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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: A Jareau Family Wedding by Kimberly Brown
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeartbreak birthed a beautiful love story.When Jamison Jareau hired a nanny, he wasn't expecting to fall in love. The moment Aleviyah Sandifer entered his home, his world was forever changed. Try as he might, he just couldn't fight his attraction. Forced to finally confront his grief over losing his wife, Jamison found an unexpected happiness with Aleviyah... -
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In the Company of Strangers by Awais Khan
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLahore – a city of secretive glamour, whispering elites, and sordid affairs. A city brought to its knees by terrorism. Forty one-year old Mona has almost everything: money, friends, social status… everything except for freedom in the repressed Pakistani society. Languishing in her golden cage, she craves a sense of belonging… of love...Categorized as:
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![Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley]()
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPerry Firekeeper-Birch was ready for her Summer of Slack but instead, after a fender bender that was entirely not her fault, she’s stuck working to pay back her Auntie Daunis for repairs to the Jeep.Thankfully she has the other outcasts of the summer program, Team Misfit Toys, and even her twin sister Pauline... -
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Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIntroducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola’s dazzling debut novel, full of passion, humor, and heart, that centers on a young Black British woman who has no interest in love and unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a fake relationship with the man she warned her girls about.Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together.. -
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![Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldivar]()
Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldivar
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA queer YA coming-of-age set during the rigged Honduran presidential election, about a young poet discovering the courage it takes to speak her truth about the people and country she loves.As the contentious 2017 presidential election looms and protests rage across every corner of the city, life in Tegucigalpa, Honduras churns louder and faster...Categorized as:
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![Because by Mo Willems]()
Because by Mo Willems
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMo Willems, a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, composes a powerful symphony of chance, discovery, persistence, and magic in this moving tale of a young girl's journey to center stage. Illustrator Amber Ren brings Willems' music to life, conducting a stunning picture-book debut... -
![All My Mothers by Joanna Glen]()
All My Mothers by Joanna Glen
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of one girl’s journey to find her birth mother, and her realisation that mothers – and family – can be discovered in the most unexpected of places…London, 1980s. Though she has a comfortable, privileged life, Eva Martínez-Green is deeply unhappy...Categorized as:
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![Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah]()
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in literary fiction...Categorized as:
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![Today. Tomorrow. Always by Raven St. Pierre]()
Today. Tomorrow. Always by Raven St. Pierre
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvents and decisions of the past almost cost her everything, but she was given a second chance. He marvels at the beautiful life he almost missed out on, vowing never to let anything come between them again. The memory of being apart lingers with both Sam and AJ, but those days are long gone... -
![Kitty-Kitty, Bang-Bang: A Novel by Cairo]()
Kitty-Kitty, Bang-Bang: A Novel by Cairo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith murder, mayhem and hot sex, Kitty-Kitty, Bang-Bang is a wickedly delicious sequel to The Kat Trap. It was her cutthroat ambition and ruthlessness that got Katrina—or Kat for short, out of the hood and on top of her game. Once a murderer on a seductive prowl with two missions in mind—satisfying her insatiable libido and killing unsuspecting marks—Katrina has lain down her guns... -
![Everything is Love by Aubreé Pynn]()
Everything is Love by Aubreé Pynn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDakari Summers has returned home after two years of attempting to heal from an unexpected betrayal. With his new contract, new team, and reconnection with his college friends, he has made a vow to himself – to never fall in love again. But life back home has different plans for him and they’re going to shake his core... -
![Happy Hour Hoe by Shae Sanders]()
Happy Hour Hoe by Shae Sanders
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAccording to office gossip, Cairo King has bagged every single woman in his department. A couple of married ones, too. The man is so legendary, the employees at Billingsley-Davis have dubbed him the "happy hour hoe." So when Taylor Knowles is unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend, her coworkers take her for drinks after work and point her right in Cairo's direction...Categorized as:
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Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams. From the award-winning poet and author of HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY.Bad girl. No matter how hard Samira tries, she can’t shake her reputation...Categorized as:
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![Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi]()
Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsElegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in circumstances that push them to the emotional brink.Saeed Teebi’s intense, engrossing stories plunge into the lives of characters grappling with their experiences as Palestinian immigrants to Canada...Categorized as:
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![Grown Women by Sarai Johnson]()
Grown Women by Sarai Johnson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves. Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte, and Charlotte’s optimistic daughter Corinna see the world very differently...Categorized as:
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![Correspondents by Tim Murphy]()
Correspondents by Tim Murphy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe world is Rita Khoury's oyster. The bright and driven daughter of a Boston-area Irish-Arab family that has risen over the generations from poor immigrants to part of the coastal elite, Rita grows up in a 1980s cultural mishmash...Categorized as:
