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And Then He Sang a Lullaby by Ani Kay...
August is a God-fearing track star who leaves Enugu City to attend university and escape his overbearing sisters. He carries the weight of their lofty expectations, the shame of facing himself, and the haunting memory of a mother he never knew. It’s his first semester and pressures aside, August is making friends, doing well in his classes. He even almost has a girlfriend. There’s only one problem: he can’t stop thinking about Segun, an openly gay student who works at a local cybercafé. Segun carries his own burdens and has been wounded in too many ways. When he meets August, their connection is undeniable, but Segun is reluctant to open himself up to August. He wants to love and be loved by a man who is comfortable in his own skin, who will see and hold and love Segun, exactly as he is.
Despite their differences, August and Segun forge a tender intimacy that defies the violence around them. But there is only so long Segun can stand being loved behind closed doors, while August lives a life beyond the world they’ve created together. And when a new, sweeping anti-gay law is passed, August and Segun must find a way for their love to survive in a Nigeria that was always determined to eradicate them. A tale of rare bravery and profound beauty, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is an extraordinary debut that marks Ani as a voice to watch.
Thread of Gold Beads: A Novel by Nike...
Amelia, daughter of the last independent King of Danhome, King Ghehanzin, is the apple of her father’s eye, loved beyond measure by her mother, and overprotected by her siblings. She searches for her place within the palace amidst conspirators and traitors to the Kingdom. Just when Amelia begins to feel at home in her role as Princess, a well kept secret shatters the perfect life she knows.
Someone else within the palace also knows and does everything to bring the secret to light. A struggle between good and evil ensues causing Amelia to leave all that she knows and loves. She must flee Danhome with her brother, to south-western Nigeria. In a faraway land, she finds the love of a new family and God. The well-kept secret thought to have been dead and buried, resurrects with the flash of a thread of gold beads. Amelia must fight for her life and what is left of her soul.
Set during the French-Danhome war of the late 1890s in Benin Republic and early 1900s in Abeokuta and Lagos, South-Western Nigeria, Thread of Gold Beads is a delicate love story, and coming of age of a young girl. It clearly depicts the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversities.
A DOUBLE BACK through life
Jimmy has spent his life navigating two worlds: the literal shack of a captive township dog, and the metaphorical kennel of human society, defined and shaped by power and hypocrisy. with a canine's clarity, he picks out betrayal before it is obvious. He yearns to discover more about his past life, and most importantly his relationship with his master. This puts him on an endless road where he has strange dreams which bring him closer to unmasking his deeply held beliefs, and the truth about his master.
With the help of Chele, a co-reincarnate from the previous life, Jimmy occasionally experiences eerie flow states of the life he has lived before. Jimmy is forced to confront the ultimate 'kin recognition'. As the pieces of his life begin to fit together, Jimmy must face the critical question: Is the truth about his master a key to his freedom, or just another collar around his neck?
Still I Breathe
'About the Book'
'Still, I Breathe' is a moving memoir of faith, resilience, and redemption. Through the author's journey in Makueni Women Prison, the author shares how hope, forgiveness, and God's grace transformed her pain into purpose. This inspiring story reminds readers that their past does not define their future and that even in the darkest moments, there is always a reason to keep breathing.
The Confidence Project
When the art of disappearing becomes a barrier to your future, how far will you go to finally be seen?
Maya Brooks has mastered the art of being invisible. A quiet, diligent student at Northwood University, she prefers the safety of back-row seats and staying under the radar. But when a panic-stricken presentation leaves her academic future—and her dream of a career in public relations—in jeopardy, Maya is forced into a deal that changes everything.
Professor David Reynolds, recognizing the untapped potential beneath her fear, offers Maya a life-altering ultimatum: participate in the "Confidence Project," a semester-long gauntlet of challenges designed to push her out of her comfort zone, or lose the chance for the prestigious internship she has worked years to earn.
Desperate for change, Maya reluctantly accepts. Her partner in this journey is the last person she expected: Ethan Carter, the debate team captain and campus celebrity who seems to have it all. But beneath his charismatic exterior, Ethan is fighting his own battles with expectations, reputation, and the crushing pressure of a future he isn't sure he wants.
