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by Kathryn Stockett
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends view one another. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
by James McBride
Published Jan 2009
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by Shari Goldhagen
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsA finely nuanced, universally resonant portrait of the ties, however strange or awkward, that bind two brothers and their families together through the decades.
by Carol Shields
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsA harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing.
by Pearl Cleage
Published Jul 2002
Read ReviewsCleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.
By The Light of My Father's Smile
by Alice Walker
Published Aug 1999
Read ReviewsExplores the richness and coherence of alternative culture, experience of sexuality as a celebration of life, of trust in Nature and the Spirit.
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