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2) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It is 1962, and these three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step that forever changes a town and the way women --mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends -- view one another"--Cover, P....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years. This poetic, graceful love story, rooted in Black folk traditions and steeped in mythic realism, celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....
Author
Publisher
Agate
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in the Freedom Summer of 1964, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred only a few years earlier. As the long, hot summer unfolds, Celeste befriends several members of the community, but there are also those who are threatened by her and the change that her presence...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The author of New York Times best-selling novels, Mary Monroe is especially adept at capturing the tumultuous highs and lows of the unforgettable characters who populate her books. In She Had It Coming, it's the best of times and the worst of times for Dolores Reese, who's married to two different men in two different cities.
8) Sycamore Row
Author
Series
Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
The suspense never rests when A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the good fight once again. Often named an all-time favorite by John Grisham's legions of fans, the book that started it all gets a brand-new chapter. America's favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of Clanton apart.
Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying...
9) By the book
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript.
10) Selling my soul
Author
Publisher
Urban Christian
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sex scandal rocks megachurch!
Returning from a two-year mission trip in Mozambique, Trina Michaels plans to ignore the sensational headline that screams from the front page of the Washington Times. Her heart is still in Africa, the place that feels more like home than anywhere she's ever lived-and the place where the love of her life still is.
Her dream of a quick return to Mozambique fades within hours when Trina discovers that her mother has been...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer of 1964 in rural South Carolina, a young girl is given a home by three black, beekeeping sisters. As she enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, she discovers a place where she can find the single thing her heart longs for most.
12) Lost daughters
Author
Series
Mama Ruby novels volume 3
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When her new husband Mel and her daughter Lorretta, an aspiring model, run off together, claiming they are in love, Maureen Montgomery must confront her tragic past to find the strength to overcome this devastating betrayal and make a new life for herself that is all her own.
Author
Series
Jubilant soul novels volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Life has always gone Indigo Burns's way. She's smart, pretty, and talented, and she knows exactly what she wants. A photography internship at her hometown's local newspaper is the next step in her well-laid plans for her future. But her long-term goals are put to the test when her boyfriend Brian proposes--two years before he's supposed to and in front of all the guests at her college graduation party. Too concerned about his feelings to say no, she...
14) Never say never
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Music, suspense, and some steam up the windows scenes make this a wonderful book for lovers of Mature YA/New Adult books - Book Loving Mom "If you want to change up what you usually read or you like contemporary romance with a kick I dare you to read this book. I promise you won't regret it." - The Haunted Rose YA - Mature/New Adult What girl wouldn't want to be surrounded by the sexy guys from the hottest teen rock sensation in the country? 18-year-old...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
17) God ain't blind
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a crash diet and a makeover fail to get the attention of her husband, Annette shacks up with Louis and goes on a spending spree, until she discovers a terrible secret about Louis and turns to her friend, Rhoda, for help.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Following the Civil War, former slave Mariah Reddick has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee, but when her ambitious, politically-minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah finds her world once more breaking apart.
20) The inheritance
Author
Series
Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire-just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there's no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
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