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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God has become one of the most important and enduring works of modern American literature. Written with Zora Neale Hurston’s singular wit and pathos, this Southern love story recounts Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny."
A tale of awakening and independence featuring a strong female protagonist...
3) Sycamore Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When wealthy Seth Hubbard hangs himself from a sycamore tree and leaves his fortune to his black maid, Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial -- a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of Great Migration-era mother Hattie Shepherd, who in spite of poverty and a dysfunctional husband uses love and Southern remedies to raise nine children and prepare them for the realities of a harsh world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake-until she forged a proud identity of her own. In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents...
7) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Struggling to recover after a natural pest invasion devastates the economy of 1924 South Carolina, three fierce Southern women unite against terrible injustices that have overshadowed their small-town community.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Torn between the fantasies of her youth and the realities of a life marked by violence and abandonment, August reunites with a beloved old friend who challenges her to reconcile her past and come to terms with the difficulties that forced her to grow up too quickly.
11) Promise
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Barely surviving an F5 tornado that rips through her 1936 Mississippi hometown, an African-American laundress and great-grandmother searches for her family among the catastrophe's survivors while bonding with the traumatized teen daughter of a despised white judge.
12) Remembrance
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Volunteering at a soup kitchen during the Christmas season to navigate midlife doubts, Beatrice Powell finds unexpected comfort in a relationship with a homeless man, Charles Davenport, who was driven to a life on the streets after the devastating loss of his family.
13) A hope divided
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the revelation of a family secret threatens her freedom, Marlie Lynch and Ewan McCall, an escaped prisoner sheltering in her laboratory, are forced to flee into the night.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
314 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A former slave makes her way to Oregon Territory in the company of her immigrant husband and a white woman following her husband out west, while a Kalapuya Indian named Betsy's story unfolds in the land where their stories will intersect.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey that may or may not include a second chance at love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her "stand-in mother," a bold black woman named Rosaleen, insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens joins Rosaleen on a journey to Tiburon, South Carolina, where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.
Author
Language
English
Description
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join...