November 2021 Loan Stars Picks
Blue-Skinned Gods : A Novel.
Sindu, SJ.
2021
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. The family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child's blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki's tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status. Over the next decade, as Kalki begins to doubt his divinity, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on is at risk. Author of "Marriage of a Thousand Lies." Residence: Toronto, ON. Print run 50,000.
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone : A Novel.
Gabaldon, Diana.
2021
It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser's Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.
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Okorafor, Nnedi.
2021
Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt - natural. Instead of viewing her strange body the way the world views it, AO embraces all that she is: a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations. And then one day she goes to her local market and everything goes wrong. Once on the run, she meets a Fulani herdsman named DNA and the race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria begins. Author of "Remote Control." Print run 50,000.
Rez Rules A Chief's Indictment of North America's Systemic Racism against Indigenous People
Louie, Chief Clarence
2021
