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Author
Series
Miniaturist novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
In 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt, on her eighteenth birthday, which marks the day her mother died, receives a parcel containing a miniature figure of her secret lover, which changes her fate forever.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in "boyish" topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider.
12) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York.
15) New people
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
16) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Publisher
Phyllis Fogelman Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.
17) Adrift
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Description
The resilience of two cousins is tested when one of them is lost at sea and washes up on a deserted island while the other remains at home, holding on to the belief that her beloved cousin is still alive.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
424 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Description
In an alternate Tang Dynasty China, aspiring royal alchemist Zilan, who has the ability to resurrect the dead, arrives in the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country and becomes drawn into the dangerous political games of the royal family.
19) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Biracial twin sisters--one who presents as black and the other as white--are determined to put the ghosts of the past to rest and to uncover the truth behind their parents' murders in the Jim Crow South.
Author
Series
Mysterium (Julian Sedgwick) volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"To discover the truth behind his parents' deaths, Danny must travel with the avant-garde Mysterium circus to Berlin, while assassins chase them and a traitor lurks among the group"--
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