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1) Artifacts
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Faye Longchamp has inherited her family's old island plantation home, but she's too poor to pay the taxes. She starts digging to find artifacts to sell on the black market, and she digs into the grave of a murdered woman.
3) In the fall
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
542 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jeffrey Lent's astonishing debut novel, In the Fall, is already creating a sensation. It has been chosen as a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, preempted for paperback for six figures, and acquired by leading publishers around the world. In the Fall is the extraordinary epic of three generations of an American family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the forbidden, transcendent love affairs that fuel its members over the...
4) Family tree
Author
Language
English
Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (137 pages).
Language
English
Description
Juggling soccer, school, friends, and family leave John with little time for anything else. But one day at the local community center, following the sound of drums, he stumbles into an Indigenous dance class. Before he knows what's happening, John finds himself stumbling through beginner classes with a bunch of little girls, skipping a soccer practice, and letting his other responsibilities slide. When he attends a pow wow and witnesses a powerful...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant,...
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Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
As a member of the Jade Society, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu dreams of honoring her family and the gods by becoming a warrior. But the Society has shunned Faryn and her brother Alex ever since their father disappeared years ago,...
10) The colors of us
Author
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her "mulatto War and Peace," she'll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp....
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight, their "cause" goes viral and the T-shirts become a nationwide social movement. As new chapters spring up from coast to coast, Asha realizes that her simple marketing plan has taken on a life of its own-and it's starting...
14) Dead man's trail
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
A mysterious gunman saves Yakima Henry and his partner from attack and dies in the process, leaving behind a large poke of gold. Yakima vows to take the gold to the shooter's family but his way is made difficult by snow and predators, both human and animal.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Self-educated and brown skinned, Cassie works full-time in her grandmother's laundry in rural Mississippi. Illiterate and white, Judith falls for 'colored music' and dreams of life as a big-city radio star. These teenaged girls are half sisters. And when they catch wind of their wayward father's inheritance coming down in Virginia, they hitch their hopes to a road trip together to claim what's rightly theirs. In an old junk car, with a frying pan,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twin daughters of interracial parents, eleven-year-olds Keira and Minna have very different skin tones and personalities, but it is not until their African American grandmother enters them in the Miss Black Pearl Pre-Teen competition in North Carolina that red-haired and pale-skinned Minna realizes what life in their small town in the Pacific Northwest has been like for her more outgoing, darker-skinned sister.
17) Prairie gothic
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (264 pages).
Language
English
Description
Buffalo Springs, Kansas Sheriff English joins with his part-Cheyenne step-brother Mad Dog to investigate the recent death of a baby and unearthed bones near a Native American burial site that point to the infiltration of a xenophobic group in the community.
18) Full cicada moon
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in 'boyish' topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cutthroat competition between railroad companies to lay track through the Royal Gorge territory is threatening to escalate into all-out war, with hired guns on both sides trading lead. If one man can bring peace to the high country, it's half-Lakota lawman Joshua Strongheart. Already looking into tales of a mysterious lone rider haunting Phantom Canyon, Strongheart braces himself to face down an army of gunfighters. But his most dangerous quarry...
20) Blended
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
"You're so exotic!!" "You look so unusual." "But what are you really?" Eleven-year-old Isabella - whose father is black and mother is white - is used to these kinds of comments, but it doesn't mean she likes them. And now that her parents are divorced (and getting along WORSE than ever), Isabella feels like a push-me-pull-me toy. Being split between Mom and Dad is more than swtiching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: It's switching...