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![Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen]()
Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then again, who was I to speak of such things When Gozie and Obianuju meet in August 1978, it is nothing short of fate. He is the perfect man: charismatic, handsome, Christian, and – most importantly – Igbo...Categorized as:
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![Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel]()
Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRenu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She can't stop wondering if, thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life... -
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Frankie by Graham Norton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters... -
![A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley]()
A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life’s toughest situations" ( The Florida Times-Union ), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed... -
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Daddy Long Stroke by Cairo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDramatic, bold and racy, Daddy Long Stroke uncovers the shocking and painful reality of some men’s belief systems about women and sex. Cairo offers readers a voyeuristic look into the mind of a womanizer who manipulates and seduces women by using what he’s got—good looks, chiseled physique, charisma, and sexual prowess—to get what he wants without remorse, or regret... -
![Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi]()
Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThousand Star Hotel confronts the silence around racism, police brutality, and the invisibility of the Asian American urban poor.From “with thanks to Sahra Nguyen for the refugee style slogan”:They give the kids candy to bet.My daughter loses the first four rounds,she’s a quiet wire as they take her candy away, piece by piece.When she finally wins, I ask if she wants to play again...Categorized as:
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![The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah]()
The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFiction. African Studies. THE HEALERS tells a story of the conflict and regeneration focused on replacing toxic ignorance with the healing knowledge of African unity...Categorized as:
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![No Weapon Formed by Michelle Stimpson]()
No Weapon Formed by Michelle Stimpson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this sequel to Michelle Stimpson’s beloved debut novel, Boaz Brown, LaShondra and her Boaz, Stelson, are living the ideal American lifestyle, except for the subtle and not-so-subtle ways society keeps reminding them that they aren’t the norm. She’s African-American, he’s Caucasian, and their oldest child is already tackling the question of identity... -
![No Honour by Awais Khan]()
No Honour by Awais Khan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost… In sixteen-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by, and her family’s honour to protect... -
![Undescribable Box Set by Shantel Tessier]()
Undescribable Box Set by Shantel Tessier
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**ON SALE FOR .99 CENTS UNTIL JAN 19TH. REGULAR PRICE WILL BE 5.99** The Undescribable Box Set is three books in one. Undescribable, Unbearable and Uncontrollable. Burned by her past, Samantha begins to build a new life for herself. Focusing on her new friends and rebuilding her broken life, Samantha is content...Categorized as:
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![Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh]()
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMoonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, set in post-military Nigeria and culminating in the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014.Obiefuna has always been the black sheep of his family—sensitive where his father, Anozie, is pragmatic, a dancer where his brother, Ekene, is a natural athlete...Categorized as:
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![Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer]()
Girl Unmoored by Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThirteen-year-old Apron Bramhall begins a summer job at her new friend Mike and his boyfriend Chad's flower shop, but she soon learns a secret about Chad that threatens to turn her peaceful world upside down...Categorized as:
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![A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle]()
A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire is her best friend, also a girl. It's the kind of power that could implode a family, a friendship, a life...Categorized as:
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![The Water is Wide by Laura Vosika]()
The Water is Wide by Laura Vosika
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWorld-renowned musician Shawn Kleiner vanished in the night among the ruins of a Scottish castle. While the world searches, one woman, the mother of his child, knows the truth: he is trapped seven hundred years in the past. While they struggle to reunite across the centuries, an unseen shadow crosses their path--an evil that will threaten the life of a child prophesied to protect history...Categorized as:
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![Just One More by Jodie Slaughter]()
Just One More by Jodie Slaughter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTattoo artist Whitney Harris loves Valentine’s Day. The bright colors, giant hearts, and sugary sweet coating that seems to cover the world on February 14th make her feel all kinds of warm and fuzzy inside. She may be more festive than the average person, but her plans for her long weekend off are pretty tame... -
![Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall]()
Letting Loose the Hounds by Brady Udall
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere are eleven big-hearted tales by an inspired storyteller at the beginning of his career. Set in the small towns of Utah and Arizona, most of these stories deal with letting loose - or wanting to - in all its forms. For the family hero in "Buckeye the Elder, " this means reverting to a more raucous past...Categorized as:
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![The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore]()
The Healing Summer by Heather B. Moore
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSummer 1981 At the age of ninety-four, Maggie Howard’s final wish is to return to San Francisco and find out what happened to the young man who saved her life in 1906 after the disastrous earthquake and fires that devastated the city. They’d been trapped beneath a collapsed roof for hours, injured and unable to call for help...Categorized as:
