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  • Mount Pleasant

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    In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the verge of becoming one of the sultan’s hundreds of wives, Sara’s story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognized by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya’s brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years before. In Sara’s new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya–a magical yet declining place of artistic and intellectual…

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  • The Toppling

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    The Toppling is Cynthia Marangwanda’s highly anticipated follow-up to her award-winning novella, Shards. At its heart is Mamoyo, a spirit medium who has always regarded her gift as a curse. But when a ghost from the colonial past begins to haunt her, she is thrust into a perilous journey that forces her to reconsider everything she thought she knew. As Mamoyo battles forces more powerful than she could have imagined, the struggle extends far beyond her own survival, to the very future of her country. Steeped in history and spirituality, The Toppling lays bare the unhealed wounds of a nation in crisis,…

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