So, Word, Rhymes, and Rhythm held a writing contest last year, 2017 Words Rhymes & Rhythm Green Author Prize (GAP) for young, unpublished Nigerian writers, and have only recently unveiled the books published for the winners, on their blog recently.
Being proud to showcase the eight winners who got a publishing deal, along with their newly published books, words Rhymes & Rhythm has placed these books on various e-distribution platforms for a wider reach and more sales, including Okadabooks.com. See them Below:
BOOK TITLE: FILES OF THE HEART
AUTHOR: IWU JEFF
GENRE: NOVEL
ISBN: 978-978-964-189-5
BOOK SUMMARY:
Shackled by fear, Chinwe, Obinna’s second to none, reminiscences the tales of her life, filed away in her heart. Her life is woven and shaped by her brother’s scratch of love, living objectively in a society where moral decadence, terrorism, conflict, killings, and kidnapping threaten the nation. She finds fulfillment in the midst of sacrifice and pains, neglecting the social requirement that makes her a complete woman. But, can she survive in the absence of her love attachment?
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BOOK TITLE: A LAGOS LOVE STORY
AUTHOR: ZAINAB KABIR
GENRE: NOVEL
ISBN: 978-978-55613-2-6
BOOK SUMMARY:
A Lagos Love Story tells a stirring tale about Lagos, jungle justice, homelessness and the art of risk taking through its main characters Hilal and Salim. These two, though living in different worlds, and walking different paths, meet and connect in the most amazing way and change each other’s life completely, forever.
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BOOK TITLE: SONS WITH ROOTS
AUTHOR: MIRACLE E. NWOKEDI
GENRE: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 978-978-964-185-7
BOOK SUMMARY:
SONS WITH ROOTS is a collection of eight moving stories that capture African traditions and masculinity, gender differences, romance, stretched bonds between a mother and her son alongside death, the fear of it and the very many things that come with it.
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BOOK TITLE: BROKEN THINGS
AUTHOR: OLUWAPELUMI FRANCIS SALAKO
ISBN: 978-978-964-186-4
GENRE: POETRY
BOOK SUMMARY:
Broken Things is a journey of boys who were born men. It is a ruminative recount of miseries and struggles of those who were forced into maturity. The collection seeks to find answers in dark places – sex, religion and tradition – and under flickering lights of love and heroism. It is a voice of pain attempting to speak healing under the thick shadows of wariness. It is a diary of boys traveling back to find shards of innocence – away from blue memories.
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BOOK TITLE: MEMORY AND OTHER SHARDS
AUTHOR: RACHEL IGE
GENRE: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 978-978-55613-1-9
BOOK SUMMARY:
MEMORY AND OTHER SHARDS is a collection of fictitious short stories which is a product of an imaginative mind and a crazy society. From the long, twisted arm of fate to the danger lurking in a home and the dwindling value of the Nigerian indigenous culture, this book is a broken mirror, with shards that reflect the society in which we live. What you see when you read, is a tinge of humor, a swipe of terror, and of course, a dash of madness! “Terror” has been previously published in “October Stories” (A collection of short stories by Uites) and Flash Fiction Magazine (FFM). Likewise, ‘”Fate: Memories gave me chills”, was first published on TheNakedConvos in 2017.
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BOOK TITLE: JIMMY’S FACE MEETS BRICK WALL
AUTHOR: ONALEYE PELUMI
GENRE: NOVEL
ISBN: 978-978-55613-0-2
BOOK SUMMARY:
What if a man were a planet? A twenty-seven-year-old planet going about the motions of adult life like every other planetal-cog in the societal solar system. Jimmy’s life was what any Nigerian his age will consider normal, with a job that paid the bills, an active sex life, and fairly normal friends. Until he met her that was—the meteor shower that pushed his planet off its orbit. Will he get his life back on track? Does this off-killer planet realign its axis or does it fall off entirely to float in the cosmos? What happens to a man totally out of sorts with caring too much about the right person?
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BOOK TITLE: TRANSCENDENCE
AUTHOR: AREMU ADAMS ADEBISI
GENRE: POETRY
ISBN: 978-978-964-188-8
BOOK SUMMARY:
Transcendence basically is poetry at its dynamics, the sea of emotions and the bull-eye of mysticism. Its imaginary invasion is parallel to that of a landscape painting as it traces the different shapes and components of words that appeal to sensibility. It tackles life from a standpoint that oscillates between abstraction and anecdote in sections thoroughly layered and enjoyed. Tending to break into the unprecedented at each turn of a page, this collection of poetry certainly stalks its mystery.
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BOOK TITLE: APOCALYPTIC ACAPELLAS
AUTHOR: AKOR EMMANUEL OCHE
GENRE: POETRY
ISBN: 978-978-964-187-1
BOOK SUMMARY:
APOCALYPTIC ACCAPELLAS presents intangible wisdom and a novel thought process to viewing life in poetry…
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