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Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Born to prominent but dysfunctional Nashville parents, Bezellia Grove leans on disregarded African-American servants as substitute family figures and incites wrath from both groups when she pursues an interracial relationship.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages; 22 cm
Description
Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interracial marriage is illegal in 1941 San Francisco, is tested when Taichi's family is sent to Manzanar internment camp. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
423 pages
Description
At Smith's Sweet Treats and Coffee, you'll find Brooklyn's best house blend and the freshest homemade pastries. It's more than a business to owner Angela Smith. It's her home and her refuge--one she stands to lose thanks to her gouging landlord. Then a new regular offers to cover her rent increase if Angela lets him meet his clients there. If Matthew McConnell weren't such a persuasive lawyer--and so sweet, funny, and sexy--she wouldn't dream of letting...
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he'll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he must reconcile the family he loves with the woman who might be his soul mate. A New York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tension of Jewish American and African...
6) Party of two
Author
Series
Wedding dates volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
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...
7) Desertion
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In 1899 in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque, but he never gets there. Out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at Hassanali's feet. That man is Martin Pearce - writer, traveller and something of an Orentalist. Hassanali takes him to recuperate at the house of a colonial official, Frederck Turner. When Martin goes to thank Hassanali for his rescue, he meets Hassanali's sister and immediately...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
On Jess's first day at Goldman Sachs, she's less than thrilled to learn she'll be on the same team as Josh, her 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 tinged with undeniable...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages
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 omittingdetails 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...
10) Jack
Author
Series
Gilead novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
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...
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"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, desides to move to a quiet upstate New...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
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