Adjoa Andoh
1) Matrix
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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2020.
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"The next book in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series sees Precious Ramotswe calling upon all her maternal instincts when she's faced with a two-ton case. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but can Mma Ramotswe and therest of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency come together to raise a pipsqueak pachyderm? We may find out in this novel. We may not. Who can say?"--
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Precious Ramotswe's first cases volume 1
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Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
4) The Middler
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2020.
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5 CDs (5 hrs 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Maggie lives in orderly Fennis Wick, protected from the outside world by a boundary. Her brother Jed is an eldest, revered and special, a hero who will soon go off to fight in the war. But Maggie?s just a middle child, a middler, often invisible and ignored, even by her own family. When she chances upon a wanderer girl in hiding, she decides she wants to be a hero like her brother and sets out to capture the intruder. But once Maggie peeks past the...
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"Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before her...
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An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl.
Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self.
Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their...
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2017.
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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2024.
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"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"--
11) Mary Seacole
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Mary Seacole spent much of her life on the front lines of the Crimean War, ministering to the wounded, caring for soldiers, and making her mark on the world of medicine. This fascinating biography honors her life, from her childhood in Kingston, Jamaica, and her encounters with racist Americans to her treatment of cholera patients in Panama and her bitter run-in with Florence Nightingale, who declined to work with her in Crimea because she wasn't...
12) Women in Science
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With this new audio collection of Little People, BIG DREAMS stories, you'll learn about the lives of some amazing women in science.
This set includes stories about:
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Hedy Lamarr, an actress and an inventor who created technology that is used in Bluetooth devices today.
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Marie Curie, the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize
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Zaha Hadid, the queen of architecture, known for her logic-defying curvy buildings
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Mae...
13) Nature Champions
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With this new audio collection of Little People, BIG DREAMS stories, you'll learn about the lives of some groundbreaking people who have bettered our understanding of the natural world.
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Jane Goodall, who lived with gorillas to study them and furthered humanity's understanding of animals
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Steve Irwin, the world-famous crocodile hunter whose mission was to show that even the most fearsome creatures...
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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24 CDs (30 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across a century, with Rebecca West's classic account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time), and yet it also explores the...
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If your body could talk, is a book, written for women, struggling to find time for their bodies, written by a woman, who has been there and experienced it firsthand. If your body could talk is, a collection of letters written from your body to you.
Ask yourself the question, if your body could talk what would it say?
"Did you hear me at dinner tonight when I was trying to signal that we were full?"
"I felt so good after you did that workout today....