Nnedi Okorafor
1) Akata witch
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Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
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On a future Earth teeming with integrated extraterrestrial life, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka is smuggling an illegal, sentient plant named Letme Live through Laguardia International and Interstellar Airport--and that's not the only thing that she's hiding. Back home in the Bronx at the New Hope Apartments, Future joins a vibrant community of human and alien immigrants in their fight for equality amidst social and political...
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Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, 'Kindred', now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, 'Kindred' continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day. Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel...