Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where...
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Author: Abbott, TonySummary:Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Alexander, TameraSummary:Elizabeth travels to 1875 Colorado to take pictures she hopes will make her the D.C. Chronicle's new photojournalist. But when her life is threatened, a buckskin-clad Southerner named Daniel takes...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In a seaside town in Haiti, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his daughter Claire so she can have a better life. But when the girl goes missing, the resulting...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Tademy, LalitaSummary:
Cane River is an epic novel about the strength and determination of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.
Genre: Domestic fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Patton, StaceySummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stacey Patton penned this moving memoir describing her tumultuous childhood growing up first in a state institution and then in a fractured foster family. She...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
Presents a collection of crime and noir stories set in Haiti.
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Roy, LucindaSummary:
Growing up in crowded south London, Jacinta knows she is unusual: neither black nor white. But when her father dies, and her mother breaks down, Jacinta loses the protection of her family's love...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Baptiste, TraceySummary:
Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Cannon, JanellSummary:
Pinduli's mama has always told her that she's the most beautiful hyena ever. But Dog, Lion, and Zebra don't think so. Why else would they make her feel so rotten about her big ears, her fuzzy mane...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Author: Lepore, JillSummary:
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
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Author: McFadden, Bernice L.Summary:
This heartbreaking tale follows two damaged but hopeful souls as they struggle to find love despite the ravages of their pasts.
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Jackson, NaomiSummary:
Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother, in this stunning debut novel This lyrical novel of community, betrayal, and love centers on an...
Genre: Bildungsromans, Domestic fiction -
Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Slater, DashkaSummary:
This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland,...
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Author: Addison, CorbanSummary:
A young American lawyer and a Zambian police officer work together to uncover the identiy of a young Zambian girl who has been brutally assaulted and find out the person who is behind the crime....
Genre: Legal fiction (Literature)