Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115014
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Season of Crimson Blossoms
Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115014
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115014
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Whispering Trees
Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher: Parresia Publishers
ISBN: 9789237251
Category : Short stories, Nigerian (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’s the mysterious butterfly girl who just might be a incarnation of Ohikwo’s long dead mother; there’s also a flummoxed white woman caught between two Nigerian brothers and an unfolding scandal, and, of course, the two medicine men of Mazade who battle against their egos, an epidemic and an enigmatic witch.
Publisher: Parresia Publishers
ISBN: 9789237251
Category : Short stories, Nigerian (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Whispering Trees, award winning writer Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s debut collection of short stories, employs nuance, subtle drama and deadpan humour to capture colourful Nigerian lives. There’s Kyakkyawa, who sparks forbidden thoughts in her father and has a bit of angels and witches in her; there’s the mysterious butterfly girl who just might be a incarnation of Ohikwo’s long dead mother; there’s also a flummoxed white woman caught between two Nigerian brothers and an unfolding scandal, and, of course, the two medicine men of Mazade who battle against their egos, an epidemic and an enigmatic witch.
Song of the Crimson Flower
Author: Julie C. Dao
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524738352
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns comes a fantastical new tale of darkness and love, in which magical bonds are stronger than blood. Will love break the spell? After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor physician's apprentice who loves her, Lan, a wealthy nobleman's daughter, regrets her actions. So when she finds Bao's prized flute floating in his boat near her house, she takes it into her care, not knowing that his soul has been trapped inside it by an evil witch, who cursed Bao, telling him that only love will set him free. Though Bao now despises her, Lan vows to make amends and help break the spell. Together, the two travel across the continent, finding themselves in the presence of greatness in the forms of the Great Forest's Empress Jade and Commander Wei. They journey with Wei, getting tangled in the webs of war, blood magic, and romance along the way. Will Lan and Bao begin to break the spell that's been placed upon them? Or will they be doomed to live out their lives with black magic running through their veins? In this fantastical tale of darkness and love, some magical bonds are stronger than blood.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524738352
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
From the acclaimed author of Forest of a Thousand Lanterns comes a fantastical new tale of darkness and love, in which magical bonds are stronger than blood. Will love break the spell? After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor physician's apprentice who loves her, Lan, a wealthy nobleman's daughter, regrets her actions. So when she finds Bao's prized flute floating in his boat near her house, she takes it into her care, not knowing that his soul has been trapped inside it by an evil witch, who cursed Bao, telling him that only love will set him free. Though Bao now despises her, Lan vows to make amends and help break the spell. Together, the two travel across the continent, finding themselves in the presence of greatness in the forms of the Great Forest's Empress Jade and Commander Wei. They journey with Wei, getting tangled in the webs of war, blood magic, and romance along the way. Will Lan and Bao begin to break the spell that's been placed upon them? Or will they be doomed to live out their lives with black magic running through their veins? In this fantastical tale of darkness and love, some magical bonds are stronger than blood.
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Author: Charlie English
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008126650
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008126650
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world's most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda, added another layer to the legend. To Westerners, the name "Timbuktu" long conjured a tantalising paradise, an African El Dorado where even the slaves wore gold. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, a series of explorers gripped by the fever for "discovery" tried repeatedly to reach the fabled city. But one expedition after another went disastrously awry, succumbing to attack, the climate, and disease. Timbuktu was rich in another way too. A medieval centre of learning, it was home to tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts, on subjects ranging from religion to poetry, law to history, pharmacology, and astronomy. When al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents, a remarkable thing happened: a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the manuscripts into hiding. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines these two suspenseful strands into a fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become inseparable
The Quest for Nina
Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher: Raider Pub International
ISBN: 9781935383208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Seven years after he buried her, Biko Maiyaki could not let go of the memory of the woman he had loved, the woman who had loved him, the woman who had been his wife for three wonderful years. His obsession leads him to decode her diaries and start reading them and from the pages of her diary, Nina's enigmatic character sizzles to life and in a winding tale of discovery, leads Biko to some very disturbing secrets about her life that had everything to do with his life, with his past - his proud family's past. He discovers that the love of his life had in fact been an angel of vengeance that was out to rout his entire family for an offence someone in his family had committed. In his engaging quest, he discovers some truths that rocked the very foundation of everything he had believed in, disturbing truths he should never have known about his life, his family's life - truths that lead him to reincarnate the vengeful monster that Nina's love and supreme sacrifice have reluctantly laid to rest.
