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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.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.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.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.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.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.Scenes from village life
By Amos Oz. 2017
Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that…
he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor's wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note saying "Don't worry about me"? Around the village, the veneer of new wealth--gourmet restaurants, art galleries, a winery--barely conceals the scars of war and of past generations: disused air raid shelters, rusting farm tools, and trucks left wherever they stopped. A memorable novel-in-stories, an unsettling glimpse of what goes on beneath the surface of everyday life. 2017. Uniform title: Temunot me-ḥaye ha-kefar.Street divas (Griot audio)
By De'Nesha Diamond. 2012
Four powerful women vie for total control of the Memphis hood, and they aren't about to let past loyalties get…
in their way. While Lucifer is hitting the streets to get her revenge for a deadly shooting, Essence is hitting the sheets - with her best friend's man. And Yolanda knows her path to power lies with her baby's hustler father, but Queen G Leshelle is dead set on keeping this game all to herself. 2012.Stalker (Griot audio)
By Brenda Hampton. 2017
After a brutal divorce, Abigal Wilson vowed to never love again, but when Brent Carson crosses her path, she simply…
can't resist his good-guy persona that exemplifies perfection. From A to Z, Brent appears to have it all. Abigal falls head over heels for him--until the unthinkable happens. Brent's announcement, "I'm just not that into you," sends Abigal on a downward spiral. She can't cope with ill treatment from another man, and now nothing would please her more than to see Brent making his way to the gates of hell. In a rush to get him there, Abigal takes on an unforgettable, head-shaking and shocking role as--Mrs. Stalker. 2017.Single ladies (Single ladies. #1.)
By Blake Karrington. 2016
Life is complicated for five inner city friends as Tammy deals with being a single mom, Lamar and Falisha find…
their friendship complicated after they have sex, Kim is too job-focused, and Lisa's boyfriend returns from prison. Followed by "Single ladies 2". 2016.Storm child (Time of our lives)
By Brenda Bellingham. 1985
Store up the anger
By Wessel Ebersohn. 1981
This novel, based on the death of South African black leader Steve Biko, opens with the detention and interrogation of…
a young black nationalist, Sam Bhengu. Sam reviews his life in flashbacks, beginning with his childhood in Sophiatown. 1981.Still here
By Linda Grant. 2002
Alix Rebick is a survivor of the sexual revolution, but at forty-nine is resigned to spending the rest of her…
life alone. Returning to the bedside of her dying mother, Alix receives a final message that forces her to uncover family secrets that lie in pre-war Dresden. Joseph Shields, an American architect, is in a war - with Liverpool's underworld, with his wife back in Chicago who has left him and with memories of his time as a combat soldier. He is not interested in an affair with the woman who unlocks the city's secrets for him and is consumed with desire. Strong language. Descriptions of sex. 2002.Smuggled: a novel
By Christina Shea. 2011
Smuggled out of Hungary to escape the Nazi menace, five-year-old Eva Farkas now lives with her aunt and uncle in…
Romania. Renamed Anca Balaj, she's told to forget her Hungarian past and language and accept a new identity. But when communism smothers her adopted homeland, Anca fights to survive. After the Iron Curtain lifts decades later, she returns to Hungary in 1990, hoping to reclaim her forgotten heritage. 2011.Slumberland (Griot audio)
By Paul Beatty. 2008
Ferguson Sewell, aka DJ Darky, is a jazz enthusiast who does porno film scores to make money. Claiming to have…
a phonographic memory, Sewell is obsessed with the Schwa - a brilliant musician who supposedly disappeared into Cold War Berlin in the 1960s. When Sewell receives an already-scored production from a West Berlin bar called Slumberland, he’s certain the film’s incredible soundtrack is the work of the Schwa. So Sewell heads to Berlin, soon finding himself an exotic object of desire and watching as the city’s walls crumble around him. 2008.Somebody's sinning in my bed (Griot audio)
By Pat G'Orge-Walker. 2009
Her marriage to a minister compromised by numerous infidelities on both sides, Chyna turns for advice to her sister Janelle,…
who still harbours resentment for Chyna's affair with Janelle's own husband. 2009.