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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.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.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.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.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.By Pamela L Laskin. 2017
Ronit, an Israeli girl, lives on one side of the fence. Jamil, a Palestinian boy, lives on the other side.…
Only miles apart but separated by generations of conflict--much more than just the concrete blockade between them. Their fathers, however, work in a distrusting but mutually beneficial business arrangement, a relationship that brings Ronit and Jamil together. And lightning strikes. The kind of lightning that transcends barrier fences, war, and hatred. The teenage lovers fall desperately into the throes of forbidden love, one that would create an irreparable rift between their families if it were discovered. But a love this big can only be kept secret for so long. Ronit and Jamil must face the fateful choice to save their lives or their loves, as it may not be possible to save both. For senior high readers. 2017.By Barry Unsworth. 1992
A tale of the mid-eighteenth-century slave trade. In 1752, William Kemp has a cargo ship built to transport slaves from…
Africa to the West Indies. Shipboard life is terrifying. The ship is becalmed, the crew and slaves sicken and die, the ship's doctor leads a mutiny, and the remaining crew and slaves find shelter on the uninhabited coast of Florida. Some violence. Booker Prize 1992.By Calvin A Ramsey, Gwen Strauss. 2011
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on…
a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book." Grades K-3. 2011.By Mahbod Seraji. 2009
A 17-year-old boy in Tehran finds his rooftop the perfect escape for taking in the night sky, smoking cigarettes and…
catching occasional glimpses of his beautiful neighbour. But when his lofty perch allows him to witness the brutality of the regime under which he lives, everything changes for the boy and those close to him. 2009.By Lori Lansens. 2002
Adelaide Shadd was born in southwestern Ontario in the first decade of the 20th century in an all-black town settled…
by fugitive slaves. Tragedy strikes more than once but she endures. Now an old woman, she lives a quiet existence in a trailer park not far from her birthplace. When five-year-old Sharla Cody is abandoned on her doorstep, she is forced to relive the unbearable sorrows of her past. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.By Uri Orlev, Hillel Halkin. 2003
Eight-year-old Srulik escapes from Warsaw's Jewish ghetto and survives the rest of the war in Nazi-occupied Poland by pretending to…
be a Christian. After the war, having lost an arm, he reaffirms his original faith. Some violence. Grades 5-8. 2003. Uniform title: Ruts, yeled, ruts.By Kevin Kwan. 2017
When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside.…
but he's not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake a claim on their matriarch's massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park, a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore, Nicholas's childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu, but tormented by her ex-husband, a man hell bent on destroying Astrid's reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong, married to China's second richest man, billionaire Jack Bing, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter, famous fashionista Colette Bing. A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong's most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most privileged families and their rich people problems. Sequel to "China Rich Girlfriend". 2017.By Lutishia Lovely. 2010
The young Reverend Nate Thicke has made quite the reputation for himself, but when he falls in love and gets…
married, he swears to become a one-woman man. Most of his congregation forgives him for his past sins, but some aren't quite ready to give the Reverend a second chance. 2010.By Mary Monroe. 2018
A successful, happily married mother suddenly finds herself feeling far from joyful. But Christmas brings an unexpected chance to rediscover…
herself, and what happiness really means. For Beatrice Powell, the holidays are usually an extra-special time to celebrate. Between her twenty-year-plus marriage, gorgeous Berkeley, California, home, and three wonderful adult children, she has everything she could desire. But change-of-life doubts are making Beatrice a stranger to herself and her bewildered family. She only finds peace volunteering at the local soup kitchen, especially helping out homeless Charles Davenport. And his sensitivity and honesty soon comfort her in ways she never imagined. Charles thought he had it all-until a devastating betrayal and the shattering loss of his family drove him to living on the streets. Beatrice is the first person who's truly cared about him in a long time. And little by little, he's finding reasons to care about rebuilding his life-and risking a sudden, courageous choice. Drawn to Charles and the temptation of a second chance, Beatrice is faced with the hardest of decisions. But his insight, secrets-and the reminder of a profound past encounter-will give her unexpected inspiration, gratitude, and the strength she needs to find her way-perhaps in time for Christmas. 2018.By Alejandro Saravia, María José Giménez. 2017
In Montreal, Alfredo struggles with his memories of being ordered to commit an atrocity by the Bolivian army. Despising his…
nation as an oppressive sham, he falls for a woman who has no nation--a Kurdish freedom-fighter trying to blast an independent Kurdistan into existence. As the net of intrigue closes in on his lover, Alfredo must finally face his past. 2017. Uniform title: Rojo, amarillo y verde.By Pamela Mordecai. 2015
Growing up on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter never feels like she really belongs. Although her large,…
extended family is black, she is a redibo. Her skin is copper-coloured, her hair is red, and her eyes are grey. A neighbour taunts her, calling her “a little red jacket,” but the reason for the insult is never explained. Only much later does Grace learn the story of her birth mother and decipher the mystery surrounding her true identity. 2015.By Mary Monroe. 2005
San Francisco. Six diverse women down on their luck feel they have no choice but to work for pimp Clyde…
Brooks. The women bond together despite their problems and help Clyde raise his handicapped daughter Keisha - until tragedy strikes. 2005.By Susan Isaacs. 1998
At the turn of the century, two immigrants new to America marry and start a family. Generations later, two of…
their great-great-grandchildren, FBI agent Charlie and journalist Lauren, meet and fall in love while investigating a hate bombing in Wyoming. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. c1998.By Cheris F Hodges. 2012
Marie Charles' party-girl days come to a screeching halt with a DWI arrest and a totaled Jaguar. Sentenced to 500…
hours of community service at a local women's shelter, her only bright spot is a fellow volunteer, TV star Devon Harris. But Devon wants nothing to do with Marie and her selfish ways - until her work at the shelter has her turning over a new leaf. 2012.By Meesha Mink. 2012
Rapper Make$'s wifey, Harriet Jordan, finds herself out in the cold financially after Make$ is imprisoned for his role in…
the brutal rape of Luscious' friend and his business partner, Kaeyla "Goldie" Dennis, a misguided young woman who once ran a strip club out of her apartment. 2012.