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2) The help
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
3) Sula
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1996, c1973.
Edition
[First edition.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
5) Passing
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to pass as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare's risky decision to engage in racial masquerade...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them...
Author
Series
Marie Laveau Mystery volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spanning six decades of the 1800s, this mesmerizing story is a fictional biography of Marie Laveau--one of the most haunting characters in New Orleans' history. Part of a long line of voodoo priestesses and healers, Marie tells of the mystery, passion, and violence that pattern her life. Like her grandmother, Marie sees visions from an early age. She never knew her mother, who practiced a spiritualism so potent she was murdered by those who feared...
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Dream of freedom
Author
Series
American dreams (Michael Phillips) volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
506 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
11) Our Gen: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
The Gen--short for Sexagenarian--is an upscale fifty-five-plus community located in the bucolic suburbs of Philadelphia. Main character Cynthia befriends the Gen's two other Black residents, Bloc and Tish, as well as Lavia, who everyone assumes is from India. They regularly convene to smoke weed, line dance, and debate politics and philosophy as the wine goes down like silk. Their camaraderie is exhilarating. But beneath the fun and froth, storms...
Author
Publisher
One World/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 285 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the saga of Isis Tatum, a woman marked forever by the tough world of street life and love as she is transformed from an innocent and sweet young girl into "The Black Widow" by the desertion, betrayal, and deaths of the men in her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she will follow her husband anywhere. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover...
16) The wolf pit
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 342 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young Confederate soldier retains his humanity in the face of a brutal war by clinging to family pictures, psalms, and a strange story about mysterious green children discovered in a wolf pit.
17) Cane River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
While interning at one of Manhattan's most prestigious law firms run by brilliant twin brothers who are also her parents' friends, Yoshi Lomax discovers a secret society fueled by limitless desires and, armed with secrets too deadly to keep, must leverage her skills and unpredictable maneuvers to take them down.
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Talba Wallis--African American poet, leader of New Orleans' café society, and fledgling private detective--is hired by veteran sleuth Eddie Valentino to find a dangerous lothario who seduces teenage black girls who then mysteriously vanish.
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