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Brown Girl in the Ring [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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 Set in Toronto after the turn of the millennium, Brown Girl in the Ring focuses on "The Burn," the inner city left when Toronto's economic base collapsed. Young Ti-Jeanne lives with her grandmother, who runs a trade in herbal medicine that is vital to the disenfranchised of The Burn. A fascinating cast of characters combined with the dark world of Afro-Caribbean magic create an altogether original and compelling story by an intriguing new voice. (Published: 2001)
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Midnight Robber [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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Prisoner of new half-way tree. It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival--until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgivable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree. Here monstrous c... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Mojo: Conjure Stories [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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When Leonard Pine and his friend Hap Collins clean out the house of Leonard's just-dead Uncle Chester, they dig up more than dust. A small skeleton wrapped in pornographic magazines is unearthed--along with questions about Chester's involvement in a series of child murders.
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Skin Folk [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, became a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and garnered Hopkinson the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel, Midnight Robber, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. Now she presents Skin Folk, a richly vibrant collection o... more info>>
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The New Moon's Arms [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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THE NEW MOON'S ARMS is a mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity, has renamed herself in a way she feels is most fitting. She's a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause. With this physical change of life comes a return of a special power for finding lost things, something she hasn't been able to do since childhood. A little t... more info>> Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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The Salt Roads [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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A landmark work by a brilliant young author, The Salt Roads transports readers across centuries and civilizations as it fearlessly explores the relationships women have with their lovers, their people, and the divine. Jeanne Duval, the ginger-colored entertainer, struggles with her lover poet Charles Baudelaire ... Mer, plantation slave and doctor, both hungers for and dreads liberation ... and Thais, a dark-skinned beauty from Alexandria, is impelled to seek a glorious revelation--as Ezili, a b... more info>>
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Under Glass [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe]
by Nalo Hopkinson
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Sheeny lives in a world scoured clean by the glass wind that comes roaring out of the empty space where a mountain used to be. A wind whose gusts can strip flesh from bone and whose breezes leave a dust of glass so fine it accumulates in the lungs with every sip of air. Delpha lives in an otherwhere, an otherwhen in which no glass wind blows. Her world is poised on the precipice of its reality, needing only the faintest push to fall. And if that should happen, there will be no picking up the pie... more info>>
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