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• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Dana finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.

• Book Group Kit. Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. When a young black woman is drawn 150 years into the past, she doesn't realize that it is only the first of many times she will be called upon to save the life of a Maryland plantation owner who turns out to be her ancestor nor how involved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.

• Parable of the Sower

  Duffy, Damian,

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  Adult Graphic Novel. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Talents

  a Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter. Against a background of a war-torn…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fledgling

  a Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. A story of a young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dawn

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book one of the Xenogenesis series. The human race, now infertile, fights to maintain its identity when the alien species, Oankali, offers to trade genetic material and bioengineering at the price of metamorphosing a new kind of being.

• Adulthood Rites

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book two of the Xenogenesis series. In the sequel to "Dawn," Akin, the son of Lilith, struggles to cope with his dual human and alien Oankali legacy while preparing for the time of metamorphosis when he will take on the form of future human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Imago

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book three of the Xenogenesis series. The conclusion of the Xenogenesis trilogy chronicles the life of Jodahs, the offspring of a human mother and an alien, whose mission is to function as a gene trader in a human world increasingly hostile…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Seed

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book one of the Patternists series. While attempting to move his people--a group of psychic witches--to the New World, four-thousand-year-old Doro encounters Anyanwu, a woman who refuses to submit to his control.

• Mind of My Mind

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book two of the Patternists series. Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations, seeking out those with unusual talents like telepathy and breeding them into a new subrace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clay's Ark

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book three of the Patternists series. A handful of people exposed to a disease of extraterrestrial origin combat their nearly irresistible impulse to infect others, as they struggle to make a life for themselves in self-imposed desert…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Patternmaster

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Book four of the Patternists series. A telepathic race is ruled by the strong mind of the Patternmaster, but his ruthless son craves the ultimate power of the position and has murdered everyone who stands in his way except a final…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unexpected Stories

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. Short story collection. Unexpected Stories is, by any measure, an unexpected gift. This slender but resonant volume contains two stories—recently unearthed and never before in print—by one of the most significant figures in modern science…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bloodchild and Other Stories

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Fiction. A collection of short stories by celebrated African American female science fiction Octavia E. Butler includes the award-winning title story, "Bloodchild," a parable about the treatment of women throughout history.

• Octavia E. Butler

  the Last Interview and Other Conversations

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Nonfiction. Octavia E. Butler broke innumerable barriers in science fiction, becoming the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards. In this collection of ten (10) interviews, including three (3) previously unpublished, Butler…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Conversations With Octavia Butler

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Nonfiction. Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific career as the only major black female author of science fiction. Winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as a MacArthur "genius" grant, the first for a science…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Duffy, Damian,

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  Adult Graphic Novel. Octavia E. Butler’s bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format.

• A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky

  the World of Octavia E. Butler

  George, Lynell,

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  Nonfiction. A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning science-fiction writer and "MacArthur Genius" Octavia E. Butler. It is a collection of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Octavia's Brood

  Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements

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  Fiction. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown present "Octavia's Brood," an anthology of twenty short stories that connect radical speculative fiction with movements for social change. The visionary stories - spanning genres like sci-fi,…Read moreRead more of this annotation