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Soul mountain: [Ling shan]
By Mabel Lee, Xingjian Gao. 2002
So you call yourself a man (Griot audio)
By Carl Weber. 2006
All's good for James and his wife Cathy--especially between the sheets. But then a woman shows up with James' love…
child and demands to get paid. Undeniably suave Brent's got trouble too as he's tempted by another after finding happiness with a born-again churchgoer. And long-time friend Sonny needs help from his two best friends if he's to keep his wife from leaving him. Doing the right thing isn't easy, but with each other's help, James, Brent, and Sonny are going to become the men they want to be. 2006.Some great thing
By Lawrence Hill. 1992
Disillusioned and apathetic after four years of college in Toronto, Mahatma Grafton returns to Winnipeg to work on a local…
newspaper. His assignments increase his economic, social and political awareness of the city and Canada. Strong language. c1992.Somebody's baby: a novel
By Elaine Kagan. 1998
In 1959 Jenny Jaffe, a Jewish high school senior, falls in love with ex-con Will McDonald. When Jenny becomes pregnant,…
they decide to elope, but Will never shows up. Thirty-five years later, their daughter, who had been put up for adoption, reunites them. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.Sophie's choice (Virago Modern Classics)
By William Styron. 2004
Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in…
a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past: her memories of pre-war Poland, the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice. 2004, c1979.Songs of enchantment
By Ben Okri. 1993
Azaro the spirit child is a reluctant traveller in the realities of this world. In this story of love and…
transformation, his adventures begin with the disruption of his family, when, under the pressure of poverty and myth, his mother goes off to follow the legendary Madame Koto. An obsession for a beautiful beggar girl ensnares his father into forbidden visions. Sequel to “The Famished Road”. 1993.Skinner's drift
By Lisa Fugard. 2005
South Africa's Skinner's Drift was Eva van Rensburg's home. Years pass and the summer storms finally arrive. The violence that…
was buried beneath the parched earth begins to break through and looks set to shatter the lives of all who remain. And Eva knows she must flee the place she loves if she is to survive. 2005.Sister, sister
By Eric Jerome Dickey. 2002
Simple recipes: Stories
By Madeleine Thien. 2001
A collection of seven stories on the theme of family relationships. It examines the experience of alienation and the conflict…
between generations and cultures. Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Regional Finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Some strong language. 2001.Singapore: a Virgil Tibbs mystery novel
By John Dudley Ball. 1986
Detective Virgil Tibbs is in Singapore at the request of Miriam Motamboru, widow of a deceased African president. Miriam has…
been charged with murder, but she is sure Tibbs can prove her innocence. 1986.Scandalous (Griot audio)
By Victoria Christopher Murray. 2013
Exotic dancer Jasmine Cox is engaged and ready to settle down. But then a bachelorette-party roll in the hay ignites…
a torrid affair that threatens to drown out the sound of wedding bells. 2013.Scandals (Griot audio)
By Sasha Campbell. 2012
Single mother Monica Houston must keep her new job as an exotic dancer secret from her ex-husband and new boyfriend…
if she wants to keep her children, while fellow dancer Treasure takes in her young nephew after her sister is arrested for murder. 2012.Sidewalk story
By Sharon Bell Mathis. 1971
Shiva's fire
By Suzanne Fisher Staples. 2000
Shoulda, woulda, coulda (Griot audio)
By La Jill Hunt. 2007
Paige Michaels seems to have the perfect family. But she's beginning to feel like her man is just using her…
- and he might have another woman. Maybe it's time to finally let go. If Paige hadn't played house back in college and gotten pregnant, she could have done better for herself. But that's the past - what's she gonna do now? 2007.She had it coming (Griot audio)
By Mary Monroe. 2008
Dolores Reese, a master at keeping secrets, attempts to pull off the ultimate deception as she juggles two husbands -…
one in prison, and one at home - and becomes trapped in a web of love, dishonesty, and jealousy, when her first husband is set free due to new evidence. 2008.Season of migration to the North
By Al-Tayyib Salih. 1969
Two Sudanese men who studied in Europe meet in a village on the Nile. Mustafa confides to the younger man…
the secrets of his past--his obsession with British women and theirs with him, and the high price he and they have paid for their illusions. 1969. Uniform title: Mawsim al-hijrah ilá al-Shamāl.Sea changes
By Robert Kotlowitz. 1986
In 1935 in Germany, the future looks grim for Jews, so teenager Leopold Vogel is sent to an adoptive family…
in Baltimore. He changes his name, but this cannot keep him from experiencing homesickness and loss. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 1986.Second cousins (Virginia Hamilton Ser. #Vol. 3)
By Virginia Hamilton. 1998
In this sequel to Cousins (DC10270), Cammy and her third cousin Elodie are now twelve and still recovering from the…
drowning death of their cousin Patty Ann. As the girls eagerly await a family reunion, they meet a New York girl who seems tied to Cammy's divorced dad. Grades 5-8. 1998.Scattered seed (Sandberg family. #2)
By Maisie Mosco. 1980
The Sandberg and Moritz families live in England in the late 1930s. The two Jewish families, who have long shared…
a close bond, must now face a world war and modern forces that threaten to sunder some of their children from family and faith. Sequel to "Almonds and raisins". c1980.