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Ã2013., Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--Provided by publisher.
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[2016]., Harper Perennial Call No: NL FANTASY F ERD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico, the seductive Indian woman who has stolen his heart, and takes her far from her native Montana plains to his own Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine the eventual ramifications his brazen act will entail. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has utterly mesmerized him--and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come. The Roy and Shawano families have been inextricably intertwined for generations and, unbeknownst to them, the mysterious Antelope Woman is a part of their fierce and haunting history. Antelope Woman ingeniously illuminates how that history affects the contemporary descendants of these families who are the products of two cultures, Ojibwe and white, which sit in uneasy relationship to one another. This remarkable updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich's 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new introductory note from the author."--pg. [4] of cover.
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2019., Berkley Call No: Romance Fic Jalaluddin Edition: Berkley trade edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Ayesha is a young, Muslim woman living in Canada with her family where she works as a substitute teacher in order to pay back her uncle who helped her immigrate to Canada and paid for her education. She's frustrated by her undeniable attraction to Khalid, a judgmental and conservative Muslim who seems stuck in another century. And when she learns Khalid is to be married to her cousin Hafsa, she looks into the unsettling rumors she's heard about his family and discovers things about Khalid and herself that surprise her.
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2020., Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books Call No: Realistic SC Dan Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains eight short stories set against the Haitian diaspora including Miami, New York, and Haiti, and focus on family, community, and love.
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2017., Riverhead Books Call No: ROMANCE FIC HAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it explodes, turning familiar streets into a patchwork of checkpoints and bomb blasts, they begin to hear whispers about doors--doors that can whisk people far away, if perilously and for a price. As violence and the threat of violence escalate, Nadia and Saeed decide that they no longer have a choice. Leaving their homeland and their old lives behind, they find a door and step through."--Provided by publisher.
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c2011., Pre-adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: 973 .0496073 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An introduction to African-American history from Revolutionary-era slavery up to the election of President Obama.
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By Joshi, Alka2021., Mira Call No: Historical Fic Joshi Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: After escaping from an arranged and abusive marriage, Lakshmi makes her way from her rural village to Jaipur where she becomes a henna artist to the wealthy women of the upper class and never reveals her secrets. Years later, she's startled to find that her estranged husband has tracked her down and brought with him a sister that she never knew she had. As Lakshmi tries to keep her past secret to protect her way of life, she tries to better the lives of those around her.
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2014., Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Historical Fiction Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the aftermath of the war in Sierra Leone, a village comes together to regain the beauty of life as it was in the past"--Provided by publisher.
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[2018]., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL F MOR Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion. Risking his own life, he uses his privileged position to exchange jewels and money from murdered Jews for food to keep his fellow prisoners alive. One day in July 1942, Lale, prisoner 32407, comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her. A vivid, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful re-creation of Lale Sokolov's experiences as the man who tattooed the arms of thousands of prisoners with what would become one of the most potent symbols of the Holocaust, The Tattooist of Auschwitz is also a testament to the endurance of love and humanity under the darkest possible conditions"--
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[2017]., Viking Call No: Historical FIC HUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: ""Reading Georgia Hunter's We Were the Lucky Ones is like being swung heart first into history. A brave and mesmerizing debut, and a truly tremendous accomplishment."--Paula McLain, New York Timesbestselling author of The Paris Wife. An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who scatter at the start of the Second World War, determined to survive, and to reunite. It is the spring of 1939, and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows ever closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships facing Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurc family will be flung to the far corners of the earth, each desperately trying to chart his or her own path toward safety. As one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death by working endless hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. Driven by an extraordinary will to survive and by the fear that they may never see each other again, the Kurcs must rely on hope, ingenuity, and inner strength to persevere. In a novel of breathtaking sweep and scope that spans five continents and six years and transports readers from the jazz clubs of Paris to the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to Krakow's most brutal prison and the farthest reaches of the Siberian gulag, We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the capacity of the human spirit to endure in the face of the twentieth century's darkest moment"--
