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1) Family tree
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When a white couple gives birth to a baby with distinctly black features, a family is thrown into turmoil.
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Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, either in her hometown or on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of college, but when her family is struck by tragedy she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, a new recruit on her brother Levi's hockey team. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional...
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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.
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Remixed classics volume 4
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2022.
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"Two lost souls cut off from their heritage find solace in each other in this remix of the gothic novel Wuthering Heights"--
6) Passing
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Clare Kendry, a beautiful light-skinned African American woman married to a white man who is unaware of her heritage, long ago cut all ties to her past, but a reunion with a childhood friend forces her to confront her lies.
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2023.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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The mirror volume 3
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2022.
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In San Francisco in 1965, eighteen-year-old Blake Estancia searches the city for magical relics tied to her family's curse, reclaiming her dormant abilities along the way and barely managing to keep a step ahead of a murderous secret society.
10) Jubilee
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1090L
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The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
11) Saratoga trunk
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The basis for the classic film starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman, Saratoga Trunk is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's enthralling saga of love, greed, and power set in New Orleans and Saratoga during the late nineteenth century.
Saratoga Trunk unfolds the story of Clio Dulaine, an ambitious Creole beauty who more than meets her match in Clint Maroon, a handsome Texan with a head for business—and
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Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the Alaska mountains practicing the ways of her people. Clay Selby wants to be like his missionary father and work for the native people. Arriving in Alaska to set up a church and school among the Athabascans, Clay is totally focused ... until he meets Lizzie with the striking blue eyes. But she's clearly not part of the tribe. Must Clay choose between his ministry and...
16) Prairie lotus
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730L
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In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
17) The obsession
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After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
18) The way of love
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"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?"--
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially...
19) Indigo blue
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(Adeline Catherine)Comanche volume 3
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Orphaned after her parents were killed by Comanches, Loretta Simpson still lives in terror that the warriors will return, her fear so powerful, she is no longer able to speak a word. Hunter of the Wolf believes that Loretta is a woman of ancient prophecy whom he must honor. But Loretta can only see him as the enemy who has kidnapped her, and she refuses to succumb to his control{u2014}or his touch. Despite the hatred between their peoples, Loretta...
20) The savage breed
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"Yakima Henry may be tougher than anyone else in the Arizona Territory-- as a half-white, half-Indian man, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Yakima raises in the process lands him in jail, but opportunity is about to spring him out. Wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his lovely wife, Ashley, have a proposition for Yakima. Cleve's...
