Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and...
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Auteur: Dangarembga, TsitsiSommaire:
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Auteur: Flournoy, AngelaSommaire:
The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Auteur: Hicks, RobertSommaire:
In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Harrison, VashtiSommaire:
Featuring the true stories of forty women creators, from writers and artists to inventors and scientists, this audiobook inspires as it educates. Listeners will meet trailblazers--some known, some...
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Auteur: Giddings, MeganSommaire:
Lena Johnson drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out...
Genre: Dystopian fiction, Medical fiction -
Auteur: Hubbard, LadeeSommaire:
This historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century Chicago, centers around the black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white family, who are exploited in the family's desperate...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Atakora, AfiaSommaire:
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE "...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Auteur: Hayes, EmerySommaire:
The first female sheriff of Toole County, Montana, Nicole Cobain earned the position through mental and physical grit, and when a young girl is found murdered on icy Lake Maria, every bit of it is...
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Auteur: Jeffers, Honoree FanonneSommaire:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION. An Instant Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller "Epic.... I was...
Genre: Epic fiction -
Auteur: Elliott, AndreaSommaire:
The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America-from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott of...
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Auteur: Morrow, Bethany C.Sommaire:
Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little Women , by national bestselling author Bethany C...
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Auteur: Reynolds, JasonSommaire:
From National Book Award finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions kids' walks home can take. This...
Genre: Humorous fiction, Young adult fiction -
Auteur: Williams, SynithiaSommaire:
What do you do when you want the one person you can never have? Get in and get out. That was India Robidoux's plan for this family visit. But when her brother needs her help with his high-...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Auteur: Welteroth, ElaineSommaire:
In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms...
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Auteur: Rather, LinaSommaire:
Two generations ago, Earth's colonies and space stations broke free of their home planet's tyrannical rule. Earth's Central Governance is now flexing its power to regain control of...
Genre: Science fiction