Uly would rather watch old Westerns with his new girlfriend, Sallie, than get involved in his school's politics-why focus on the "bad" and "ugly" when his days with Sallie are so good? His older sister Regina...
Racism
- Author:Ivery, KwameSummary:
- Author:Harris, Zakiya DalilaSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Good Morning America , Esquire , and Read with Marie Claire Book Club Pick and a People Best Book of Summer Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Time , The Washington Post , Harper's Bazaar,...
- Author:Coopsammy, MadelineSummary:
Tessa comes of age as the advent of Independence in a small British Caribbean island disturbs the status quo and establishes a new class and race hierarchy in a country that historically was a polyglot nation. As East Indians living in...
- Author:Konigsberg, BillSummary:
* "Konigsberg demonstrates once again why he is one of the major voices in LGBTQ literature." -- Booklist, starred review
Max: Chill. Sports. Video games. Gay and not a big deal, not to him, not to his mom, not to his buddies....
- Author:Lee, ErikaSummary:
In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in...
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight,...
- Author:Rooke, LeonSummary:
From one of Canada's most compelling and imaginative writers of short fiction comes a new collection of eleven stories and a novella. With stories both magical and unexpected, Leon Rooke astounds with his approach to the art of...
- Author:Chamberlain, DianeSummary:
"[A] twisty, riveting ride." - People Magazine , People Pick "Chamberlain's evocative writing and Bennett's skilled character portrayals may cause visceral reactions in listeners, particularly during violent...
- Author:Bartley, AllanSummary:
The Klu Klux Klan's dominant force of hate in America slowly found it's way north of the border, upending Canada's somewhat peaceful existence.
- Author:Johnson, NancySummary:
It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is...
- Author:Donovan, LoisSummary:
Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather. A move to Edmonton was definitely not part...
- Author:Welsing, Frances CressSummary:
A collection of 25 essays examining the neuroses of white supremacy.
- Author:McCullers, CarsonSummary:
In a small Georgia mill town during the depression, four misfits form a group that revolves around a deaf-mute whose sole companion has been sent to an insane asylum.
- Author:Thomas, AngieSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor black neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the...
- Author:Jalalzai, Musa KhanSummary:
The revelations of Mr. Edward Snowden sparked widespread outrage about the illegal surveillance mechanisms of N.S.A. and G.C.H.Q. The intelligence war between allies and friends broke into the open when France, Germany and Spain...
- Author:Chesnutt, Charles W.Summary:
When former Confederate officer Colonel French returns to his North Carolina hometown after building his fortune in the North, he is a new man. He intends to create better economic conditions for those who have only known hardship. But...
- Author:Singh, JuliettaSummary:
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world while celebrating queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the binaries that shape US discourse.
- The bodies keep coming : dispatches from a black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we healAuthor:Williams, Brian HSummary:
Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all - gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries - and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families, as well as its...