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The Time of Our Singing The Time of Our Singing Richard Powers "On Easter Day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a concer… OL138005W
South street South street William Gardner Smith "Philadelphia's South Street provides the scene for a novel which has for a subject the inter-racial contacts and strains that were the meat of Mr. Smith's Last of the Conquerors (Reviewed on p. 269,… OL141590W
No time like the present No time like the present Nadine Gordimer "Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa. They have a daughter, Sindiswa; they move to the suburbs; Steve becomes a… OL16667125W
Everything I never told you Everything I never told you Celeste Ng "Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marily… OL17295077W
Keeping secrets & telling lies Keeping secrets & telling lies Trice Hickman Atlanta power couple Victoria and Ted's seemingly happy life begins to unravel after decades-old secrets come back to haunt them. OL17682542W
Plays (Antony and Cleopatra / Othello / Romeo and Juliet) Plays (Antony and Cleopatra / Othello / Romeo and Juliet) William Shakespeare Contains: - Antony and Cleopatra - Othello - [Romeo and Juliet](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL362705W/Romeo_and_Juliet) OL17742141W
The trench angel The trench angel Michael Keenan Gutierrez "Colorado, 1919. Photographer Neal Stephens, home from the war, is blackmailed by the sheriff over his secret marriage to a black woman in France. When the sheriff is murdered and both Neal and his s… OL17885080W
Worlds beyond my control Worlds beyond my control Jane Lazarre pages cm OL1839482W
The pleasure seekers The pleasure seekers Tishani Doshi In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-… OL18588306W
The love wife The love wife Gish Jen From the highly praised author of Mona in the Promised Land and Who's Irish?--a generous, funny, explosive novel about the new "half-half" American family.Here is Carnegie Wong, second-generation Chi… OL1973670W
One thousand white women One thousand white women Jim Fergus When May Dodd journeys west into the unknown in 1874, it's a far better fate than the life she leaves behind. Committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for loving a man beneath her stati… OL19969245W
Monsoon summer Monsoon summer Julia Gregson "An epic love story moving from England to India, about the forbidden love between a young Indian doctor and an English midwife. Oxfordshire, 1947. Kit Smallwood, hiding a painful secret and exhauste… OL20035195W
Marrying Black girls for guys who aren't Black Marrying Black girls for guys who aren't Black Hagen Engler "White guy Hagen Engler had been married to his black wife for a couple of years before he realised he was still a racist! Marrying Black Girls for Guys Who Aren\2019t Black describes his journey fro… OL26191579W
My life as an Indian My life as an Indian James Willard Schultz “Reads like a romance . . . not the least interesting part being the traditions and old stories, retold with simplicity and real charm.” — Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: History (H.W. Wilson… OL2639897W
Looking beyond the mask Looking beyond the mask Nancy Brown Diggs "Looking Beyond the Mask focuses on the personal stories of the growing number of American women who - despite vast cultural differences, and sometimes because of them - are married to Japanese men. … OL2649627W
Yoshiko and the foreigner Yoshiko and the foreigner Mimi Otey Little In spite of her upbringing, a young Japanese woman begins seeing an American soldier and finds that he is not like the foreigners her parents have taught her to avoid. OL2950178W
Soul daddy Soul daddy Jacqueline Roy Life for fifteen-year-old Hannah, her twin sister Rosie, and their white mother changes drastically when her father, a black rock star, and his daughter by a second marriage move into their home in a… OL4104220W
The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society Kathryn Harrison In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shang… OL470973W
Langhorn and Mary Langhorn and Mary Priscilla Stone Sharp When you tell people that the story line of your book revolves around an African-American boy and a German-American girl who fall in love and elope, that they were married for thirty years, and that … OL5961143W
The house you pass on the way The house you pass on the way Jacqueline Woodson Thirteen-year-old Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been different--set apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anti-civil rights bomb… OL85371W
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