As Maya and Ethan navigate a series of increasingly difficult challenges, they discover that confidence isn't about being fearless—it's about learning to move forward despite the fear. In a world of rumors and expectations, can two students learn to trust themselves enough to write their own stories?
A story of courage, connection, and the messy, beautiful work of becoming who you were meant to be.
111 POEMS: One Voice by KELVIN LILLAN...
Some books are written. This one was lived. 111 Poems is a raw, emotionally charged collection born over a decade in the shadow of the Ngong Hills, a place that became home, witness, and muse. Spanning faith and doubt, love and loss, the resilience carved out of struggle, and the quiet beauty of the natural world, these 111 poems trace the full arc of a human life.
The final poem, a tribute to Ngong itself, closes the collection the way all honest journeys end, by honouring the ground that held you.
For every reader who has ever found poetry in a place, a season, or a silence, this collection is yours.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 3
Deductive Logico is ready to kick back and relax on his long-awaited vacation…but murder doesn’t take time off. In Murdle: Volume 3, these clever and hilarious mini-mystery puzzles will challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why.
• Use your skills of deduction to solve each mystery one by one.
• Reveal the mastermind behind the SPY secret agency and discover the secret location of TekTopia.
• Uncover the truth about the evil AI supercomputer MORIARTY before it’s too late!
Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 3 is a thrilling casebook for the armchair detective in everyone.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 2
Deductive Logico is back on the scene in Murdle: Volume 2. Based on the sensational hit online game, these clever and hilarious mini-mystery puzzles will challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Unearth the dark secrets of the Violet Isles, solve the riddles of an ancient and mysterious scholar, and explore the haunted lands of Drakonia. . . if you dare.
Packed with pictures, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 2 is a thrilling casebook for the armchair detective in each of us.
Murdle by G.T Karber: Volume 1
G. T. Karber, the creator of the popular online daily mystery game Murdle, presents the first collection of 100 original murder mystery logic puzzles―a perfect gift for armchair detectives and puzzlers to hone their minds and solve a series of crimes.
Who committed the ghastly deed?
What weapon was used to dispatch the victim?
Where did the calculated demise occur?
Join Deductive Logico and investigate murders most foul in Murdle: Volume 1. The first of their kind, these humorous mini-mystery puzzles challenge you to find whodunit, how, where, and why. Examine the clues, interview the witnesses, and use the power of deduction to complete the grid and catch the culprit. Together, you’ll uncover a buried secret beneath all of the murders and a message that can only be decrypted when you’ve solved them all.
Packed with illustrations, codes, and maps, and brimming with wit and intrigue, Murdle: Volume 1 is the must-have detective casebook for the secret sleuth in everyone.
THE MWALIMU FILES Project: Jap’s Orig...
Before Zuri Odhiambo returned from MIT to burn it all down, Japheth Ochieng built it all up. A mathematics teacher in a Kenyan fishing village watches the future arrive in the form of lithium mines and algorithmic surveillance. When the system kills his cousin and recruits his resistance, Jap must choose between the manageable life he's been performing and the unmanageable revolution that will cost him everything—including two fingers, his teaching career, and the girl he loves. Set five years before the events of from Crisis to Resilience, this novella traces the birth of Mau Mau Digital through six classified surveillance files, each revealing how the algorithm learns to predict a man who refuses to be predicted.
LIGHT IN THE MIDST by Grace Lasoi
A Kampala Murder Plot: A Novel by Uly...
A Kampala Murder Plot is about a murder that takes place shortly after a guerrilla force takes over state power and most police officers are still in hiding. The guerrillas are handling (but also mishandling) police work with cheerful disregard for police procedure - a seemingly heinous offence in the eyes of the few returned cops that include the domineering Director of CID.
Corporal Shell Sonko, briskly solving cases of jealous-husband-wife tiffs and also of citizens hurt on either side of the just-ended civil war, is accosted by Julia Koko, the dazzling dame from Germany, whose niece, Dona Kyobe Mazzi, was recently murdered in a brutal multiple homicide that Koko feels police mishandled, ignored and even prematurely closed.
