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English
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After witnessing her uncle's murder, Dr. Katelyn Lyda is running for her life and comes face to face with a breathtaking man who could be her salvation. It's too bad Sebastian Caine is one of the bad guys--a "recovery specialist" who's after an ancient relic.
2) Family tree
Author
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
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Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
Author
Publisher
Agora Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY THE GUARDIAN UK Pittsburgh, 1995. The son of a black father he's never known and a white mother he sometimes wishes he didn't, 22-year-old Bobby Saraceno is passing for white. Raised by his bigoted maternal grandfather, Bobby has hidden his truth from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned home from...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she really is. Her mother's death leads her to find her father's...
6) Swift River
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Gigi wants to go by something besides her baby name--but her full name, Geraldine, is too long to write and Hanako, her middle name, doesn't feel quite right. Will Gigi find the perfect name?"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"-- Provided by publisher.
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misnamed Oasis Mobile Estates is all they can afford. In this new community, where residents are down on their luck but rich in humor and escape plans, Lara navigates what...
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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In 1840 England, Orabella, the orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman with no fortune or connections, is married off to the wealthy Elias Blakersby and, whisked away to his family’s estate, becomes engulfed by the house’s darkness, making her question where her dreams and reality begins.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...
13) Ramona: a story
Author
Publisher
Signet Classic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
14) Ben and Beatriz
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beatriz Herrera, a queer, biracial Harvard senior, must put aside her dislike for rich, white playboy Ben Montgomery, in order to save someone's life in a reimagined version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
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English
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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie lives alone in the mountains of Alaska. Clay is totally focused on his goal of being a missionary like his father-- until he meets a young, independent Indian woman with the most striking blue eyes he's ever seen. Will he be forced to choose between ministering to the natives, and the quiet nudging of his heart?
Author
Series
Infinity courts volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A circus takes down a crime-boss on the galaxy's infamous pleasure moon.Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in- the pleasure moon where everyone just wants to be lost in the party. It doesn't take long for him to catch the attention of the crime boss who owns the resort-casino where he lands a circus job, and when the boss gets wind of the bounty on Jes' head,...
19) Aloha, Kanani
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
©2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When the tropical paradise of Kauai, Hawaii, fails to impress her cousin from New York City, ten-year-old Kanani wonders why nothing seems to make her happy.
20) The way of love
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1879, Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew Gratton, an injured riverboat captain, a friendship grows between them--but will secrets and rising tensions prevent them from finding true happiness?"--Provided by publisher.
Portland, 1879. Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor and use her gift to help the native populations. When she meets Andrew...
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