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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The Bewitching Grace The Bewitching Grace Jennifer Blake A young girl has been murdered, her body in perpetual slumber among the surrounding trees. The act seems random and unexplainable. Explain the dead lizard impaled on her pillow as a warning. Anne Tar… OL1893715W
American Street American Street Ibi Aanu Zoboi On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—the good life. But after leaving Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U… OL19671639W
The Red of His Shadow The Red of His Shadow Mayra Montero "It is Holy Week, and the Haitian sugar cane harvesters can temporarily forget their misery and lose themselves in the fervor of Voudon. But amidst the colorful festival, a struggle for power, as wel… OL1967705W
The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter) Laurell K. Hamilton From back cover Jove paperback October 2002: "THEY WERE TREATING ME LIKE I WAS A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON. At five-three I am not imposing. Raise the dead, kill a few vampires, and people start con… OL461933W
Folk beliefs of the southern Negro Folk beliefs of the southern Negro Newbell Niles Puckett Originally produced as for a Doctorate of Philosophy at Yale, this remarkable history of twenty or so years of Black life in the South is fascinating. Centering around folklore and superstition, it d… OL6440771W