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2) Sunburst
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When former Navy Seal and lifelong bachelor Ranger Kingston is called upon to take part in a rescue mission to save his brother Colt, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria, he is shocked to find among the hostages, a woman he knows and could never forget.
Noemi Sutton was attempting to return a young girl to her family in Boko Haran territory, when she and the girl found themselves taken hostage, along with several others.
And while Ranger...
3) Ikenga
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
4) Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northeast Nigeria. When a group of schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram, they suffer incarceration, horror, and hunger. A hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest leads, not so much to freedom as to a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. Throughout her ordeal the narrator survives through her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human...
5) Olu & Greta
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Two cousins--one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Milan, Italy--have different lives, but they share a dream of meeting and being together.
Author
Series
Silverstone volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
When...Smoke...ventures into the Nigerian jungle with his team of government assassins, his mission is clear: get in, kill the target, and make it out alive...Schoolteacher Molly finds herself kidnapped along with a hundred schoolgirls in the jungle. But when Smoke finds them, Molly thinks her luck might be turning around, until she returns to the US to find her beloved grandparents murdered. Devastated by their deaths...Molly turns to Smoke for comfort....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comic Art
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
13) Akata witch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing both her older sister and her father, seventeen-year-old Nani, drawn to a self-proclaimed man of God who offers her a new place to belong, finds herself tethered to an abusive husband by her children and must find the courage to break free without losing what she loves most"--
15) Lightseekers
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students.
16) Rebel sisters
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus.
18) Too small Tola
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents three tales of an endearing and enduring character, Tola, who lives in an apartment in the busy city of Lagos, Nigeria, with her sister, brother and grandmommy.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband -- these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she...
20) Stay with me
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yejide and Akin fell in love and married while at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide agreed polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-- after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures-- Yejide is still not pregnant. When her family arrives with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get...
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