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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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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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The Moment Of Letting Go
₦30,000Sienna Murphy never does anything without a plan. And so far her plans have been working. Right after college, she got a prestigious job and gained the stability she’d always craved-until work takes her to the sun-drenched shores of Oahu and places her in the path of sexy surfer Luke Everett. For the first time, she lets her heart take control. Drawn to his carefree charm, she makes a spontaneous and very un-Sienna-like decision to drop everything and stay in Hawaii for two more weeks.
Luke lives fast and wild. When he meets Sienna, he’s convinced that some no-strings-attached fun is just what she needs. As their nights quickly turn from playful to passionate, Luke can’t deny the deep connection he feels. But there’s a reason Luke doesn’t do long-term. He can’t promise Sienna forever, when the enormity of his past has shown him just how fragile the future can be . . .
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The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson
₦4,500The extraordinary story of an all-American girl’s conversion to Islam and her ensuing romance with a young Egyptian man, The Butterfly Mosque is a stunning articulation of a Westerner embracing the Muslim world.
When G. Willow Wilson—already an accomplished writer on modern religion and the Middle East at just twenty-seven—leaves her atheist parents in Denver to study at Boston University, she enrolls in an Islamic Studies course that leads to her shocking conversion to Islam and sends her on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future.
She settles in Cairo where she teaches English and submerges herself in a culture based on her adopted religion. And then she meets Omar, a passionate young man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland. They fall in love, entering into a daring relationship that calls into question the very nature of family, belief, and tradition. Torn between the secular West and Muslim East, Willow records her intensely personal struggle to forge a “third culture” that might accommodate her own values without compromising the friends and family on both sides of the divide.