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  Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

  Umezurike explores the migrant experience and ideas of home and identity in concrete urban images – bus stations, trains, condo neighbours, food courts – and sensuous images of nature – birds, trees, flowers, insects – in these precise lyrical poems that are always in motion and always striving for connection.

  (The University of Alberta Press, $19.99 Paperback, 88 pages, ISBN: 978-17-72126-80-8)  

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  Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Henry Ezeokeke (Illustrator)

  This charming book tells of Ebele, a nine-year-old boy who struggles to understand why his widowed mother cannot buy him Christmas gifts. To show him what Christmas is truly about, a magical stranger helps Ebele to overcome peer pressure, have faith, and be kind.

  (Griots Lounge Publishing Canada, $24.99 Paperback, 104 pages, ISBN: 978-17-38699-37-7)