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Suspicions (Griot audio)
By Sasha Campbell. 2011
Because Noelle Gordon owns the hottest beauty salon in the area, she hears a lot about her clients' private lives.…
But when a baby is abandoned on her doorstep, Noelle finds that she is the one at the centre of all the drama. 2011.Taking sides
By Gary Soto. 1999
Eighth-grader Lincoln Mendoza and his mother have just moved from a San Francisco barrio to a wealthy, predominantly white suburb.…
He misses his Hispanic friends and his old neighborhood. And although he’s made first string on the basketball team, the coach dislikes him for no apparent reason. As Mendoza prepares to play basketball against his old school, he feels torn and unsure of where he belongs. Junior High. 1999.Tar baby
By Toni Morrison. 1983
Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion come Jadine - graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian, an American black now living…
in Paris and Rome - and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous, an American black from small-town Florida. Son is a threat to her freedom; she is a threat to his identity. Strong language. 1983.Summers' horses
By Ralph W Cotton. 2013
Horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal…
Summers' horses, they can't imagine the trouble they've just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a bunch of animals, Summer will make sure they're marked with his own special brand--one they'll never forget. 2013.Super sad true love story
By Gary Shteyngart. 2010
Lenny Abramov lives in futuristic Manhattan with his younger Korean lover Eunice Park, marketing eternal life to those who can…
afford it. He describes their chaotic world in an old-fashioned diary while Eunice confides in e-mails. 2010.Sudden fury (Last gunfighter. #20.)
By William W Johnstone, J. A Johnstone. 2010
Some sort of beast is viciously killing loggers in California’s redwood country. Timber-company owner Chamberlain puts a bounty on what…
is being dubbed the Terror. But Chamberlain’s daughter believes the Terror is her long-missing brother and pleads with drifter Frank Morgan to help him. 2010.Sweetsmoke
By David Fuller. 2008
1862. Cassius Howard, a slave on Virginia’s Sweetsmoke tobacco plantation, vows to avenge the murder of Emoline Justice, an old…
freed woman who saved his life. As the Civil War rages, Cassius risks everything - punishment, sale, even his life - for justice. 2008.Surviving the seasons
By Fern Kupfer. 1988
Sarah and Jake Pearlman remain passionate throughout their 40-year marriage. Their daughters Miriam, a liberal lawyer, and Sunny, a therapist,…
wrestle with the same emotional entanglements their parents faced years ago. Harry and June Elkind have a life of quiet acceptance and the two families over the years in the Bronx and Florida become intertwined - a story of immigrant Jewish families that grows into modern relationships. 1988.Sundown
By Michael Zimmer. 1988
Luke Howard and five other gunmen are hired by the Sand Creek Cattlemen's Association to stop recent rustlings. When the…
rustlers elude capture, Howard figures there is an inside man involved. 1988.Suicide trail
By Wayne C Lee. 1989
The trail to the gold fields of California was full of dangers and disasters. Everyone knew that driving horses through…
Indian territory was suicide, but with the help of gold hungry prospectors and a pack of dogs, Brent had to get those horses through to California; and neither Oker Patzel nor Indian raiders were going to stop him ...1989.Sweetness in the belly
By Camilla Gibb. 2005
White, English, and orphaned at eight, Lilly grows up in Morocco as a Muslim, moves to Harar, Ethiopia, for five…
years and settles in London after political upheaval makes her vulnerable. She agonizes over the uprootings that famine, corruption, and political instability caused in Ethiopia in the 1970s and '80s. Also painful is not knowing whether Aziz, her Ethiopian lover, is alive or dead, putting Lilly in a 17-year limbo between grief and desperate hope. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2005.Sunshine rider: the first vegetarian western
By Ric Lynden Hardman. 1998
Teenager Wylie Jackson is allowed to go on his first cattle drive as an assistant cook. Due to a series…
of mishaps, Wylie steals a horse, becomes a vegetarian, and decides to learn doctoring. But with a reward for his return, Wylie cannot escape justice forever. Includes frontier recipes. Senior High. c1998.Second time sweeter (Blessings novel. #9.)
By Beverly Jenkins. 2018
A little help from the people of Henry Adams, Kansas, gives both Mal, a recovering alcoholic, and Gary, a store…
owner who reunites with his high school sweetheart, a second chance at happiness. 2018.Street rap: from the trenches to rap royalty (Crescent Crew. #1.)
By Shaun Sinclair. 2018
For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved without the money. So…
they formed the Crescent Crew, an outfit of young, ruthless hustlers that locked the Southern drug trade in a stranglehold. They're at the height of their power when Qwess is offered a record deal from a major label. He accepts and makes plans for his whole crew to go legit, but Reece enjoys his position as king of the streets and has no desire to relinquish his crown. As a rift in the crew grows, Qwess is busy gliding up the charts and Reece expands Crescent Crew's powerful reach into new territory. Then tragedy strikes close to home and Qwess is pulled back into the streets he desperately fought to escape. Will he fall victim to the trap, or will he become a superstar of rap? 2018.Streets of Laredo: a novel (Lonesome Dove Ser. #No. 4)
By Larry McMurtry. 1993
Shower of gold: a western story (Five Star First Edition Western Ser.)
By Zane Grey. 2007
Arriving in the Southwestern border town of Casita, young Richard Gale finds himself in the middle of a Mexican revolution…
that pits him against a notorious bandit when he comes to the aid of the daughter of a murdered Spanish aristocrat. Some descriptions of violence. 2007, c1913.Scream of eagles (Eagles. #4.)
By William W Johnstone. 1996
When his beloved wife of forty-five years is killed in an outlaw raid, Jamie MacCallister vows vengeance. He tracks the…
murderous gang west from the Atlantic coast, winding up at Little Big Horn, where he joins General Custer's battle with the Sioux. Sequel to "Talons of Eagles". Violence and strong language. 1996. (The Eagles ; 4)Song of ascent: stories
By Gabriella Goliger. 2000
German Jews Ernst and Hannah Birnbaum flee Hitler but cannot escape the shadow of the Holocaust. In Montreal they attempt…
to create a shelter for their children, Rachel and Avi. This new generation struggles with the inherited alienation that accompanies exile, striving to both protect and escape their vulnerable elders. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2000.Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons: British remittance men in the Canadian west
By Mark Zuehlke. 1994
Between 1880 and the First World War, British remittance men arrived in the Canadian West. These remittance men, in many…
instances, tried to recreate the aura of landed gentry. The author tells of the efforts to bring "good breeding" to the Wild West. 1994.Sour Creek Valley: a western story
By Max Brand. 2018
After spending two years in prison, Blondy Kitchin is convinced by a chaplain that the range is the place for…
him to make use of his brute strength and free spirit. 2018.