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The Black God's Drums 2018

By P. Djèlí Clark, Raúl García Campos, David G. Vaquero

  • Weapons, Fiction, African American teenagers, Pirates

"Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Her sights are set on securing passage aboard Captain Ann-Marie's smuggler airship Midnight Robber, earning the captain's trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls the Black God's Drums. But Creeper keeps another secret close to her heart-- Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, who speaks inside her head and grants her divine powers. And Oya has her own priorities..." -- Page [4] of cover.

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  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemplativerelentless
  • character-ledplot-driven

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