs (14 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F KOOMS |
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2012. | Thorndike Press | 643 pages (large print) ; 23. | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F KOOMS |
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Years after being convicted of a high-profile murder, Poppy Carlisle searches for her teenage friend, Serena Gorringe, to set the record straight, but Serena isn't sure she wants to revisit a past that will severely impact her present.
16) Lagos noir
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[2018] | Akashic Books | 217 pages : map ; 22 cm. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Detective 1 available D LAGOS |
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
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2014, | Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) | 358 pages : map ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F YANIQ Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F YANIQ |
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"In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s,...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F FORNA
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F FORNA
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[2010] | Atlantic Monthly Press | 445 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F FORNA Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F FORNA |
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Adrian Lockheart is a psychologist escaping his life in England. Arriving in Freetown in the wake of civil war, he struggles with the intensity of the heat, dirt and dust, and with the secrets this country hides. Despite the gulf of experience and understanding between them, Adrian finds unexpected friendship in a young surgeon at the hospital, the charismatic Kai Mansaray, and begins to build a new life. In the hospital Adrian encounters an elderly...
19) NW: a novel
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F SMITH
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
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Columbia Pike - Recently Returned 1 available
F SMITH
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c2012 | Penguin Press | 401 p. ; 25 cm. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F SMITH Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F SMITH Columbia Pike - Recently Returned 1 available F SMITH |
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[2012] | Unabridged. | Penguin Group USA | 9 audio discs (approximately 11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F SMITH |
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2012 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2012 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan - try to make adult lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their London is a complicated place, as beautiful as it is brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end."--From publisher's information.
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Aurora Hills - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
SF SERPE
Central - Adult Science Fiction 3 available
SF SERPE
Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction 2 available
SF SERPE
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[2019] | First edition. | Hogarth | 566 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Science Fiction 1 available SF SERPE Central - Adult Science Fiction 3 available SF SERPE Shirlington - Adult Science Fiction 2 available SF SERPE |
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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 epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man's greatest nemesis. The tale? A playful panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. The moral? To err is human.