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"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ... The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet...
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"Egypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won?t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie?s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane?s plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of Mr. Redvers, a roguish banker she can?t quite figure out . . . While the Mena House has...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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362 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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Series
Finding Langston volume 2
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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199 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind...
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Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Wattpad Books edition.
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292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and accepting"--Back...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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xviii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with...
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Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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277 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Eva is excited for a visit from her sister Alice, who lives in Suffolk with her husband and three children. But when Alice arrives alone, desiring a break from her family, Eva becomes concerned. Her dismay deepens as Alice starts spending time with a former beau, Keenan Ripley, who owns the nearby pear orchard. At the same time, Phoebe's sister Julia, now a widow and pregnant, is in a fretful state, and Phoebe struggles to be helpful to her. When...
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