Nnedi Okorafor
1) Akata witch
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Not fitting in anywhere, twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria but was born in America and although her features are African her skin is albino white. But when she discovers she has magical powers, she joins three others to study, learn, and change reality especially when it comes to outsmarting a career criminal who knows magic too.
2) Kindred
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When Dana, a woman from the twentieth century, is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor, Rufus, when his life is endangered, she must save him in order to live out her own life in the future.