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To Have And To Hold Shelley Davidow
₦2,000To the modern, freedom-loving Phindile it seemed impossible that anyone, least of all a man, could make her compromise her independence. But then she had not reckoned with the determination of the lizard-like Mr. Takawira or the charms of the persistent Kudzi.
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Forgive Me Maryam (Pacesetters)
₦2,000For Khaleel, life is a dream come true. He heads a multi-million naira business, has a pretty, faithful wife and a beautiful daughter, and associates with everyone who is everyone in town. But when Bilkisu, the stunningly attractive girl he loved, and lost, when they were both students, comes back into his life with a marriage proposal, Khaleel has to act. Maryam’s sudden, suspicious, death could be the answer to his problems — or is it the beginning of worse ones?
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The Camera Never Lies
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One marriage. So many secrets. Can a camera that captures those secrets, exposing them through pictures, save the marriage or send it crashing into the sea?Kelly Whitely is at the height of her career, selling the latest miracle drug to doctors and pharmacies across the country. But concerns about the side effects have her longing for the day when she can quit her high-paying job and really focus on saving her marriage and teenage daughter. She keeps trying to talk to her husband, Daniel, about it, but every time she brings it up, he retreats further and further away from her.
Daniel Whitely is a successful marriage counselor and bestselling author, yet secrets from the past have created a chasm between him and Kelly. To make matters worse, the deadline for his second book has come and gone, and he still hasn’t written a single word. But he doesn’t dare tell anyone, not even his wife.
When Daniel inherits an old camera from his grandfather, he notices an inscription on the bottom: “No matter what you think you might see, the camera never lies.”
Daniel begins using the camera, but every time he develops his photos, they threaten to reveal secrets. Secrets about his own career, but also secrets about those around him, including Kelly. With each click of the camera, he risks exposure as a fraud, but if he doesn’t face the truths the photos reveal, what will happen to his marriage? To his family?
A standalone short novel
Approximately 60,000 words
Includes discussion questions, perfect for book clubs
Praise for The Camera Never Lies**:**“In his intriguing novel, The Camera Never Lies, David Rawlings challenges us to wonder what our photographs would look like if our souls, not our faces, were captured by the lens. This fascinating story will capture your imagination and your heart.”—Rachel Hauck, New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress
“The camera never lies, and neither does this gripping story about unearthing our deepest secrets in the most fantastical of ways. A message relatable to us all, bottled in an adventure we all love to read.”—Melissa Ferguson, author of The Dating Charade
“A thought-provoking look at the real price that secrets extract—not just from the person keeping them, but from their loved ones, too. You’ll close this story and be compelled to examine your own life . . . and also look at those around you and wonder, ‘Who else looks like they have it all together but is drowning on the inside?'”—Jessica Kate, author of Love and Other Mistakes
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Dealers In Death By Victor Thorpe
₦2,000A grisly trade in kidnapped children leads Paul Okoro into the net of a chillingly cruel villain with a taste for the bizarre – black widow spiders. Paul finds himself in deadly danger with no apparent way out. Can Aimie, his wife or any of his friends find him and his baby son in time?
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Horror Stories Macmillan Literature Collections
₦3,500Horror Stories Macmillan Literature Collections
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Listen to Your Heart – Writer’s Journal by Umm Zakiyyah
₦18,000Lined journal pages with inspirational writing quotes by Umm Zakiyyah, internationally acclaimed author and founder of UZ University.
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The Oasis After Mirages
₦8,500The Oasis after Mirages is a fictitious story capturing common hiccups faced in the quest of achieving one’s dream, especially as a girl-child. It reiterates the fact that success isn’t achieved easily, one needs to persevere during tough times. The book demonstrates that after feeling parched from a journey across the winding dunes of sand in the desert, there can be that fertile spot where water could be found – but that might come after encountering several mirages.
