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  • Under The Udala Trees

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    A young girl comes of age in the 1960s during the Nigerian Civil War in this powerful debut novel inspired by Nigerian folktales.Winner, 2016 Lambda Literary Award, Best Lesbian FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of NPR's Best Books of 2015"If you've ever wondered if love can conquer all, read [this] stunning coming of ... ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Happiness, Like Water

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    Winner of the O. Henry Award. "A haunting and startlingly original collection of short stories about the lives of Nigerians both at home and in America."—Julie Otsuka, national bestselling authorHere are Nigerian women at home and transplanted to the United States, building lives out of longing and hope, faith and doubt, the struggle to stay and the mandate to leave, the burden and strength of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harry Sylvester Bird

    A Novel

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    "Disarmingly funny." - The New York TimesFrom the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute satirical novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • This Impossible Life

    A Novel

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    "Thunderous, magnificent...A new book by the brilliant Chinelo Okparanta is always cause for raucous celebration, and this is her masterpiece."-Karen Russell"I simply could not put the book down...A wise and urgent voice in these impossible times.”-Justin TorresFrom the acclaimed author of Under the Udala Trees, a profoundly moving, unforgettable new epic following the aftermath of one ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    This Impossible Life

    A Novel

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    Narrated by Elnathan John, Onyinye Ihezukwu ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    "Thunderous, magnificent...A new book by the brilliant Chinelo Okparanta is always cause for raucous celebration, and this is her masterpiece."-Karen Russell"I simply could not put the book down...A wise and urgent voice in these impossible times.”-Justin TorresFrom the acclaimed author of Under the Udala Trees, a profoundly moving, unforgettable new epic following the aftermath of one ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    Under the Udala Trees

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly.Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Harry Sylvester Bird

    A Novel

    by Chinelo Okparanta ...
    Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees and Happiness, Like Water comes a brilliant, provocative, up-to-the-minute novel about a young white man’s education and miseducation in contemporary America.Harry Sylvester Bird grows up in Edward, Pennsylvania, with his parents, Wayne and Chevy, whom he greatly dislikes. They’re racist, xenophobic, financially incompetent, and they have ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Naomi Xu Elegant ...
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    For fans of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, a beguiling debut novel about finding oneself after heartbreak.After suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum's vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to ... Read more

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    My Parents' Marriage

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    Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated adult debut with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding told through three generations of one Ghanian family.Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father—and tries to be a ... Read more

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    God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer

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    **From the acclaimed author of the memoir Sink, a novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student."Intoxicating, propulsive ... utterly mesmerizing." —Kaveh Akbar, bestselling author of Martyr!**After a deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student and EMS ... Read more

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    Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

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    **This program is read by the author.For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community**"I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!"Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age in the 1980s and '90s. As Razia begins rebelling ... Read more

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    The Fallen Fruit

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    by Shawntelle Madison ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo ...

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    Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic in the vein of Kindred and The Time Traveler's Wife about a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads ... Read more

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