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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Romiette and Julio	Sharon M. Draper	Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object t…	OL12497W
Too much of a good thing	J. J. Murray	From the acclaimed author of Something Real and Original Love comes a tender, witty, and sexy tale of two very different souls whose prayers are answered in surprising ways… When recently widowed Joe…	OL15111767W
Another gulmohar tree	Aamer Hussein	Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like himself, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship beg…	OL15112304W
Taking Care of Business	Brenda Jackson	From the moment she met Tag Elliott, Renee Williams thought of nothing but how his lips would feel on hers. That and darkened bedrooms and whispered promises. But as a member of Manhattan's wealthies…	OL15153603W
Sex and the Single Braddock	Robyn Amos	As Senator Braddock's only daughter Shondra Braddock seemed to have it all: brains, beauty and the bank account of an heiress. But she didn't have answers. Determined to discover the connection betwe…	OL15170891W
Checkered fences	Alma Hudson	It's the late 1970s in California, a time of racial turbulence. Diane Jones, an African-American 18-year-old honors student, takes a job as a nanny to a prestigious white family, Jerry and Ann Shaw, …	OL17742275W
Have no shame	Melissa Foster	Alison Tillman has called Forrest Town, Arkansas home for the past eighteen years. The division of life between the whites and the blacks is all Alison knows. The winter of 1967, just a few months be…	OL17869551W
Different worlds	Janet Bode	Discusses the complex issues involved in interracial and cross-cultural dating among teenagers, including parental reactions, peer pressure, and psychological motivations.	OL19197566W
Loving	Sheryll Cashin	Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation,…	OL19711809W
No ordinary love	J. J. Murray	Nurse Trina Woods never really expected to make the reality-show cut for "Rich Man, Lucky Lady". She's used to losing in love, and past believing in fairy tales. So she's sure the handsome plain-talk…	OL20019653W
Lives of Our Own	Lorri Hewett	After her wealthy parents divorce, Shawna returns with her father to the small Georgia town where he grew up, and there she experiences new attitudes toward race relations, learns something shocking …	OL2010382W
Frontier	Susan K. Salzer	Reeling from the sudden death of his wife, Daniel Dixon returns to Wyoming's Powder River country to start anew. It's the end of the nineteenth century and the Indians are gone. The growing city of B…	OL20377851W
Trespass	Valerie Martin	Chloe Dale's life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades…	OL21587674W
Having the tycoon's baby	Tasha Blue	Alayna is a strong, career driven business woman. She has worked hard to get where she has and is the most valuable asset within her Manhattan based company. However, fate delivers Alayna a cruel blo…	OL24425012W
His one and only	Theodora Taylor	Fifteen years ago, Josie Witherspoon vowed to leave Alabama and never again think of Beau Prescott, the rich high school quarterback who broke her heart. But now after a failed marriage, she is back …	OL26434026W
Mr. & Mrs. Kane	Lena Skye	All 3 books from the Mr & Mrs Kane trilogy are together for the first time. It turns out that getting married was only the beginning for the world's most popular interracial couple. Young billionaire…	OL28176230W
A whisper to a scream	Elissa Gabrielle	Queen Thomas is a young African American defense attorney passionately advocating justice for her brown-skinned clients. Enter Quincy Hughes, a handsome doctor who begins a relentless pursuit of Quee…	OL29232145W
Hairspray	Tracey West	It’s 1962 and Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion—to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program The Corny Collins Show and, o…	OL803704W
I'm Your Girl	J. J. Murray	For public library clerk Diane Anderson, reading romance novels and living vicariously is far easier than attracting a flesh-and-blood man of her own. It seems she's too voluptuous in the wrong place…	OL8488703W
If You Come Softly	Jacqueline Woodson	After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in l…	OL85372W