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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A debut novel interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis: drop everything and drive from Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own, agrees. It's a journey that changes both their lives, as she learns Isabelle's tale of a forbidden relationship...
Author
Series
Caribbean heritage volume 3
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Jess lands a job as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her preppy, white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil's advocate and is just...the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it's Josh who shows up for her in surprising--if imperfect--ways. Before long, an unlikely friendship--one...
7) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Marilynne Robinson's mythical world of Gilead, Iowa--the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack--and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world. Jack is Robinson's fourth novel in this now-classic series. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead's Presbyterian minister, and his...
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A school experiment called "the color game" divides the students into social classes and Amy Sumoto plans to sabotage the game that keeps her "a class above" handsome Adam Tarcher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In North Carolina's tight-knit Oak Knoll neighborhood, professor Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who is headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans, an apparently traditional family, move in next door. Popular local businessman Brad had new money, ambition, a wife who escaped her upbringing in a trailer park, and a secretly troubled teenaged daughter. With little in common except a property...
10) Lives of our own
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking about her father's past, and discovers a surprising link with one of the "popular" white girls at school.
11) Sayonara
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An American Air Force major on leave in Japan during the Korean War falls in love with a Japanese dancer. When they declare their love openly, they find themselves scorned equally by both the Japanese and Americans.
13) Incorrigible
Author
Series
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
15) Party of two
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
17) A good man
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Former professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the show's designated white guy.
Publisher
Laguna Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
"Una cantante blanca se opone a la re[lac]ión amorosa entre su hija, una estudiante de filosofía, y un médico de color; pero luego tendrá que ir contra sus sentimientos cuando su hija enferma gravemente pues tendrá que aceptar un transplante de corazón de parte de una amiga condenada a morir"--Container.
A white singer is against the relationship between her daughter, a student of philosophy, and a doctor of color; but soon she will have...
19) Good intentions
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"If love really is a choice, how do you decide where your loyalties lie? It's the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve and Nur is steeling himself to tell his parents that he's seeing someone. A young British Pakistani man, Nur has spent years omitting details about his personal life to maintain his image as the golden eldest child. And it's come at a cost. Once, Nur was a restless college student, struggling to fit in. At a house party, he meets...