Publisher: Raider Pub International
ISBN: 9781935383208
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Seven years after he buried her, Biko Maiyaki could not let go of the memory of the woman he had loved, the woman who had loved him, the woman who had been his wife for three wonderful years. His obsession leads him to decode her diaries and start reading them and from the pages of her diary, Nina's enigmatic character sizzles to life and in a winding tale of discovery, leads Biko to some very disturbing secrets about her life that had everything to do with his life, with his past - his proud family's past. He discovers that the love of his life had in fact been an angel of vengeance that was out to rout his entire family for an offence someone in his family had committed. In his engaging quest, he discovers some truths that rocked the very foundation of everything he had believed in, disturbing truths he should never have known about his life, his family's life - truths that lead him to reincarnate the vengeful monster that Nina's love and supreme sacrifice have reluctantly laid to rest.
The Crimson Queen
Author: Alec Hutson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998227603
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord. The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man. But after a thousand years it has begun to quicken again. In a small fishing village a boy with strange powers comes of age . . . A young queen rises in the west, fanning the long-smoldering embers of magic into a blaze once more . . . Something of great importance is stolen - or freed - from the mysterious Empire of Swords and Flowers . . . And the immortals who survived the ancient cataclysms bestir themselves, casting about for why the world is suddenly changing . . .
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998227603
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Long ago the world fell into twilight, when the great empires of old consumed each other in sorcerous cataclysms. In the south the Star Towers fell, swallowed by the sea, while the black glaciers descended upon the northern holdfasts, entombing the cities of Min-Ceruth in ice and sorcery. Then from the ancient empire of Menekar the paladins of Ama came, putting every surviving sorcerer to the sword and cleansing their taint from the land for the radiant glory of their lord. The pulse of magic slowed, fading like the heartbeat of a dying man. But after a thousand years it has begun to quicken again. In a small fishing village a boy with strange powers comes of age . . . A young queen rises in the west, fanning the long-smoldering embers of magic into a blaze once more . . . Something of great importance is stolen - or freed - from the mysterious Empire of Swords and Flowers . . . And the immortals who survived the ancient cataclysms bestir themselves, casting about for why the world is suddenly changing . . .
Breaking the Silence
Author: Mũthoni wa Gĩchũrũ
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966256034
Category : Rape
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966256034
Category : Rape
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Crimson China
Author: Betsy Tobin
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1907595333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a tragic, hidden world that runs in parallel to our own. It is a story of identity and culture, of the irrepressibility of the human spirit, and the powerful undertow of love.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1907595333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader at the outset, shining a light on a tragic, hidden world that runs in parallel to our own. It is a story of identity and culture, of the irrepressibility of the human spirit, and the powerful undertow of love.
A Tree for the Birds
Author: Vernon R. L. Head
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781431425655
Category : Ecofiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In this long-awaited follow-up to his international success, The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World, Vernon Head once again reveals his mastery of the genre of nature writing. This time with a novel, A Tree for the Birds. In this remarkable book, Head captivates and enchants us as he tells of the adventures of Chrisnelt, Chaminda and Pastor Kadazi as they navigate deep into the mysterious world of the Congo River, the Great Dancing Road. This story of a boy's quest contains an urgent ecological message: a plea to break down the boundaries that humans impose on the world and to reconnect with the eternal, life-sustaining cycles of nature. Head offers a novel of profound beauty. Set in the heart of Africa, this powerful story at the edge of damnation bends a reflection of all of us through the eyes of a birdwatcher who sees wings fly like escaping leaves on streams of eternal water and air for all. The book reveals Head's deep love for nature and his penetrating and startling way of seeing birds. This story will fascinate birdwatchers, twitchers, bird lovers and birders-in-training alike."--
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 9781431425655
Category : Ecofiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In this long-awaited follow-up to his international success, The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World, Vernon Head once again reveals his mastery of the genre of nature writing. This time with a novel, A Tree for the Birds. In this remarkable book, Head captivates and enchants us as he tells of the adventures of Chrisnelt, Chaminda and Pastor Kadazi as they navigate deep into the mysterious world of the Congo River, the Great Dancing Road. This story of a boy's quest contains an urgent ecological message: a plea to break down the boundaries that humans impose on the world and to reconnect with the eternal, life-sustaining cycles of nature. Head offers a novel of profound beauty. Set in the heart of Africa, this powerful story at the edge of damnation bends a reflection of all of us through the eyes of a birdwatcher who sees wings fly like escaping leaves on streams of eternal water and air for all. The book reveals Head's deep love for nature and his penetrating and startling way of seeing birds. This story will fascinate birdwatchers, twitchers, bird lovers and birders-in-training alike."--
Season of Crimson Blossoms
Author: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115007
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The story of an illicit affair between a devout 55-year-old widow and a 25-year-old gang leader, set in Northern Nigeria.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911115007
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The story of an illicit affair between a devout 55-year-old widow and a 25-year-old gang leader, set in Northern Nigeria.