Featured Books
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Ambivalent Encounters
By James Yeku
In Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays, James Yeku? speaks powerfully from his personal experiences as a writer and academic living outside a homeland he sometimes recaptures through his poetry and scholarship.
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Imagination’s Many Rooms
$ 21.99By Amatoritsero Ede
Nonfiction/Memoir | Paperback | ISBN: 9781777688493
Imagination’s Many Rooms is a well-crafted collection of bristling essays on different but related subjects. Partly socio-political and literary commentary, partly a young poet’s reminiscences and encounters with global literary and cultural icons, the individual pieces are thematically grouped into sections in an organic anthology. It is written in a highly arresting style, with two of the pieces being essayistic conversations with a dead Canadian writer and a dead Nigerian scholar-poet respectively.
These essays first appeared in the Maple Tree Literary Supplement (MTLS) literary journal in slightly different forms as editorials for specific editions of the Ezine. The essay, “The Example of Mandela” is anthologized as “The Peaceful “Trouble!” in Mandela: Tributes to a Global Icon (Falola 2014).
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Wish Maker
$ 24.99By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Juvenile Fiction (Chapter Book) | Hardcover | ISBN: 9781738699377
Ebele wishes he and his widowed mother would have a memorable Christmas with lots of presents. With his mother barely able to afford food and his friends mocking him, Ebele is afraid that he might not get any presents at all. When a strange man comes to town, Ebele opens his heart and home reluctantly. In return, the stranger teaches him there is more to Christmas than just gifts and that kindness is a virtue rewarded by great fortune.
WISH MAKER tells the story of Ebele, a 9-year-old boy whose widowed mother can’t afford to grant his wish for a bicycle. His friends cannot wait to show off their Christmas presents to Ebele, and they delight in making fun of him because he and his mother are poor. Unable to stand their taunting, Ebele considers hiding indoors during Christmas but meets a quirky, annoying, smelly stranger who claims to be an angel. The stranger, however, makes him realize his wish could come true only if they went fishing in the river where his father died. WISH MAKER is a blend of magic and realism set during Christmas week in a riverine village in southeast Nigeria. By turns sad and funny, it explores themes such as peer pressure, fear, kindness, hope, courage, and friendship.
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A Place Beyond The Heart
$ 25.99By Ireh Iyioha
Fiction/Short Stories | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699339
A Place Beyond the Heart is a collection of short stories exploring issues at the intersection of war and love, terror and (dis)order, as well as identity, gender, and sexuality. The stories capture the lives of people facing personal, societal and transcultural challenges that define, transform, and ultimately create shifts in the way they see and experience the world. These transformations—uplifting, heartrending and sometimes rebellious—unfold in diverse contexts where love, acceptance and tenderness find expression in the most difficult settings, including battlefields, war-ravaged towns, a jailhouse and intangible rooms in a future world.
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Don’t Answer When They Call Your Name
$ 19.99By Ukamaka Olisakwe
YA Fiction | Paperback | ISBN: 9781738699322 | Pages: 144
When the streams suddenly run dry in Ani Mmadu, the people know it is time to atone for a sin that goes back to the very beginning of their world, the consequence of the rebellion of one woman against the all-powerful and unforgiving, jealous god. To avert this catastrophe and for the waters to flow and nourish the farms again, the people must send a child of Aja, chosen by the Oracle, into the Forest of Iniquity, to atone for that great sin. It falls on young Adanne to save her people this time. But the Ajas sent into the dreaded forest tend never to return. Is Adanne the long-awaited one who will buck the trend and end the suffering of her people? This is an extraordinary novel bursting with kaleidoscopic worlds and beings. It is a feat of the imagination from a born storyteller.
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Unbound: An Anthology of New Nigerian Poets Under 40
$ 24.99 Available June 23, 2025.By Nduka Otiono and Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Poetry | Papaerback | ISBN: 9781738699346
The generational debate in Nigerian poetry has been shaped by the interventions of such anthologies as Voices from the Fringes (1988), edited by Harry Garuba, Poets in their Youth (1988), edited Uche Nduka and Ositadinma Ike, Gems Out of Africa: A Wake Anthology of 100 Nigerian Poets (1998), edited by Eddie Ayo-Ojo, Obafemi Obadare and Mac Amarere, and Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Nigerian Writing (2006) edited by Nduka Otiono and Odoh Diego Okenyodo. Featuring the Governor General award-winning Nigerian-Canadian poet, Tolu Oloruntoba, and other notable poets resident in Canadian, Unbound is such an agenda-setting anthology. But more importantly, it is the first anthology to zoom into the works of the emerging generation of Nigerian poets born in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. The anthology showcases some of the most brilliant as well as struggling members of the new generation of Nigerian poets under the age of forty, most of whom launched their writing careers on social media.
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Waterman
$ 20.99By Echezonachukwu Nduka
Poetry | Papaerback | ISBN: 9781777275617
“Waterman affirms Echezonachukwu Nduka’s stature as an experienced poet. The poems are carefully crafted, highly descriptive, and flow rhythmically. Through the collection, the poet’s experiences of navigating through urban society come alive through images of music, water, and Catholicism. There are keen observations, witty and memorable images, and beautiful philosophical statements that make the poetry reading experience exhilarating. Nduka’s Waterman is versatile and uplifting.” – TANURE OJAIDE
“A wonderfully winding work of a voice matured. Echezonachukwu Nduka’s work is lyrical and the words jump to life on the page.” – ERIN CASTALDI
“As a poet, Echezonachukwu Nduka brings his classical musician’s light and swift hands to the page. In an even, sober voice, these mostly narrative poems open like nocturnes—in slow, deliberate, contemplative, and measured prose until their accents quicken and the reader is caught in a surprising orchestra of metaphors.” – AMATORITSERO EDE
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What the Eyes See
$ 21.99 Available August 29, 2025.By Lindsay Shore Published by: Griots Lounge Publishing Canada Imprint: Griots Lounge Publishing What the Eyes See is a folk tale that tells the story of […]
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White Heart
$ 22.99 Available September 22, 2025.Paperback: 280 pagesPublisher: Griots Lounge Publishing CanadaReleases: September 22, 2025Subjects: Fiction
Fantasy – Epic
LiteraryEAN: 9781738699xxxPhysical Dimensions: 15.24″ x 22.86″Carton Quantity: 1 -
Wish Maker
$ 24.99By Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
Juvenile Fiction (Chapter Book) | Hardcover | ISBN: 9781738699377
Ebele wishes he and his widowed mother would have a memorable Christmas with lots of presents. With his mother barely able to afford food and his friends mocking him, Ebele is afraid that he might not get any presents at all. When a strange man comes to town, Ebele opens his heart and home reluctantly. In return, the stranger teaches him there is more to Christmas than just gifts and that kindness is a virtue rewarded by great fortune.
WISH MAKER tells the story of Ebele, a 9-year-old boy whose widowed mother can’t afford to grant his wish for a bicycle. His friends cannot wait to show off their Christmas presents to Ebele, and they delight in making fun of him because he and his mother are poor. Unable to stand their taunting, Ebele considers hiding indoors during Christmas but meets a quirky, annoying, smelly stranger who claims to be an angel. The stranger, however, makes him realize his wish could come true only if they went fishing in the river where his father died. WISH MAKER is a blend of magic and realism set during Christmas week in a riverine village in southeast Nigeria. By turns sad and funny, it explores themes such as peer pressure, fear, kindness, hope, courage, and friendship.
