Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due is an African-American novelist who writes horror but also mysteries, historical fiction and non-fiction.
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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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 Joplin’s Ghost  |
Joplin’s Ghost: A NovelAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 Joplin’s Ghost  |
Joplin’s Ghost: A NovelAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents’ jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R&B singer. As the protegee of rap superstar G-Ronn, Phoenix is living the life young artists envy and seems destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a historical site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre, erotic encounters with a spirit who may be the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin. With growing violence in G-Ronn’s inner circle and a ghost bent on living forever through her, Phoenix’s life suddenly hangs in the balance. Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to fight to live out her own future? Or will she be trapped forever in Scott Joplin’s doomed, tragic past? |
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 The Good House  |
The Good House: A NovelAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Good House  |
The Good House: A NovelAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Good House  |
The Good House: A NovelAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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From the Editors of Amazon.com: Early in the Twentieth Century, a powerful voodoo priestess followed her guiding spirit from New Orleans to a small town in Washington State. But in pride and anger, Marie Toussaint unleashed a new — and very different — spirit. Now, ignorant of both her heritage and the curse, Angela Toussaint returns to her dead Grandmother Marie’s house, seeking to heal her fractured relationships with her son and her husband. But the malicious spirit wishes only the destruction of the Toussaints; and as it did in her grandmother’s day, it inflicts horrific death and destruction upon the isolated town. Soon Angela has lost almost everyone she loves; and she must somehow uncover the secrets of her unknown heritage if she is to have a prayer of saving her true love — and her own soul. Tananarive Due has written the unconventional vampire novels My Soul to Keep and its sequel, The Living Blood. Due’s historical novel The Black Rose was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award, and her debut novel, The Between, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Due is also coauthor, with Dave Barry, Edna Buchanan, Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, and eight others, of the comic thriller Naked Came the Manatee. |
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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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 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 Between  |
The BetweenAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Between  |
The BetweenAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Between  |
The BetweenAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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Nominated for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. When Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a treacherous ocean current, sacrificing her own life for his. Now, thirty years later, he is starting to think his borrowed time is running out. His wife has begun receiving racist hate mail — letters from a man she once prosecuted who now threatens to destroy her entire family. Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting them, and begins having nightmares more horrible than any he has ever experienced. Are the strange dreams trying to tell him something? Perhaps Hilton was never meant to have survived that drowning accident, and there are forces at work to rectify that mistake. Hilton’s sense of reality begins slipping away as he battles both the psychotic who stalks his family and the even more terrifying unseen enemy that plagues his sleep. |
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Anthologies with Tananarive Due
 The Ancestors  |
The AncestorsAuthor: Due, Tananarive; Massey, Brandon and Banks, L. A. |
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Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey’s “The Patriarch,” a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new life . . . Buried. The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A. Banks’s “Ev’ry Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep,” violent visions haunt a man-until he’s handed an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts from occurring once again . . . Forgotten. When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must find a way-even in death-to tell their tales. In Tananarive Due’s “Ghost Summer,” ancestors haunt the nights of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the living . . . Table of Contents:
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Mystery by Tananarive Due
 In the Night of the Heat  |
In the Night of the Heat (A Tennyson Hardwick Mystery #2)Author: Underwood, Blair; Due, Tananarive and Barnes, Steven |
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Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city. In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family — especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him “sir.” Now, in the wake of his father’s sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for the first murder of a female rapper. In the process he discovers his hidden talents — the hard way. |
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 Casanegra  |
Casanegra (A Tennyson Hardwick Mystery #1)Author: Underwood, Blair; Due, Tananarive and Barnes, Steven |
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 Casanegra  |
Casanegra (A Tennyson Hardwick Mystery #1)Author: Underwood, Blair; Due, Tananarive and Barnes, Steven |
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Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy actor and former gigolo, living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story, which chronicles the redemption of a prodigal son, combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city. In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson struggles to hang on to his acting career and redeem his sex-for-pay history, which estranged him from his family — especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him “sir.” Now, in the wake of his father’s sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for the first murder of a female rapper. In the process he discovers his hidden talents — the hard way. |
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Historical Fiction by Tananarive Due
 The Black Rose  |
The Black Rose: The Dramatic Story of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s First Black Female MillionaireAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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 The Black Rose  |
The Black RoseAuthor: Due, Tananarive |
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Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America’s first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. |
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Non-Fiction by Tananarive Due
 Freedom in the Family  |
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil RightsAuthor: Due, Tananarive and Due, Patricia Stephens |
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 Freedom in the Family  |
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil RightsAuthor: Due, Tananarive and Due, Patricia Stephens |
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Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era, surrendering her very freedom to ensure that the rights of others might someday be protected. Her daughter Tananarive grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, they have written a paean to the movement — its struggles, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements — and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning the struggles of two generations is an unforgettable story. |
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Summary:
Title List:
1. The Between
2. My Soul to Keep
3. The Black Rose
4. The Living Blood
5. Freedom in the Family
6. The Good House
7. Joplin’s Ghost
8. Casanegra
9. Blood Colony
10. In the Night of the Heat
Title List: Novels
1. The Between
2. My Soul to Keep
3. The Black Rose
4. The Living Blood
5. The Good House
6. Joplin’s Ghost
7. Casanegra
8. Blood Colony
9. In the Night of the Heat
Title List: African Immortals Series
1. My Soul to Keep
2. The Living Blood
3. Blood Colony
Title List: Tennyson Hardwick Mystery
1. Casanegra
2. In the Night of the Heat
Title List: Anthology
1. The Ancestors
Weblinks List:
Tananarive Due — Official Website
Tananarive Due Readers’ Circle (Blog)
Series Page for:
The African Immortals Series
