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A Novel
by Andrea Levy
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Published Jun 2017
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Published Jun 2016
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by Kathy Hepinstall
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsIn the midst of the American Civil War, a southern plantation owner's wife is arrested by her husband and declared insane for interfering with his slaves. She is sent to an island mental asylum to come to terms with her wrongdoing, but instead finds love and escape with a war-haunted Confederate soldier.
by Toni Morrison
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsA powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prizewinning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsThings have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations.
by Judith Lindbergh
Published Dec 2006
Read ReviewsSet in Viking Greenland in AD 985, this dramatic historical novel focuses on the intertwined lives of three women straddling the pagan past and Christian future
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsA spectacular novel as grand as a western sunset, the story of a girl coming to terms with her destiny, with the miraculous, and with the power of faith. It is the tale of a father discovering what true love is and a daughter recognizing that sometimes true love requires true sacrifice.
by Lily Tuck
Published Dec 2004
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by Edwidge Danticat
Published May 1998
Read ReviewsA passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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