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43) Yo, Jo!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jomar greets his neighbors using slang, but his grandfather wants to hear some more traditional words.
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country's ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Seven stories, spanning the time period from 1948 to 2000, chronicle the experiences of young people from different races and ethnic groups as they try to cope with the restrictions placed on their lives by South Africa's apartheid laws.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Andrew Brown, winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, has stunned readers in his native South Africa with this intelligent and compelling police procedural set in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Now, Brown is ready to take on America with this top notch mystery series, published here for the first time. In Coldsleep Lullaby the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case....
49) Shadow
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Translation of: La Feticheuse. Free verse evocation of the eerie, shifting images of Shadow which represents the beliefs and ghosts of the past and is brought to life wherever there is light, fire, and a storyteller.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her-and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving...
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, Black-positive messages, from A is for Afro, to F is for Fresh, to W is for Worthy. This book teaches children their ABCs while encouraging them to love the skin that they're in." --
Author
Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not...
55) Anna Hibiscus
Author
Series
Anna Hibiscus books volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. Amazing Africa. She lives with her whole family in a wonderful house. There is always somebody to laugh or play with. She loves to splash in the sea with her cousins and have parties with her aunties. But more than anything else in the world, Anna Hibiscus would love to see snow.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.