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"Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s. Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells...
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Elephant Room Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In 40 letters to a fictional 'missing' white sister, I'll help you understand why authentic crossracial friendships have been nearly impossible--and I'll give you the tools to put them within your reach."--Page [4] of cover.
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Amish of big sky country volume 2
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Zondervan
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English
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"When a wildfire forces her small Amish community to abandon their Montana homes, Christine Mast makes the decision not to move with her family to her father's childhood home in Kansas. On her own for the first time, Christine works at her uncle's store in St. Ignatius, a small Amish community on the Flathead Indian Reservation. There she meets Raymond Old Fox, and they form a friendship that stretches Christine's world beyond the tight boundaries...
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TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New York. As adults, Ray has found success while Scotty struggles, but both seek love, comfort, and a place in the world"--
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Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother's death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers...
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InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"How diverse are your friendships? In a time when cultural divides are expanding, we can learn to see every human from God's perspective instead of through the lenses of prejudice and bias. Through vivid stories from several countries, MelindaJoy Mingo models reaching across cultures, showing the beauty of diverse friendships"--
8) That flag
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Bianca is Keira’s best friend. At school, they are inseparable. But Keira questions their friendship when she learns more about the meaning of the Confederate flag hanging from Bianca’s front porch. Will the two friends be able to overlook their distinct understandings of the flag? Or will they reckon with the flag’s effect on yesterday and today? In That Flag, Tameka Fryer Brown and Nikkolas Smith graciously tackle the issues of racism, the...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"First Friends includes the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, the man with whom Lincoln once shared a bed and who did more to help him emerge from his crippling depression than anyone else; Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who played a pivotal part in America's recognition of the state of Israel in 1948; and Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley, a...
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Every day with April and Mae volume 6
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When April plans a backyard sleepover, Mae isn't sure about sleeping in the tent. Together they make the space more comfortable and fall asleep to scary stories--
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). When they decide to help the new animal shelter with their own talents, Mae raises money to buy cat food with a lemonade stand and April writes a letter to the newspaper to encourage adoption"--
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"Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event--a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults, they remain as close as sisters, though their lives have taken different directions....
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Grijalbo Narrativa
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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"Jen y Riley son amigas desde la infancia y, aunque sus vidas tomaron caminos distintos, han logrado permanecer unidas como hermanas. Jen se casó muy joven y, tras varios años intentándolo, por fin se ha quedado embarazada. Riley, en cambio, siempre quiso ser periodista y en la actualidad está a un paso de convertirse en la primera presentadora negra del canal de noticias de Filadelfia, su ciudad natal. Sin embargo, este profundo vínculo se resquebraja...
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Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Convention doesn't carry much weight in Alder Creek. It doesn't in Amoris Westmore's family either. Daughter of a massage therapist and a pothead artist, inheritor of her grandmother's vinyl collection, and blissfully entering her senior year in high school, Amoris never wants to leave her progressive hometown. Why should she? Everything changes when Jamison Rush moves in next door. Jamison was Amoris's first crush, and their last goodbye still stings....
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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Set in the South Pacific and based on true events, this is a novel about war, gold, interracial friendship, and the emergence of a new nation. Growing up in Bougainville, an island archipelago in the South Pacific, Ishmael always wanted to be a soldier. The Crisis--a brutal civil war with Papua New Guinea ignited by the gargantuan Panguna Mine--gives him his chance. As the guerilla leader of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army, Ishmael secures a peace...
17) For Lamb
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb's mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb's brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north- if only he could curb...
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Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Food brings people together, but can it help heal the racial divide? At The Grey in Savannah, Georgia, a rising-star black woman chef and a food-obsessed white businessman are equal partners who're breaking barriers--one plate at a time. Black, White, and The Grey is a story about the mission, trials, and triumphs of two individuals who had little in common--except an obsession for great food--until they came together through an awakened determination...
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Hap and Leonard the early years volume 1
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A brand-new Hap and Leonard series collection chock full of Joe R. Lansdale's inimitable blend of humor, mayhem, and insight, Of Mice and Minestrone delivers never-before-seen stories, a selection of the boys' favorite recipes, by Kasey Lansdale, and an introduction from New York Times bestselling crime author Kathleen Kent. Hap Collins looks like a good ol' boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is black, gay, and...
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