One evening, Lady Delilah Chambers comes under attack by a gang of ruffians, and fends them off with the help of a handsome gentleman. But she is shocked when she meets the duke who is set on wedding her stepdaughter.
Racially mixed people
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Author:Quincy, D. M.Summary: - Author:Blades, NicoleSummary:
She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families...
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Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:Esi Edugyan won wide acclaim for her stunning novel Half-Blood Blues'a Man Booker Prize finalist and winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, 83-year-old Sid Griffiths remembers his time during WWII playing in a Berlin jazz band...
- Author:Brown, Cole, James, MattSummary:
When The Bachelor franchise announced Matt James as the first Black lead, it was celebrated as long-overdue progress on the primetime show. On the show, Matt could only go so far in sharing his own story with America. In this book, Matt...
- Author:Boulley, AngelineSummary:
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after...
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
"Em, c'est le fifil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l'opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c'est celle qui aime."
- Author:Thúy, KimSummary:
In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle : an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning...
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Author:Parshall, SandraSummary:Tom Bridger, who is half Melungeon, thought he had escaped his mountain community’s lingering prejudice against the mixed-race group when he left to work for the Richmond, Virginia Police Department. Tom was moving up the detective...
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Author:Wicomb, ZoëSummary: -
Author:Elliott, KateSummary:Jessamy's life is a balance between acting like an upper class patron and dreaming of the freedom of the commoners. Then Jes meets Kalliarkos, and their unlikely friendship causes heads to turn. When a scheming lord tears Jes's family...
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Author:Mawani, RenisaSummary:Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that underwrote colonialism in BC. By focusing on these points of contact, this book forges...
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Author:Brown, William WellsSummary:First published in 1853 amidst rumors that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves, Clotel is a fictional chronicle of one such child. After Jefferson's death, his mistress and her two daughters are auctioned. One...
- Author:Price-Thompson, TracySummary:
Juanita and her best friend Scooter are both frustrated in life and love--Juanita because her light skin makes it tough to fit in, and Scooter because he is gay. When they meet two fine-looking Puerto Rican men, their lives head down...
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Author:Elliott, KateSummary:Jessamy is the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron overlords. But enemies from foreign lands have attacked the kingdom, and Jes must find a way to unite the Commoners and Patrons...
- Author:Harper, Rachel M.Summary:
Nellie, whose black skin and blonde hair have always made her feel like an outsider, feels more out of place than when she was younger. Her parents are working on a divorce. She's stuck in a car on a road trip with her dark-skinned dad...
- Author:Hyde, Anne F.Summary:
A revealing history of the West that pivots on Native peoples and the mixed families they made with European settlers. There is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were complex...
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Author:Weston, Robert PaulSummary:She walks in with her music and out with his heart Kaz Barrett should be saving for college. Instead, he saves his pay from the Sit ’n’ Spin Laundromat to send his mother to an expensive sleep clinic in New York. She suffers from a rare...
- Author:Draper, Sharon M.Summary:
Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper. Eleven...
- Author:Chong, CorinnaSummary:
A heartfelt and quirky look at growing up mixed-race in 1990s Calgary, viewed through the lens of the irrepressible Grace. The strange interests of Grace and her mother Belinda, ufology and undersea life respectively, do not overshadow...
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Author:Evans, Mary AnnaSummary:Faye Longchamp has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. No one knows how Faye’s great-great-...
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