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Paradise by Toni Morrison
₦4,000“They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison’s first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black small town in rural Oklahoma. Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.
In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.
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Tar Baby By Toni Morrison
₦4,000Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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Normal Calm By Hend Hegazi
₦4,000Normal Calm By Hend Hegazi is about Amina an Arab American woman attending one of the best universities in the US. During the spring of her junior year, Amina is raped by one of her friends, making her essentially unmarriageable in the eyes of her parents and, possibly, the entire Arab community.
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Sandcastles & Snowmen: A Personal Search for Spirituality
₦24,000- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Fb Partners; first edition (1 June 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0985751223
- ISBN-13: 978-0985751227
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 1.6 x 22.9 cm
Sahar El-Nadi’s new book demystifies Islam and Muslims. From a female leader’s worldwide perspective, Sandcastles & Snowmen explores faith through the story of a woman on a personal journey to search for spirituality, leading her to reconnect with Islam in a new, global context in the turbulent post 9/11 world. While taking the reader on a beautiful journey to discover the self and the world, Sahar El-Nadi tells her personal story of life, faith, and triumph. A brave woman and an intellectual thinker, Sahar reveals in eloquent English the Islamic perspective of Reward and Punishment, Manners and Ethics, Human Rights and more.
This book is for the global reader, to inform and inspire and to help break barriers and encourage communication across divides of race and creed. It is also a good tool for addressing integration issues related to Muslim immigrants and asylum seekers. But most of all, this book is meant to show how women can help make this a better world, by reaching out and speaking up, to challenge ignorance and hate and to engage the world in a peaceful dialogue based on facts, mutual respect and friendship
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A Thousand Pardons: A Novel Paperback
₦3,500- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (August 6, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812983386
- ISBN-13: 978-0812983388
- Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
₦3,500- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; Reprint edition (July 1, 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 184604488X
- ISBN-13: 978-1846044885
- Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
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The Couple Next Door
₦3,500- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Corgi (20 April 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0552173142
- ISBN-13: 978-0552173148
- Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm
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How to Stop Time
₦5,000- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Books; Main edition (6 July 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1782118616
- ISBN-13: 978-1782118619
- Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.1 x 22 cm
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Black Sheep by Na’ima B. Robert
₦5,500Black Sheep by Na’ima B. Robert When Misha decides to follow her heart, the web of secrets and lies begins to tighten, for Dwayne is not quite who he says he is. And as he struggles to turn his life around while hiding his darker side from Misha
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Reunited in the Desert
₦3,500By Helle Amin
As I approached the house, I was gripped with terror. Call it a mother’s instinct, call it what you will. I knew that something terrible had happened. When I saw that my husband’s car had gone, I feared the worst. I raced into the house and tore through all the bedrooms screaming, sobbing and desperate. I wanted my children so badly. Where were they? Why would he take them? I knew I had to get them back, but how?
Helle Amin seemed to have the perfect life on the tropical island of Bali with her husband and four children. But one day in 2002 this idyllic existence was shattered when she returned home from a shopping trip to find her children gone. It didn’t take long to discover that her Saudi Arabian husband had taken them to live in his home country.With her children thousands of miles away in the totally unfamiliar surroundings of an Islamic state, Helle drew upon her remarkable courage.
Enlisting the help of her friends, she set off for the desert in a desperate attempt to find her beloved boys. Her journey was filled with drama, danger, excitement and sorrow. In the astonishing struggle that followed, Helle was reduced to catching occasional glimpses of her boys as they went to and from school in Jeddah. Some women might have given up, but not Helle. In a male-dominated society, she prepared her case and demanded justice in the Saudi courts.After a long battle, Helle and her boys were reunited forever, and as a testament to her bravery she was a recent Tesco Mum of the Year winner. This gripping story cannot fail to touch any reader’s heart and is packed with adventure, heartache and joy.
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For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman’s Quest for her Stolen Child
₦3,500From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.
She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunts, and wished she had been born a boy. As a feisty teenager in Kabul, she was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. After she made a public show of defiance, she had to flee the country for her life.
A new life of freedom seemed within her grasp,but her father arranged a traditional marriage to a fellow Afghan, who turned out to be a violent man. Beaten, raped and abused, Maryam found joy in the birth of a baby son. But then her brutal husband stole him away far beyond his mother’s reach. For many long years she searched for her lost son, while civil war and Taliban oppression raged back home in Afghanistan.
Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, Jean Sasson, author of Princess, chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.
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Shackled to My Family
₦3,000By Samina Younis
This is the true story of Samina Younis, born in Britain to a strict, religious Muslim family – a family that practices the tradition of forced marriage which they brought back with them from their village in Pakistan. One of seven sisters and two brothers, she was a bitter disappointment to her parents who desperately wanted a son; as a result she suffered terrible physical and mental abuse at the hands of both her mother and father.
At the age of just sixteen, on a trip to Pakistan Samina was told that she must marry her second cousin, a boy she had met only once in her life and for whom she had no affection whatsoever. The writing of this book was Samina’s only way of coming to terms with the life that she had been forced into, the mental conflict over her enduring love for a mother, now dead, who even on her deathbed was compelled to dominate and control her future. The book recounts her struggle against her family and her dramatic escape to a life of her own.