Employing common sense gained from reading lots of fiction and not much else, Corporal Sonko delves into the murder, quizzing big, sometimes nasty, tycoon suspects and their women, who include the wealthy and mercurial bully Jimmy Bikomago and his woman, the stunning Victoria Ntanya.
Finally, from a line of likely and unlikely suspects, Sonko tentatively brings his investigation to a plausible conclusion, to the bafflement of all present but also to the chagrin of the rather toothless but quite barky Director of CID.
DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono ...
The poems in this selection are drawn from Otiono's two published collections, Voices in the Rainbow, and Love in a Time of Nightmares, and the volume includes previously unpublished new poems. Peter Midgley’s introduction contextualizes Otiono’s work within the frame of physical and spiritual mobility, diaspora, and newer critical frames like Afropolitanism, attending to form as well as his political engagement. The volume concludes with an interview of the poet by Chris Dunton that touches on the nature of poetry, language loss, and diasporic identities.
Love in a Time of Nightmares: Poems b...
“How might we make music in a burning house? Love in a Time of Nightmares shows us how. Lacerating and lyrical, these songs are fragments out of a still raging storm whose other name is Nigeria. Tenderness knits despair and hope together in this daring collection, and the product is the ambiguity that must be the stance of all those who dare sing in the midst of an inferno.” —Ike Okonta, Department of Politics, University of Oxford, UK “Nduka Otiono’s excellent book begins a dialogue between Canadian poetics and the rich resources of Nigerian poetry…. Africa has much to teach us, and here is an ideal place to learn…. Come and listen. You will be enchanted.” —Bert Almon, poet and Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada “Only an accomplished poet can write these remarkable poems, haunting and enchanting songs in smooth-flowing lines. Love in a Time of Nightmares is definitely mature and exhilarating…a memorable collection. You can’t help but be mesmerized by these poems.” —Tanure Ojaide, poet and Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Voices in the Rainbow: Poems by Nduka...
In Voices in the Rainbow, the poet-protagonist sees himself as the “griot of a threatened tradition.” The poems in this collection are therefore a heroic effort to rescue the ancestral oral tradition of bards and raconteurs from obsolescence by reinventing its tropes and techniques within the tradition of the written word. The use of musical accompaniment, of criers and choruses, and the resources and rhythms of song and chant as integral part of these poems lend them a multi-layered dimension which further reinforce the stylistic virtuosity displayed in the author’s earlier award-winning collection of short stories, The Night Hides with a Knife. The delight of the present volume is that it presents us with a palimpsest from which we can read back through contemporary poetic forms to an archaeology of the most ancient of poetic forms and devices. The range of voices extend from T.S. Eliot to Okigbo and a broad spectrum of new Nigerian poets. Poems take off from other poems, spiral into yet other poets to create a veritable symphony of voices as harmoniously blended as the colours of the rainbow.
Judge Stone: A Legal Thriller by Jame...
All rise…for Judge Stone.
The most respected citizen in Union Springs, Alabama (population 3,314), is Judge Mary Stone. She holds two responsibilities sacred: running her family farm and presiding over her courtroom. Everything changes when she draws the most controversial case in the history of the South.
Criminally, it’s open-and-shut.
Ethically, there is no middle ground.
Essentially, it’s a choice between life and death.
No judge can satisfy everyone. It would be dangerous to try. But Judge Stone is willing to fight to bring justice to the people and place she loves.
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ ...
You’ve heard of the men who kill, but what about the women who loved them?
It’s a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. They may look like they lead idyllic lives but behind the false smiles and glittering pools lies the truth: their husbands are some of the country’s most notorious serial killers.
Amidst neighbourhood gossip and pointed fingers, Beverley, Elsie and Margot are fighting to forge new paths for themselves. But when a string of local killings hits the news, the women – underestimated and overlooked – are hurled into an investigation of their own.
The Heist By James Patterson
A rare masterpiece by Picasso is about to go to auction, and the whole world is watching.
But bright art student Halston Graham sees an opportunity. One that could secure millions for her future – and freedom for her wrongly imprisoned father…
To pull off the crime of the century, she must assemble an unlikely crack team: an expert in forgery, a ruthless mob boss, and an eccentric fashion designer.
In a game where trust is a luxury and failure is not an option, will Halston’s brilliance be enough to outsmart her enemies?