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![Steeped in Murder by Kirsten Weiss, Sandra Murphy]()
Steeped in Murder by Kirsten Weiss, Sandra Murphy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTea, tarot, and trouble.Abigail’s dream of owning a tearoom in her California beach town is about to come true. She’s got the lease, the start-up funds, and the scone recipes. But she’s out of a tearoom and into hot water when her realtor turns out to be a conman… and then turns up dead.Not even death puts an end to the conman’s mischief. He rented the same space to a tarot reader, Hyperion... -
![We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan]()
We Are All Birds of Uganda by Hafsa Zayyan
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratings1960s Uganda. Hasan is struggling to run his family business following the sudden death of his wife. Just as he begins to see a way forward, a new regime seizes power, and a wave of rising prejudice threatens to sweep away everything he has built.Present-day London. Sameer, a young high-flying lawyer, senses an emptiness in what he thought was the life of his dreams...Categorized as:
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![My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal]()
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV and Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is young Leon.Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, a belly like Father Christmas, and mutters swearwords under her breath when she thinks can't hear...Categorized as:
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![Lessons by Ian McEwan]()
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Two thousand miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade...Categorized as:
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![Дни нашей жизни by Mikita Franko, Микита Франко]()
Дни нашей жизни by Mikita Franko, Микита Франко
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsВ детстве маленького Мики было всё, как у обычных детей: любимые герои, каши по утрам, дни рождения, скучные линейки в школе и сочинения на заданные темы. В юности взрослеющего Мики было всё, как у обычных подростков: первая драка, первое разочарование, первая любовь и первая нелюбовь. Но у Мики была одна тайна: его семья, которую никому нельзя показывать. Книга содержит нецензурную брань... -
![Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]()
Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his three adult children sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, they collide over clutter, debt, and a contentious family history...Categorized as:
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![Notes on: To Kill a Mocking Bird by Rosamund Metcalf]()
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![The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine]()
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman’s journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos islandMina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO...Categorized as:
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![Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski]()
Eddie's Bastard by William Kowalski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Eddie's Bastard" is William Amos Mann IV, known as Billy -- the son of a heroic pilot killed in Vietnam and an unknown woman. The last in a line of proud, individualistic Irish-American men, Billy is discovered in a basket at the door of the dilapidated mansion where his bitter, hard-drinking grandfather, Thomas Mann, has exiled himself... -
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Red Dog: True Blue: Blue Dog Movie Tie-In Edition by Louis de Bernières, Daniel Lapaine
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNow a major motion picture, the spellbinding story of a young boy and his dog adventuring through the outback.When a family tragedy means Mick is sent to the outback to live with his Granpa, it looks as if he has a lonely life ahead of him. The cattle station is a tough place for a child, where nature is brutal and the men must work hard in the heat and dust... -
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![The Girl Who Saw Lions by Berlie Doherty]()
The Girl Who Saw Lions by Berlie Doherty
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo girls, from very different places, are brought together in a tale of loss, courage and family.Abela has lost everything, and now she must leave her home in Tanzania and flee to Britain.Rosa's struggling to cope with her mum's wish to adopt a child...Categorized as:
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![Leila in Saffron by Rukhsanna Guidroz]()
Leila in Saffron by Rukhsanna Guidroz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA colorful journey of self-discovery and identity, this sweet, vibrant picture book follows young Leila as she visits her grandmother’s house for their weekly family dinner, and finds parts of herself and her heritage in the family, friends, and art around her... -
![Apple Of My Eye by Patrick Redmond]()
Apple Of My Eye by Patrick Redmond
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRonnie Sidney is perfect, his mother's little ray of sunshine. He can do no wrong, although sometimes he wants to, especially to people who look down on him and his mother, and their drab existence. And if bad things should happen to them - why, it's nothing to do with him. He's a good boy. Everybody says so.Susan Ramsey was once perfect too, cherished by her parents, a popular girl at school... -
![Small World by Ishta Mercurio]()
Small World by Ishta Mercurio
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Nanda is born, the whole of her world is the circle of her mother’s arms. But as she grows, the world grows too. It expands outward—from her family, to her friends, to the city, to the countryside. And as it expands, so does Nanda’s wonder in the underlying shapes and structures patterning it: cogs and wheels, fractals in snowflakes... -
![Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by Siobhan Curham]()
Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by Siobhan Curham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFourteen-year-old Stevie lives in Lewes with her beloved vinyl collection, her mum ... and her mum's depression. When Stevie's mum's disability benefits are cut, Stevie and her mother are plunged into a life of poverty. But irrepressible Stevie is determined not to be beaten and she takes inspiration from the lyrics of her father's 1980s record collection and dreams of a life as a musician...Categorized as:
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![The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg]()
The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHome is where your people are. But who are your people?Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964.Adelaide promises she'll return to Ethiopia and become part of the village for good...Categorized as:
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