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A Trail of Dreams Azizah Idris
₦12,000A woman’s journey to rebuild her life. A cousin’s dangerous love. An ex-husband’s vengeful plot.
In the bustling city of Bauchi, Hadiza Musa, a 26-year-old divorcée, embarks on a transformative journey of self-discovery far from her children and the scars of her failed marriage. Haunted by her past and struggling to trust men again, she finds solace in her education and strives to create a better future for her children.
Hadiza’s refuge is threatened by her cousin, Major Muzakkir Idris Kirfi, whose unwavering affection for her ignites a love that could unravel both their lives. Despite being married, his feelings for Hadiza create a whirlwind of emotions and complications, forcing her to confront her deepest fears and insecurities.
Just as Hadiza begins to find happiness, her vengeful ex-husband, Abdurrazaq Zanna, resurfaces with a sinister agenda. He teams up with an unexpected ally from the Kirfi family to set in motion a sinister plot to destroy Hadiza once and for all. With betrayal lurking in the shadows, Hadiza must summon the courage to protect herself and those she holds dear.
Will she dare to trust again? In this gripping tale of resilience and redemption, Hadiza’s journey is a testament to the strength of faith and the transformative power of love. But when faced with the ultimate betrayal, will Hadiza fight for her newfound dreams, or succumb to the shadows of her past?
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Omerta by Mario Puzo
₦4,000To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him … and how, while the Don’s children claimed respectable careers in America, Astorre Viola waited for his time to come.
Now his time has arrived. The Don is dead, his murder one bloody act in a drama of ambition and deceit — from the deadly compromises made by an FBI agent to the greed of two crooked NYPD detectives and the frightening plans of a South American Mob kingpin. In a collision of enemies and lovers, betrayers and loyal soldiers, Astorre Viola will claim his destiny. Because after all these years, this moment is in his blood …
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The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
₦2,000First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine’s childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who are patrons of the opera, and he sees Christine when she begins successfully singing on the stage. The voice, who is the deformed, murderous ‘ghost’ of the opera house named Erik, however, grows violent in his terrible jealousy, until Christine suddenly disappears. The phantom is in love, but it can only spell disaster.
Leroux’s work, with characters ranging from the spoiled prima donna Carlotta to the mysterious Persian from Erik’s past, has been immortalized by memorable adaptations. Despite this, it remains a remarkable piece of Gothic horror literature in and of itself, deeper and darker than any version that follows.
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When the Moon is Low
₦30,000Mahmoud’s passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their country is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power.
In Kabul, we meet Fereiba, a schoolteacher who puts her troubled childhood behind her when she finds love in an arranged marriage. But Fereiba’s comfortable life implodes when the Taliban rises to power and her family becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime. Forced to flee with her three children, Fereiba has one hope for survival: to seek refuge with her sister’s family in London.
Traveling with forged papers and depending on the kindness of strangers, Fereiba and the children make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness, the start of a harrowing journey that reduces her from a respected wife and mother to a desperate refugee.
Eventually they fall into the shadowy underground network of the undocumented who haunt the streets of Europe’s cities. And then, in a busy market square in Athens, their fate takes a frightening turn when Fereiba’s teenage son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family. Without his mother, Saleem is forced, abruptly and unforgivingly, to come of age in a world of human trafficking and squalid refugee camps.
Heartbroken, Fereiba has no choice but to continue on with only her daughter and baby. Mother and son cross border after perilous border, risking their lives in the hope of finding a place where they can be reunited.
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Islands in the Stream – Ernest Hemingway
₦28,000Islands in the Stream (1970) is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway. The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway’s reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951. The work, rough but seemingly finished, was found by Mary Hemingway among 332 works Hemingway left behind at his death. Islands in the Stream was meant to encompass three stories to illustrate different stages in the life of its main character, Thomas Hudson. The three different parts of the novel were originally to be titled “The Sea When Young”, “The Sea When Absent” and “The Sea in Being”.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.