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• Black Panther

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  King T'Challa returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as new leader. When two enemies conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must join forces with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pet

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  In the first novel in Marlon James' Dark Star trilogy, African myth, fantasy and history come together in the story of a band of mercenaries hired to find a missing child.

• Invisible Man

  Ellison, Ralph,

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  The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Black college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of Blood and Bone

  Adeyemi, Tomi,

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  Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  After the empire Sanze collapses and the vast continent Stillness becomes ravaged by a red rift which darkens the sky, Essun, whose daughter has been kidnapped by her murderous husband, crosses Stillness in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.

• Death of the Author

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  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  A disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative.

• AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS

  Solomon, Rivers

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  For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Noor

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism, and AO has never really felt...natural. This fast-paced, relentless journey of tribe, destiny, body, and the wonderland of technology revels…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Long 'til Black Future Month?

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• L'intuitionniste

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  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Lila Mae Watson est une "intuitionniste": au sein du département d'inspection des ascenseurs pour lequel elle travaille, elle est capable de deviner le moindre défaut d'un appareil rein qu'en mettant le pied dans une cabine.

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy, then and now.

• Remote Control

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  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.

• AKATA WARRIOR

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The City We Became

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  Every great city has a soul. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can feel the pulse of the city, can see its history, can access its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Underground Railroad

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Colson Whitehead is one of the newer voices in Afrofuturism. In this book, he imagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad that moves through an alternative history in the antebellum South.

• Shuri. Vol. 1, The Search for Black Panther

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  The Black Panther has disappeared, lost on a mission in space. And in his absence, everyone's looking at the next in line for the throne. But Shuri is happiest in a lab, surrounded by gadgets of her own creation. She'd rather be testing gauntlets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Panther. A Nation Under Our Feet

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  T'Challa confronts a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before.

• Windmaker

  Okupe, Roye,

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  With the country of Atala on the brink of civil war, the WindMaker-an ancient hero of the Atalians- mysteriously returns in what appears to be an effort to save his people. The only problem is that his spirit is renicarnated into the last person…Read moreRead more of this annotation