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Death of the Author A Novel [electronic resource] : by Okorafor, Nnedi.aut; cloudLibrary;
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more! “This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before. The future of storytelling is here. Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.  “An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure “A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels "There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
Subjects: Electronic books.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Sagas; Contemporary Women; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Suspense;
© 2025., HarperCollins,

Song of Ancient Lovers : A Novel. by Restrepo, Laura.;
Retelling the mythical love story between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon in the refugee camps of the present day, 'Song of Ancient Lovers' is an ode to love and desire as forces shaping human history, with power that rivals forces of destruction. Migration is both a theme of the future and the past and it traces the connection between today's climate and war refugees and the great migrations of the ancient world. Laura Restrpo's work has been published in more than 20 languages. She is a doctor and has traveled to Yemen with Doctors Without Borders, which inspired the contemporary story line of this novel. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / Classics; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; FICTION / Hispanic & Latino / Historical; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Romance / Historical / Ancient World; FICTION / Romance / International; FICTION / Sagas; FICTION / Women; FICTION / World Literature / South America (General);

At the gates of darkness / by Feist, Raymond E.;
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Aliens; Demonology; Elves; Magicians; Midkemia (Imaginary place); Pug (Fictitious character); Wizards;
© 2010., Eos,

Breathless / by Hardt, Helen,author.;
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Brothers and sisters; Brothers; Ranches; Man-woman relationships;

Ceridwen of Kilton / by Randolph, Octavia,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Anglo-Saxons; Vikings;

The circle of Ceridwen / by Randolph, Octavia,author.;
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Man-woman relationships; Vikings;

The short second life of Bree Tanner : an Eclipse novella / by Meyer, Stephenie,1973-;
Subjects: Cullen, Edward (Fictitious character); Swan, Bella (Fictitious character); High schools; Schools; Vampires; Werewolves; Tanner, Bree (Fictitious character);
© 2010., Little Brown,

Breaking dawn / by Meyer, Stephenie,1973-;
Bella Swan must choose between the love of vampire Edward Cullen or werewolf Jacob Black, a decision that has implications on the fate of two tribes.
Subjects: Vampires; Werewolves; Teenage girls; Romantic suspense fiction;
© 2008., Little, Brown and Co.,

The claiming / by Randolph, Octavia,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Anglo-Saxons; Vikings;

The Hall of Tyr / by Randolph, Octavia,author.;
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships; Women; Vikings;

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