Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island...
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Author: Robin, VickiSummary:
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Author: Stevenson, RobinSummary:
Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school, and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he...
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Author: Stevenson, RobinSummary:
It's an ordinary nightmare of a family trip until Theo realizes that the beautiful girl beside the hotel pool is his childhood babysitter, and his first crush. Theo hasn't seen Ronnie for five...
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Author: Kincaid, JamaicaSummary:
Lucy, a teenager from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis, Mariah, and their children. Yet, almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-...
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Author: Clair, MaxineSummary:
October Brown, an African-American teacher at a private school in Kansas, becomes pregnant by the father of a student and returns home to Ohio, where she and her sister were raised by their aunts...
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Author: Marshall, PauleSummary:
In 1949, jazz pianist Sonny-Rhett Payne leaves New York for Paris, where he will be free from racism and his family's disapproval of his music. Three decades later, Sonny's grandson comes to New...
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Author: Danticat, EdwidgeSummary:
In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer. Now an American and a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, he maintains a quiet life as a husband and...
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Author: James, MarlonSummary:
James presents a dramatic slave narrative set on a 19th-century Jamaican sugar plantation. Ever since she was a small child, Lilith has been closely watched by a contingent of fellow slaves--...
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Author: Larsen, NellaSummary:
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and...
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Author: Tademy, LalitaSummary:
Cane River is an epic novel about the strength and determination of four generations of African-American women whose journey from slavery to freedom begins on a Creole plantation in Louisiana.
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Author: Patton, StaceySummary:
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stacey Patton penned this moving memoir describing her tumultuous childhood growing up first in a state institution and then in a fractured foster family. She...
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Author: Roy, LucindaSummary:
Growing up in crowded south London, Jacinta knows she is unusual: neither black nor white. But when her father dies, and her mother breaks down, Jacinta loses the protection of her family's love...
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Author: Rosen, RenéeSummary:
With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.
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Author: Minot, SusanSummary:
Tells the story of two extraordinary young women: Esther, a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to commit unspeakable acts, and Jane, an American journalist...