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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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2023.
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Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2023]
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English
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Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
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"Philbet Lawson is born in 1960s rural Georgia with two inescapable strikes against him: he's gay and physically misshapen, both of which inform his every thought, unless he's thinking about cars, his obsession. His world is populated by an ineffectual father; a devoted though fearful mother; a rowdy but popular older brother; his best friend, a Black boy who also understands the sting of being an outsider; boorish uncles who belittle Philbet for...
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"In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
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Formac Publishing Company Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Coming-of-age story following eighteen-year-old Adrian Carter as he graduates from high school and confronts difficult decisions about his future. Dealing with important themes (a desire for independence, identity, first love, familial tensions) from the nuanced perspective of a biracial teen, this story tackles key contemporary social issues: class differences, colourism in the Black community and the structural barriers limiting access to post-secondary...
8) Niewinny
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Wydawnictwo WAB
Pub. Date
2021.
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Polish
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Nauczyciel Bobby Nock zostaje oskarżony o uwiedzenie i zamordowanie swojej uczennicy, Jessiki Silver, dziedziczki miliardowej fortuny potentata na rynku nieruchomości. Werdykt ławy przysięgłych stanie się najbardziej sensacyjną częścią całego procesu. Nauczyciel zostaje uznany za niewinnego. Dziesięć lat później kręcony jest serial dokumentalny o tej sprawie. Ławnicy spotykają się ponownie, a jeden z nich twierdzi, że ma nowe dowody...
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iUniverse
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[2018]
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English
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"TJ and Jonathan are teen-age friends and teammates on the JV baseball team. Like many young people growing up in America in the late sixties, they have heroes. For TJ, who is white, it is Mickey Mantle, the aging star of the New York Yankees. For Jonathan, who is black, it is Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, 1968 is a bad year for heroes and—America. Their friendship is strained to the breaking point...
10) Mainely fear
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Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...