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Raymond and Hannah: A Love Story
By Stephen Marche. 2005
Just before a nine-month trip to Jerusalem to study the Torah, 20-something Hannah meets Raymond. A Gentile English literature doctoral…
candidate, he is attracted to Hannah at once. What begins as a passionate one-night tryst morphs into a full-scale global love affair, with e-mail and telephone exchanges building the relationship's momentum. Explicit descriptions of sex, strong language. 2005.Raise the red lantern: three novellas
By Michael S Duke, Tʻung Su. 1993
The title novella "Raise the Red Lantern" tells the story of Lotus, whose father's suicide forces her to become the…
concubine of a wealthy merchant. Crushed by loneliness, despair, and cruel treatment, Lotus finds her descent into insanity both a weapon and a refuge. "Nineteen Thirty-Four Escapes" is an account of a family's struggles during one momentous year; plagued by disease, death, and the shady promise of life in a larger town, the family slowly disintegrates. Finally, "Opium Family" details the last years of a landowning clan whose demise is brought about by corruption, lust, and treachery. 2004, c1993.Rage (The Courtneys of Africa ; #6)
By Wilbur A Smith. 1987
The long and deadly enmity between Manfred De La Rey and Sasha Courtney explodes as South Africa is swept by…
the fires of racial conflict. The two half-brothers are now ministers in a government dedicated to a vision of a sub-continent in which people of all races would be free to develop separately. Both men, however, must confront the ugly reality of apartheid and the growing isolation of their country in a cynical and hostile world. Violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Power of the sword" (DC29878). Followed by "Golden fox" (DC30634). 1987. (The Courtneys of Africa ; 6)Precious and the Boo Hag
By Onawumi Jean Moss, Pat McKissack. 2005
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying…
Boo Hag that her brother warned her about. Grades K-3. 2005,Prairie nocturne (Those Jensen boys!)
By Ivan Doig. 2011
Set during the 1920s, this novel finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's "Dancing at the Rascal Fair", now…
a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she agrees. But racial tensions erupt when Susan's private lessons with Monty attract the attention of the KKK. 2011.Pecking order (Griot audio)
By Omar Tyree. 2008
San Diego accountant Ivan David realizes his dream of becoming a party planner and partners with Italian Brazilian businesswoman Lucina…
Gallo. After years of hard work Ivan becomes wealthy and acts on his feelings for Lucina. Includes strong language and sex. 2008.Passing (Griot audio)
By Nella Larsen. 2003
First published in 1929, "Passing" is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a…
premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two African-American women who pass for white in a deeply segregated world. 2003.Paradise of the blind
By Thu Huong Duong. 1993
One of Vietnam's most outspoken novelists creates a portrait of three women attempting to maintain their dignity under a government…
that discards old values and tears families apart. At the centre of the novel is Hang, a woman forced to grow up too fast in the slums of Hanoi. In her search for identity she shocks her mother, yet her life mirrors others of her generation. 1993.Paradise
By Toni Morrison. 1998
In 1976, nine men from the all-black community of Ruby, Oklahoma attack a former convent on the edge of town,…
which is the refuge of four female outcasts. Various tragedies that have struck the townspeople motivate the assault, which is intended to purge and protect the community. But it also reveals dark secrets leading back to the town's origins in the 1890's. Bestseller. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1998.Pachinko
By Min Jin Lee. 2017
Following one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor…
yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja is saved when a young tubercular minister offers to marry and bring her to Japan. So begins a sweeping saga of an exceptional family in exile from its homeland and caught in the indifferent arc of history. Through desperate struggles and hard-won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity. Bestseller. 2017.Orhan's inheritance: a novel
By Aline Ohanesian. 2015
Inheriting the family kilim rug dynasty when his eccentric grandfather is found dead, Orhan struggles with will stipulations that leave…
the family estate to a stranger who holds secrets from the final years of the Ottoman Empire. 2015.Oreo
By Fran Ross. 2017
Oreo, a biracial black girl from Philadelphia, searches for her Jewish father in New York City, navigating the labyrinth of…
sound studios, brothels, and subway tunnels of Manhattan in a journey of self-discovery. 2017.One crazy summer
By Rita Williams-Garcia. 2010
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they…
barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp. Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Book Award. Grades 4-7. 2010.One amazing thing
By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. 2010
Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run…
high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles. In order to set their minds at ease, one of the nine suggest they each tell a personal story - one amazing thing that they have never shared before. 2010.One hundred million hearts
By Kerri Sakamoto. 2003
With both of Miyo's parents now dead, her father's secret past is being revealed. Miyo learns that she has a…
half-sister who was adopted in Japan. She travels to Tokyo to meet her half-sister and learns that her father was a kamikaze pilot in the war. 2003.Old habits die hard (Griot audio)
By La Jill Hunt. 2010
At a prestigious nail salon, the toughest nail techs and make-up artists share their romantic adventures, including Yaya, a diva…
who believes she has found love with a blue collar man, and Taryn, whose new crush has a few dark secrets. 2010.October suite
By Maxine Clair. 2002
African American teacher October Brown begins working in Kansas in 1950 - memories of her mother’s murder having faded. But…
she becomes pregnant with a married lover and, returning to Ohio, gives her son to her sister, Vergie. Over the years the sisters disagree over that decision. 2002.Noon in Calcutta: short stories from Bengal
By Andrew Robinson, Krishna Dutta. 1992
A collection of 26 short stories which spans the gamut of Bengali culture, past and present, from the orthodox Hindu…
of the last century to the violent social and political clashes of the recent decades. Interwoven are elements of folktale, fantasy, science and humour. 1992.No telephone to heaven
By Michelle Cliff. 1987
Angry at her father for suggesting she try to "pass", Clare, a light-skinned Jamaican native, moves to New York and…
spends several rootless years. She eventually returns to Jamaica in search of her identity and roots. Includes a glossary of Jamaican terms. 1987.No time like the present
By Nadine Gordimer. 2012
Once clandestine lovers under racist law forbidding sexual relations between white and black, Steven Reed and Jabulile Gumede are now…
living in the new South Africa. Steve is a university lecturer and Jabulile a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom. There is nothing so extraordinary about their lives, and yet, in their story, and the stories of their friends and families, are captured the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself in a post-apartheid world. 2012.