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1) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
2) Feminista
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English
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Sydney Zamora has created a fabulous life for herself in Manhattan as a stylish, celebrity journalist, but her fierce independence tends to push men away, and even though she is more than ready for a mate, Sydney is understandably reluctant when her sister suggests she employ matchmaker Mitzi Berman.
3) The help
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
4) Yellow moon
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Marie Levant, an emergency room doctor at New Orleans Charity Hospital--and an ancestor of a voodoo queen--discovers evidence from a collection of murder victims that the wazimamoto--an African vampire--has been resurrected and has designs for Marie's loved ones.
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin, four friends experiencing midlife drama regarding marriages and other relationships, help each other get through the painful changes in order to find true happiness and achieve their dreams.
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In 1923, African American Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia, settles in Philadelphia, marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, loses her first-born twins, and raises her next nine children to face a world that will not love them.
8) Love
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English
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A major addition to the canon of one of the world’s literary masters.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories,...
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories,...
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Eric Jerome Dickey strides boldly over the minefield that is modern marriage. The central couple's biggest challenge is timing: He works days; she works nights. Instead of growing together, they're rapidly drifting apart, coexisting on stolen phone calls from work, punctuated by occasional bedroom encounters that leave them both feeling even emptier and more alone. When she finds out about his affair-and starts her own-the delicate fabric of their...
10) Cane River
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Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture Starring Emmy Award Winner and Oscar Nominee Viola Davis; "An eye-opening look at the little-explored area of a black frontier woman in the American West." --Chicago Sun-Times Praised by Alice Walker and many other bestselling writers, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree is an award-winning debut novel with incredible heart about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen. Reminiscent of The Color Purple, as...
12) The color purple
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
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What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love?It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she’s given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed...
20) Another Brooklyn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they believed that they were beautiful, talented, brilliant--a part of a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful veneer, there was another Brooklyn,...
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