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2) Untraceable
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall's biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school--until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Worse, her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker and her scientist dad has gone MIA. Amani also has to navigate her new underfunded school in the city and suffer the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind....
5) High cotton
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
High Cotton is an extraordinarily rich account of the dreams and inner turmoils of a new generation of the black upper middle class, capturing the essence of a part of American society that has mostly been ignored in literature. The novel's protagonist journeys from his childhood home in the midwest to college, a stint in New York publishing, and Europe, yet the issue of his "blackness" remains at the heart of his being.
Author
Publisher
Studio Fun International
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Sesame Street, a place where people, monsters, grouches, and even fairies live! Tamir appreciates everyone in his neighborhood--no matter where they live, what they eat, or what kind of family they have"--Back cover.
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