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Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of "Snow White" set in the "gritty gun-slinging west."
Her parents were a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him; her mother's life ended as hers began. Our narrator, born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child, is hidden for years by a very wicked stepmother who gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale...
44) Passing
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Language
English
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Description
Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
45) Gracias
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
Un muchacho multirracial celebra la familia, la amistad y la diversión por contar algunas de las cosas cotidianas por las que está agradecido.
46) Flicker and mist
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Language
English
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Description
"In a story rich in intrigue, adventure, danger, and romance, a mixed-race teen heroine must decide which part of her heritage to claim: her privileged status, or her ability to become invisible for which her kin are being persecuted"--
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Series
Nahx invasions volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx invade. Isolated in the wilderness, Raven and her fellow campers can only stay put. Await rescue. Raven doesn't like feeling helpless, but what choice does she have? Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend. Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit, their survival comes to depend...
48) Tandia
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2000
Language
English
Description
Tandia is a child of all Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful & intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalized by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist. With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay.
49) Good job, Kanani
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Hawaiian girl spends more time selling "shave ice" and less time surfing, her relationship with her best friend begins to unravel.
50) Arthur & George
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and explores the grand tapestry of late-Victorian Britain.
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves...
As boys, George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, living in shabby genteel Edinburgh, find themselves...
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies, with her father's life at stake.
53) Calloused hands
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.
Author
Series
Marisol McDonald volume 1
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
Marisol McDonald, a biracial, nonconformist, soccer-playing pirate-princess with brown skin and red hair, celebrates her uniqueness.
Author
Series
Charlie Thorne volume 1
Language
English
Description
The CIA forces twelve-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Thorne, a rebellious genius, to use her code-breaking skills on an epic global chase to locate Einstein's last equation before dangerous agents discover it and unlock the solution to harnessing energy.
58) Grace: a novel
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For a runaway slave in the 1840s South, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic master. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she leaves behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There, amid a revolving door of gamblers, prostitutes,...
59) The land
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 8
Language
English
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Read by Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Approx. 12 hours, 15 minutes
8 cassettes
The prequel to Newbery Medal winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) is born during the Civil War, the son of a white plantation owner father and a former slave mother. Though this heritage was not unusual for the time, this upbringing is. Paul-Edward's father sees to it that...
Approx. 12 hours, 15 minutes
8 cassettes
The prequel to Newbery Medal winner Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Paul-Edward Logan, grandfather of Cassie (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) is born during the Civil War, the son of a white plantation owner father and a former slave mother. Though this heritage was not unusual for the time, this upbringing is. Paul-Edward's father sees to it that...
60) Endangered
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
"When Lauren (Panda), a teen photoblogger, gets involved in a deadly game, she has to protect the classmates she despises"--
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