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1) On beauty
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English
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Struggling with a stale marriage and the misguided passions of his three adult children, art professor Howard Belsey finds his family life thrown into turmoil by his son's engagement to the socially prominent daughter of a right-wing icon.
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English
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"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Dreams of My Mothers is based on the true story of two mothers' transcendent love for the same boy. It is a love that reaches across the globe, propels them and him on a riveting and unimaginable path of transformation and triumph. It is a story that will speak to everyone who reads it; a story that tells us that love alone is not enough. Transcendent love is exceptionally rare, requiring sacrifice beyond normal boundaries, a faith beyond all doubts,...
5) Mixed me!
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English
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Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, completely comfortable with his identity and his parents--and his wild, curly hair.
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English
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"The Girl Who Fell from the Sky can actually fly." -The New York Times Book Review
Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.
Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular....
8) I'm chocolate, you're vanilla: raising healthy Black and biracial children in a race-conscious world
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
9) America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
America is a biracial boy with a troubled past and what seems to be a very uncertain future. While staying at a treatment center he must learn through the help of his therapist and another patient to confront his past demons in order to begin a new life for himself. Includes a featurette.
12) Full cicada moon
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English
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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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.
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English
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"Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler's deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith hidden, so Ally sets in motion a dangerous and desperate plan to send her daughter across the ocean to safety....
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Vanderbeekers volume 6
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English
Description
"In this . . . adventure in the. . . series, the Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. She is so good that even though she is too young to join a team, and her intern contract forbids her to skate with them, her coach has her playing scrimmages. The indigenous Martian she's hiding in her garage, named Qiqi, has given her roller skates that can be used outside in the harsh Martian landscape. This cross-training is paying off well....
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Español
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"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy . . . like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much . . . like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her....
20) Saga: Volume six
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
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