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(0)Adepero Oduye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid, and follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), the author allows herself to go beyond the record...
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Language
English
Description
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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Language
English
Description
"The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own words--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death." -- amazon.com.
An acclaimed musician, Prince Rogers Nelson was a visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds. But his most ambitious creative act was turning himself into...
4) War girls
Author
Series
War girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life. To ensure a lasting peace, The New Society forbids anything that may cause tribal loyalties, including traditional families. Born at the end of the old world, Miriam does not know it is the beginning of a darkly sinister program that will transform this new world and the lives of everyone in it. Eventually, the harmful effects of her research become...
6) The dinner
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
8) Pariah
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The revelatory and assured feature debut by Dee Rees is a coming-of-age tale of a queer Black woman navigating the expression of her gender and sexual identities, built around a beautifully layered performance from Adepero Oduye.
9) The Dinner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A dark psychological thriller where two estranged brothers and their wives meet at a restaurant to discuss a grotesque crime committed by their sons. With their involvement still a secret, they must decide how far they’ll go to protect the ones they love. A riveting story filled with many shocking twists and turns, THE DINNER is a chilling parable about the savage reality hidden beneath the surface of middle-class lives. Based on Herman Koch’s...
10) Wanderland
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
To escape his isolated life in New York City, Alex impulsively accepts an email invitation to house-sit a picturesque “Enchanted Cottage" on Long Island in the off-season. Left with a broken USB cord and no cellphone coverage, he ventures out to find a working charger, only to end up hopelessly lost on a surreal all-night odyssey of misadventures. Forced to finally connect face to face with the eccentric characters he encounters, Alex discovers...
11) Pariah
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl must decide between the life that she wishes to have and the life that her parents have picked out for her.
12) Train Baby
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Language
English
Description
Amid his deep loneliness and obsessive-compulsive addictions, David (Keith Powell) finds an abandoned baby on a subway train and believes it is a sign of a better life.
13) Emily and Tim
Author
Language
English
Description
Portrayed by six diverse sets of actors, the tumultuous marriage of Emily and Tim demonstrates that no matter who we are - man, woman, black, white, gay, straight - we all love the same.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The hurt locker: US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. With only thirty-nine days left on their current deployment, members of Bravo Company will have to face their own internal issues as they work, always aware that anyone they encounter may be bombers themselves.
Lost in translation: A middle-aged actor and the wife of a workaholic...
