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Author
Series
Kiss quotient novels volume 2
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story—a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood—compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama. For years, Vivian...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
320 pages
Description
"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
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The simple secrets to growing your curls healthy and long. Tightly curly hair isn't like any other type of hair, and it needs totally different care to make it happy. Do you spend countless hours-and untold dollars-on weaves, perms, salon visits, and products that promise to change, heal, or make your hair more manageable, only to end up even more frustrated? Do you wrestle daily with hair you can't get a brush through? Do you struggle to keep from...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
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"In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother?s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother?s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother?s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks...
10) Belle
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate daughter of a British Navy captain and an African slave under the care of her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield, successfully navigates prejudicial eighteenth-century English society and plays a part in the downfall of British slave trade.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut is a memoir about coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager within the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where cult-like privilege, shocking social and racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hide in plain sight. As a child in Florida, T Kira Madden lived a life of extravagance--from her exclusive private...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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Profiles Kamala Harris, U.S. senator and the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States, detailing the actions she has taken to achieve success in politics.
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
La azarosa historia de una esclava en el Santo Domingo del siglo XVIII que logrará zafarse de los estigmas que la sociedad le ha impuesto para conseguir la libertad y, con ella, la felicidad.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.
"The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
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