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2021.
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The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by an award winning author, traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy...
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In 1951, Sam Vincent is confronted with his deepest fears about the nature of evil when he travels to the Thebes State Penal Farm (Colored) in Thebes, Mississippi, to investigate a disappearance and finds the African-American town run like a police state by whites, and the prison itself controlled through sadistic violence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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A young Muslim American is living the American dream with an education at an Ivy League college, high-paying job, and a romance with a member of the elite New York social circles, until the events of September 11th turns his life upside down and force him to confront his personal allegiances.
4) Four spirits
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sena Jeter Naslund creates a tapestry of American social transformation at once intimate and epic. In Birmingham, Alabama, twenty-year-old Stella Silver, an idealistic white college student, is sent reeling off her measured path by events of 1963. Combining political activism with single parenting and night-school...
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"Sophie Heller and her family sacrificed everything to escape Nazi Germany, yet as war fever sweeps their small town of Victory, Illinois, they become tagets of whispered accusations and a vicious attack. Her father won't go to the law, but Sophie, now a newspaperwoman, vows to expose those behind the threats. Her own ally is Cole Ambrose, a teacher whose quiet sterngth slowly earnes her trust ... and hides secret pain. But will their defiance - and...
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"In eleven ... stories, [the author] gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by"--Amazon.com.
7) Grass roots
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After years as chief of staff for a venerable Georgia senator, Will Lee decides to run for the seat himself when a stroke cripples his mentor. Standing in his way are an ambitious governor in the Democratic primary and, possibly, a far-right fundamentalist in the general election. In addition, Will must interrupt his campaign to serve as the defense lawyer in a controversial race-murder trial, while elsewhere, a dedicated ex-cop pursues the head of...
8) Grant Park
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[2015]
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English
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"Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras as it unfolds. Disillusioned columnist...
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"A searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago--inspired by the author's own family history. Birmingham, 1929: Robert Lee Harrington, a master carpenter, has just moved to Alabama to pursue a job opportunity, bringing along his pregnant wife and young daughter. Birmingham is in its heyday, known as the 'Magic City' for its...
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Shiloh legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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Max Meyer, a Jew from New York; Ellis Warne, an Irish doctor's son; Birch Tucker, an Arkansas farm boy; and African-American Jefferson Canfield, join together in a common cause on the battlefield of the Great War, but their friendship is tested by the racial, religious, and cultural intolerance they encounter when they return home.
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Early 1970s. The Vietnam War is raging, the US Navy has only recently begun the process of integration, and the country is reeling from racial turmoil and unrest. César Alvarez, a street-tough kid of Afro-Cuban descent, enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime--and Mr. Mike, a sociopathic gangster who was once a mentor but has now turned on him. Deployed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, he finds racial tensions are high and are moving quickly toward...
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Dawn of Alaska volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Jonas Redding never wants to be a lawman again. He's spent a decade as a US Marshal, wearing a tin star on his chest and chasing dangerous criminals across the great state of Texas. But when a case goes wrong, Jonas finds himself standing over two tombstones-- his mother's and his fiancée's. Resolved to protect his sister from meeting the same fate, Jonas cuts off all communication with her, changes his name, and heads north to the vast, untamed...
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"Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the...
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