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1) A mercy
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
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"In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of human emotion. How does it feel to be a child taken into a family that doesn't share her background, her religion, or the color of her skin? What does it mean to be a mother on trial for murder? And why would a lawyer choose...
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"Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that forever feeling slightly out of place was her fate as a transracial adoptee. But as Nicole grew up-facing...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
With four children of their own, Atlanta journalist Greene (There Is No Me Without You) and her husband, a criminal defense attorney, gradually adopted five more--one from Bulgaria and four from Ethiopia--to create a roiling, largehearted family unit.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In this country, unless you attain extraordinary wealth, you will likely be unable to help your loved ones in all the ways you'd hoped. You will learn to live with the specific, hollow guilt of those who leave hardship behind, yet are unable to bring anyone else with them. When Nicole Chung graduated from high school, she couldn't hightail it out of her overwhelmingly white Oregon hometown fast enough. As a scholarship student at a private university...
9) The landlord
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family₂s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.
10) The landlord
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
c2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A wealthy young man leaves his family's estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad. But after meeting the tenats, he adopts a "Love thy neighbor" policy instead.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In "You Should Be Grateful," Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrativeof adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging"--
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
In this heartfelt companion to Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, a young trans-racial adoptee learns to appreciate both her birth culture and her adopted family's culture, discovering these differences are part of her and what makes her beautiful.
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