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| Joyce Carol Thomas - Marked by Fire |
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Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
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$8.00 - $13.00
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| Tato Laviera - Enclave |
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Winner of the 1981 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Laviera celebrates the Puerto Rican experience in New York providing a gallery of portraits of the indomitable inhabitants of the enclave, whose lives are evoked through soulful rhythmic songs. "Enclave serves as a very timely manife ...
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$7.00 - $7.00
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| Nicholasa Mohr - Felita |
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Felita's family just moved to a new neighborhood where all of the kids make fun of her because she's Mexican. Alone and unhappy, Felita doesn't know how she can overcome all of the prejudice around her. But somehow, she may rise above it all and realize that she is a special person.
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$5.99 - $5.99
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| Louis Owens - Nightland |
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A dead body and a suitcase with $58,000 fall from the sky and land at Billy Keene's feet. What to do? Keene and his hunting pal, Will Striker, decide to keep the money, leave the body, and skedaddle. But a helicopter quickly sights the pair--both of whom are half Cherokee--and begins shooting at the ...
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$9.95 - $9.95
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| Denise Giardina - The Unquiet Earth: A Novel |
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"A flawless, fearless, great American story. It cuts a wide path through the worst and the best of what we are."--BARBARA KINGSOLVER From the mining shanty towns of West Virginia comes this moving and passionate saga of a family, a community, and a way of life all but gone. In this coal-smudged plac ...
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$6.99 - $6.99
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