Adjoa Andoh
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories. The book is a beautiful work of art.
3) Provenance
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
5) Good bait
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
The head of the Division of Criminal Investigation's Homicide and Serious Crime Unit, Karen Shields, becomes involved in a gang war after a Moldovan boy's murder.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
After her husband, the greatest love of her life, commits suicide, a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man she'll never forget.
Here are three things you should know about my husband:
He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado.
He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy. Which is significant because…
On...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A Finalist for The Governor General's Award for Nonfiction
"The extraordinary memoir of a woman who lived through the cataclysmic events that shaped modern Ethiopian history. The narrative, which is lovingly and expertly put together by her granddaughter, is a window into a world that would otherwise be invisible to us." - Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year...