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2) In the fall
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English
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An interracial relationship between a Union soldier from Vermont and a runaway slave at the end of the Civil War initiates a haunting family legacy of war, racism, and secrets that follows three generations from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
8 compact discs (ca. 9 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Entrenched on the same land since the early 1800s, the Howlands have, for seven generations, been pillars of their southern community. Extraordinary family lore has been passed down to Abigail Howland, but not all of it. When shocking facts come to light about her late grandfather William's relationship with Margaret Carmichael, a black housekeeper, the community is outraged, and quickly gathers to vent its fury on Abigail. Alone in the house the...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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"Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from "civilized" society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures--May's brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the Civil...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress—one of her own colleagues at a prestigious San Francisco law firm. Acting on impulse—or is it grief? rage? Probably all three—Ellie cashes in Ian’s life insurance policy for an extended stay at the luxurious Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes, France. Accompanying her is her free-spirited best friend, Mable Chou.
Ellie hopes that...
8) Native guard
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
51 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of poetry addresses the complex history of the American South, offering a lyrical tribute to the Native Guard, one of the first black regiments in service during the Civil War and paying tribute to the author's mother and her illegal interracial marriage.
9) Loving
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed, all our possessions burned, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to death on a godforsaken march across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone...." So...
11) Saga: Volume two
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
464 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
""Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents. Collects SAGA #7-12""--Publisher's website.
12) White teeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
13) Othello
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Presents a guide to Shakespeare's "Othello", including text and audio from various productions and preformances that provide a context for the play and it characters.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
464 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
At long last, it's finally time for the third massive hardcover collection of SAGA, the critically acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy series from the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist Fiona Staples and writer Brian K. Vaughan. Collecting 18 of the most shocking and impactful issues fromthe epic tale of Hazel and her star-crossed parents, this deluxe edition features a striking, all-new original cover from Fiona Staples, as well as exclusive, never-before-seen...
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of white liberal parents brings home her fiance, a distinguished black doctor. Both sets of parents are shocked in spite of themselves and must confront their true feelings about race.
16) Into the West
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Two kids receive a gift beyond their wildest dreams - a magical horse. But when a rich breeder tries desperately to take the horse away from them, their only hope is to escape and become the coolest outlaws ever to ride...INTO THE WEST!
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
504 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Saga is the story of Hazel, a child born to star-crossed parents from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war. Now, Hazel's fugitive family must risk everything to find a peaceful future in a harsh universe that values destruction over creation."
Author
Series
One thousand White women trilogy volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
19) A united kingdom
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
Author
Publisher
Findaway
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Wonderbook edition].
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each believing that their hue is the best, the three primary colors live in separate parts of the city until Yellow and Blue meet, fall in love, and decide to mix.
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