The African Immortals Series
The African Immortals Series is Tananarive Due’s critically acclaimed horror series.
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 My Soul to Keep  |
My Soul to Keep (The African Immortals Series #1)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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 My Soul to Keep  |
My Soul to Keep (The African Immortals Series #1)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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 My Soul to Keep  |
My Soul to Keep (The African Immortals Series #1)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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Tananarive Due is intrigued by how unfolding timelines and alternate destinies impinge on people’s lives. “How frightening it is,” she writes, “when fate is at liberty to take over what will has begun.” As in her absorbing first novel, The Between, My Soul to Keep is about what happens when the domestic joy of a middle-class African American family (in this story, he’s a jazz scholar, she’s a reporter, and they have a 5-year-old daughter) is shattered by supernatural forces and memories of events long past. The story is deeply involving because of the characters’ appeal, and suspenseful because the loving husband (who turns out to be a 500-year-old immortal) is so alien, he’s utterly unpredictable. The passages recalling the husband’s experiences as a slave in the American South in the 1800s are especially gripping. It’s a melodramatic approach to dark fantasy, but it works well. |
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 The Living Blood  |
The Living Blood (The African Immortals Series #2)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Living Blood  |
The Living Blood (The African Immortals Series #2)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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Acclaimed for her riveting fiction, which tests the boundaries of supernatural suspense, Tanarive Due returns with a gloriously imagined tale of an ancient cult’s undying powers -— now embodied by a child who can grow to become either monster or savior. Jessica Jacobs-Wolde worked hard to rebuild her life in Maimi after the disappearance of her husband, David, and the death of her daughter Kira at his hand. Four years later, she is still coming to terms with a shocking truth: David, who is part of an ancient group of immortals -— a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years -— gave Jessica and their second daughter, Fana, the gift of his healing blood. Now Jessica is running an isolated clinic in Botswana -— one that has swiftly earned a reputation for its astounding success rate in curing desperately ill children -— and she hopes to find the tribe of souls with whom Fana truly belongs. Just three and a half years old, the girl is displaying signs of tremendous power -— conjuring storms, editing her mother’s memories, and striking people down with a thought. Her growing abilities need to be tamed -— and soon. Already Fana’s dreams are haunted by a shadowy entity, someone -— or something -— she can only call the Bee Lady. Unaware that they are being tracked by Lucas Shepard, a doctor from Florida who hopes to save his dying son, and by a group of fortune hunters who will stop at nothing to exploit the power coursing through her veins, Jessica journeys to Ethiopia in search of the Life Brothers. There, she will be reunited with her immortal beloved. There, the full force of Fana’s powers will be revealed. And there, Jessica, David, Fana, and the good doctor Shepard, though himself a mere mortal, will engage in an epic and transcontinental battle over the ultimate fate of humanity. Blending the supernatural with a thrilling vision of our times, this is a powerful and sweeping tale of love, horror, immortality, and redemption from an astounding storyteller. |
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 Blood Colony  |
Blood Colony (The African Immortals Series #3)Author: Due, Tananarive |
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Acclaimed for seven novels, ranging from supernatural thrillers to historical fiction, which have garnered her a multitude of fans and awards, Tananarive Due now imagines the story of an ancient group of immortals — a hidden African clan that has survived for more than a thousand years — facing one of the most challenging issues of our time: the AIDS/HIV pandemic. There’s a new drug on the street: Glow. Said to heal almost any illness, it is distributed by an Underground Railroad of drug peddlers. But what gives Glow its power? Its main ingredient is blood — the blood of immortals. A small but powerful colony of immortals is distributing the blood, slowly wiping out the AIDS epidemic and other diseases around the world. Meet Fana Wolde, seventeen years old, the only immortal born with the Living Blood. She can read minds, and her injuries heal immediately. When her best friend, a mortal, is imprisoned by Fana’s family, Fana helps her escape — and together they run away from Fana’s protected home in Washington State to join the Underground Railroad. But Fana has more than her parents to worry about: Glow peddlers are being murdered by a violent, hundred-year-old sect with ties to the Vatican. Now, when Fana is most vulnerable, she is being hunted to fulfill an ancient blood prophecy that could lead to countless deaths. While her people search for Fana and race to unravel the unknown sect’s mysterious origins, Fana must learn to confront the deadly forces — or she and everyone she loves will die. |
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Title List: African Immortals Series
1. My Soul to Keep
2. The Living Blood
3. Blood Colony
Weblinks List:
Tananarive Due — Official Website
Tananarive Due Readers’ Circle (Blog)
Book List for:
Tananarive Due
