A selection of Nigerian Fiction books at Tarbiyah Books Plus, Abuja. Nigeria’s leading retailer of audio books and other products.
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The Delinquent (Pacesetters) By Mohammed Sule
₦2,000Alhaji Abubakar’s household does follow the traditional pattern established in the settlement of Alaika. Although, as wealthy and as respected a figure as his neighbors, he has only one wife, Ramatu, and only one child, Sale.
As his son grows into rebellious manhood, the structure of Abubakar’s life is shaken and he has reason to fear not only for Sale’s future but for the fate of his whole family and way of life.
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For Better For Worse By Osman Pius Conteh
₦2,000The love between Makalay and Yankuba is fiery and unpredictable. Yankuba has also caught the attention of the unscrupulous village priest. Can the two young people thwart Pa Adekali and manage to live their lives for better, or worse.
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Circle of Betrayal (Pacesetters) By James Irungu
₦2,000Could Wahomeh, the man who saved Njeri’s father from ruin and then became guardian to his orphaned children, really be a cheat after all? Njeri cannot bring herself to believe it in spite of the sinister events which pile up the suspicion against him. When the realization of the strength of her feelings for Wahomeh dawns, Njeri is faced with an agonizing choice.
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The Lost Generation By James Irungu
₦2,000Country-bred Mbatha and Rabeka are childhood sweethearts and seemed destined for each other. Illness takes Rabeka to hospital in Nairobi, and while she is recuperating she meets the sophisticated Mawa with dramatic consequences for all of them.
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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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Harvest Of Love By Sam Aryeetey
₦2,000Naki and Padi are deeply in love and long to marry. Naki, however, must first go through the Dipo rites of initiation. Any girl who has been unchaste knows what the punishment has to be: banishment forever. Naki is pregnant – can she deceive the High Priest and keep the man she loves? Is there any future for their unborn child?
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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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Knit: The Lost Girl Paperback-by Yaseer Abdullahi
₦5,500New revelations soon befall the readers only to leave them wondering yet again, was Taylor alive or not? And if he was, where could he possibly have vanished to?With a captivating mash-up of fantasy, action, romance and mystery, the lost girls so much to the table with a newly imagined world waiting to be explored.
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Knit: The Male Connoisseur By Yaseer Abdullahi
₦3,500Taylor wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how he ended up there. He and his mysterious uncle who went to take him home on the day he was discharged got attacked by an even more mysterious ax-wielding stranger. He later began to have unusual dreams that hurt him physically, searching for answers, he went to his aunt who told him something that opened a new strange part of his life.
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The Sokoto Caliphate -by Murray Last
₦10,500The Sokoto Caliphate was a West African Empire that became a part of northern Nigeria. It was founded by the charismatic Fulani Islamic scholar and political leader Usman dan Fodio upon his conquer of the Hausa people. Usman dan Fodio created a unified political and economic polity while promulgating a reformist Islamic movement meant to correct syncretic, lax, or superficially Islamic practices in the region.
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Overcoming Boko Haram: Faith, Society & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria – by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha
₦20,000It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
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Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities & Conflict in Northern Nigeria – by Professor Abdul Raufu Mustapha
₦10,500Nigerian society has long been perceived as divided along religious lines, between Muslims and Christians, but alongside this there is an equally important polarization within the Muslim population in beliefs, rituals and sectarian allegiance. This book highlights the crucial issue of intra-Muslim pluralism and conflict in Nigeria.
Conflicting interpretations of texts and contexts have led to fragmentation within northern Nigerian Islam, and differentIslamic sects have often resorted to violence against each other in pursuit of ‘the right path’. -
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A Person Of Heft – by Bolaji Olatunde
₦6,000It is 2015. Nigeria has a new president who has promised change and prosperity for Nigerians. Tomi Makinde is a young Nigerian professional woman struggling to get a foothold in corporate Nigeria. As her marketing career grows, she finds herself catapulted fast to unexpected heights due to a chance encounter. As she climbs the corporate ladder, she contends with intense power play and betrayal. Despite her professional success, she is haunted by the memories of her parent’s failed marriage, she is afraid of letting her guard down to allow love in.