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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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HL 670L
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English
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Alice Walker's iconic modern classic is now a Penguin Book." A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty...
2) Passing
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English
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"Irene Redfield, married to a successful physician, enjoys a comfortable life in Harlem. Reluctantly, she renews her friendship with old school friend, Clare Kendry. Clare, who like Irene is light skinned, 'passes' as white and is married to a racist white man who has no idea about Clare's racial heritage. Even though Irene knows that reigniting her friendship with Clare will lead to trouble, she can't resist allowing Irene into her world. Meanwhile,...
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Lexile measure
1220L
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English
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The classic novel of two mixed-race siblings who flee the South after the Civil War, hiding their identities'until a romance brings the truth to light. A landmark in African American literature, The House Behind the Cedars tells the tale of Rena Walden, who runs away from North Carolina to start a new life with her brother. Their mixed ancestry allows them to "pass" as white'and they settle into life in Clarence, South Carolina, keeping their past...
4) Quicksand
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English
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Born to a white Danish mother and a Black American father, Helga Crane has long struggled to carve a path for herself amid the racial segregation of the early twentieth century. As a teacher at an all-Black boarding school in the South, Helga quickly becomes unsettled by the way the school measures excellence based on proximity to whiteness. Journeying to Chicago, Harlem, and Copenhagen, she attempts to thrive free from the constraints of category--mother...
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"The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series. Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people...
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English
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Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire--just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there's no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
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Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 2
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English
Description
Kiki Swinson’s novels sizzle with brutally unpredictable characters, breakneck plotting—and a uniquely gritty portrait of Southern life. Now she breaks all the rules as a young woman with two targets on her back tries to keep those she loves—and herself—alive .
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Blessings volume 5
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English
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"Henry Adams has had its fair share of drama ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town with her divorce settlement. Now just when things are starting to settle down, it's about to get crazy again... Cephas Patterson doesn't just want to be left alone-if you dare step onto his property, he'll meet you with a shotgun and a warning to stay away from his gold. He reminds Zoey of the lonely time she spent living on the streets, so she quietly begins leaving...
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Thug novels volume 1
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English
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"In a 'hood boiling over with sex, brutality and crime, three friends are at a turning point. But a tangled web of sex and violence binds the women to the very place that could destroy them."--
11) Conspiracy
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Parker crime chronicles novel volume 01
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English
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When elite escort Abrianna Parker is framed for murder, she must evade the police, government agencies, and a lethal third party in order to clear her name, relying on a sexy ex-con to help her expose a web of corruption.--
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"In The Solace of Water, Elizabeth Byler Younts tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected.After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher's wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Montgomery, Alabama, to Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was becoming...
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Blessings volume 7
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English
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"In Henry Adams, Kansas, you can't start over without stirring things up. Many a good woman has had to leave a no-good man, but how many of them took a back-seat to his 600-lb. hog? On her own for the first time, Genevieve Gibbs is ecstatic, even if certain people preferred the doormat version of Ms. Gibbs. Finding someone who appreciates the "new" her has only just hit Gen's to-do list when T.C. Barbour appears in her life. When Gen's ex Riley returns...
14) A hope divided
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English
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For all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods; tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners; and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Then the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in the guerrilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause. Escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in Marlie's laboratory;...
15) Thug matrimony
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Thug novels volume 3
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English
Description
Angel has started her own law practice and a new life with Kaylin, a drug dealer who's stepped out of the game to run a recycling business and hot new record label. When an unwanted guest crashes their wedding, all the rage and bloodlust from the hood comes bustin' out-- and Angel's gonna need every prayer in heaven to make it to the altar alive...
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Divorced and remarried, Rev. Curtis Black is now head of a newly-formed church. Trouble is, Curtis can't stay on the straight and narrow, as his second marriage sours and he takes up with former lover Adrienne and then Carmen, the mother of his teenage daughter, Alicia. Alicia herself, resentful of Curtis's lack of attention, meets someone over the Internet, and soon finds herself in trouble. And as his professional and personal relationships crumble,...
17) Another Brooklyn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
18) King divas
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"Each [voice] rings with street cred . . . Diamond has created one of urban fiction's few works that feature female gangs."—Library Journal
The most ruthless ride-or-die women of Memphis saved their empire by nearly destroying the streets. But as unexpected new rivals rise and brutal secrets shatter lives, betrayal means winner rules all . . .
Putting out chaos with gasoline is one play that even the women of...
The most ruthless ride-or-die women of Memphis saved their empire by nearly destroying the streets. But as unexpected new rivals rise and brutal secrets shatter lives, betrayal means winner rules all . . .
Putting out chaos with gasoline is one play that even the women of...
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Black girls must die exhausted volume 1
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English
Description
After learning she might not be able to have children, thirty-three-year-old Tabitha Walker, a black woman planning to "have it all," watches her dreams dissolve and must rely on her two best friends to get through
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Banks sisters volume 1
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English
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When their mother Ruth falls ill, quarreling sisters Tina, Tasha, and Tamera turn to a bank heist to pay the bills, and must stay ahead of law enforcement when they put the heat on.
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