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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.See no evil (A marti Macalister Mystery Ser. #No. 6)
By Eleanor Taylor Bland. 1998
Detective Marti MacAlister of the Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, police department, investigates the murder of a young woman found alongside Lake…
Michigan. A homeless man is also missing from the area. While working, Marti is unaware that an intruder is entering her house regularly and stalking her family. Some strong language. 1998.Sarong party girls: a novel
By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan. 2016
On the edge of twenty-seven, Jazzy hatches a plan for her and her best girlfriends: Sher, Imo, and Fann. Before…
the year is out, these Sarong Party Girls will all have spectacular weddings to rich ang moh--Western expat--husbands, with Chanel babies (the cutest status symbols of all) quickly to follow. Razor-sharp, spunky, and vulgarly brand-obsessed, Jazzy is a determined woman who doesn't lose. As she fervently pursues her quest to find a white husband, this bombastic yet tenderly vulnerable gold digger reveals the contentious gender politics and class tensions thrumming beneath the shiny exterior of Singapore's glamorous nightclubs and busy streets, its grubby wet markets and seedy hawker centers. Moving through her colorful, stratified world, she realizes she cannot ignore the troubling incongruity of new money and old-world attitudes which threaten to crush her dreams. 2016.Savage theories: a novel
By Roy Kesey, Pola Oloixarac. 2017
A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service…
of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against his wishes. Meanwhile, a young couple--a documentary filmmaker and a blogger--engage in a series of cerebral and sexual misadventures. In a novel crammed with philosophy, group sex, revolutionary politics, and a fighting fish named Yorick, Oloixarac leads her characters and the reader through dazzling and digressive intellectual byways to an Internet hack that confronts us with a catalogue of historical violence, devastation, and atrocity throughout the centuries. 2017. Uniform title: Teorías salvajes.Salt houses: a novel
By Hala Alyan. 2017
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. She…
sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia's brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can't escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990, Alia and her family once again lose their home, their land, and their story as they know it, scattering to Beirut, Paris, Boston, and beyond. Soon Alia's children begin families of their own, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. 2017.Say it ain't so (Griot audio)
By La Jill Hunt. 2010
After they are in a car accident together, video vixen Paisley Lawrence and gospel singer Warren Cobb are mobbed by…
media speculation. And if that's not enough, Warren's wife has a few questions of her own. With rumours flying and speculation rampant, these two must straighten out their stories before tempers get out of control. 2010.Rutabaga et Sibemol
By Roxanne Turcotte. 2005
Rutabaga est jaloux du chant des oiseaux. Déterminé à mieux chanter que le rossignol du jardin, il part à la…
rencontre du meilleur maître de chant de la région, Monsieur Sibémol. Or, le logis du professeur est entouré d'étranges monstres que Rutabaga va lui faire connaître. Années M-2. 2005.Rescapé
By Jean-Pierre Gorkynian. 2015
Les débuts de manuscrit que Youssef empile dans la boîte au pied de son bureau sont autant de morceaux de…
miroir dans lesquels se reflète son identité fragmentée. Zoé partie, le Moyen-Orient à feu et à sang... Comment réussir à faire naître le sens d'un monde en déroute dans lequel on n'a pas trouvé sa place ? Comment rêver quand il nous est impossible de même fermer l'oil ? Je me rappelle la gifle que je me suis prise sur la gueule quand j'ai dit à mon père que je voulais être écrivain. Ce n'était pas la première fois qu'il me frappait, mais cette gifle-là avait quelque chose de définitif. Il n'avait pas quitté une vie de merde pour que je mène une vie de merde. 2015.Rosa et son secret (Peregrino. #2.)
By Cecilia Samartin, Mélanie Carpe. 2013
" Depuis que le señor Peregrino a achevé le récit de son pèlerinage de jeunesse à Compostelle, lui révélant l'existence…
de Rosa - l'amour de sa vie, son éternel remords -, Jamilet n'a plus qu'une idée : découvrir la vérité sur cette femme qui lui semble si proche. Afin de percer le mystère qui l'entoure, Jamilet s'empare de documents qui la conduisent en Espagne, sur les traces de Rosa... et de ses propres racines. Elle entraîne le señor Peregrino dans un voyage qui les mène aux portes d'un couvent... D'une manière qui n'appartient qu'à elle, Cecilia Samartin tisse le destin parallèle de deux femmes, jusqu'à un dénouement inattendu. Optimistes et émouvants, les romans de Cecilia Samartin parlent au coeur de chacun d'entre nous. Rosa et son secret ne fait pas exception. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: La Peregrina.Ru
By Kim Thúy. 2009
Ru est composé de très courts récits liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle : la première phrase du chapitre…
reprend le plus souvent l’idée qui terminait le chapitre précédent, permettant ainsi de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, la fuite avec les boat people, son accueil dans une petite ville du Québec, ses études, ses liens familiaux, son enfant autiste, etc. La vie de l’auteure est bourrée de gens charmants, singuliers, de situations difficiles ou saugrenues vécues avec un bonheur égal, et elle sait jouer à merveille avec les sentiments du lecteur, oscillant entre le tragique et le comique, entre le prosaïque et le spirituel. 2009.Rêves amers (Les romans de Je bouquine. 119)
By Maryse Condé. 2001
Constatant leur misère, les parents de Rose-Aimée envoient leur fille dans une famille à Port-à-Prince. Une famille où elle est…
maltraitée et malheureuse. Elle la quitte pour un emploi de nettoyage dans un restaurant. Elle se révolte, finalement, et décide de partir à Miami avec une fillette ayant subi un sort semblable au sien. Une histoire tragique, inspirée d'un fait réel, qui dépeint la condition misérable des enfants de l'un des pays les plus pauvres de la planète. Années 4-7. 2001.