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2) August Snow
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English
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August Snow, the son of an African American father and a Mexican mother and a disgraced former member of Detroit's police department, investigates the suspicious death of a local business magnate and finds himself up against the city's most dangerous criminals.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As a multiracial London vampire who has just left home, Lydia feels uprooted from her various identities. Food is intrinsic to Asian culture, but she cannot eat anything other than blood. She is not quite alive, and yet she will live forever. She is an artist who must create, but she is in constant fear that she?ll destroy in order to sustain herself. To be a vampire, she muses, is not unlike being a woman in a society in which one is either pure...
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English
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Newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, Jocelyn Fleming still aches with the pain of unexplored desire. And now her restless heart is leading her far from the protective bosom of polite London society to the perilous beauty of the American West . . .and to Colt Thunder.
Breathlessly exciting but dangerously unpredictable, Colt is a loner whose Cheyenne blood burns hotter than the blistering Arizona sun. Jocelyn's
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Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
7) Gracias
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Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
1st edición.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
9) Family tree
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Language
English
Description
When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
10) Miracle's boys
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English
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Twelve-year-old Lafayette's close relationship with his older brother Charlie changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of their mother.
12) A promised land
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English
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"In his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency--a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil"--!c Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Now a Fives Challenger, Jes travels the countryside to compete against adversaries of similar skill levels, using the opportunity to search for her missing twin sister, Bettany, only to be thrown into the center of the war that Lord Kalliarkos--the boy she still loves--is fighting against their country's enemies"--
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"Whispered secrets about her parents' past take on new urgency for Chariline as she pays one last visit to the land of her forefathers, the ancient kingdom of Cush. Raised as an orphan by her aunt, Chariline has only been told a few pieces of her parents' tragic love story. Her beautiful dark skin is proof that her father was Cushite, but she knows nothing else. While visiting her grandfather before his retirement as the Roman official in the queen's...
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Keeper of Night volume 1
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English
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Ren has collected souls in the London streets for centuries. When she fails to control her Shinigami abilities, she flees to Japan to be accepted, which she's never gotten from her fellow Reapers. With her younger brother, the only being on earth who cares for her, Ren enters the Japanese underworld to serve the Goddess of Death, only to learn that she must prove herself worthy here as well.
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English
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"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
19) Light in August
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English
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A novel about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, featuring some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, who is plagued by visions of Confederate horesemen; and Joe Christmas, a desperate, enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancentry.
20) Meet me halfway
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
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When seventh-grade classmates Mattie Gómez and Mercedes Miller realize they have the same Colombian father, they hatch a plan to run away from a school field trip to meet him for the first time.
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