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“Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey, is a Black community with a variety of classes and creeds. When plans for a new highway are routed past a nearby…
“A spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey…
“Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an old friend, he traces clues back to the…
“There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a ‘secret for life, the one to die with.’ But he realizes that if he is to acknowledge and claim his daughter the…
“This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. The book is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the…
“Rosa Guy’s novel follows Wade Williams, a brilliant young black man who wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. Throughout Guy’s engrossing story,…
“In Palestine’s Children, each story involves a child—a child who is victimized by political events and circumstances, but who nevertheless participates in the struggle toward a…
“Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the…
“In Waiting, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author Ha Jin draws on his intimate knowledge of contemporary China to create a novel of unexpected richness and feeling. This is the…
“‘They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.’ So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles…