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Published Feb 2017
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by Ayana Mathis
Published Oct 2013
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by Jonathan Odell
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsThe pre-Civil War South comes brilliantly to life in this masterfully written novel about a mysterious and charismatic healer readers won't soon forget.
by Brooke Newman
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsThe true story of an extraordinary friendship between a brilliant mathematician and an uneducated, illiterate African American maid from Alabama. Jenniemae & James is an inspiring, heartwarming memoir about friendship and love across the racial barrier.
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.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2010 Best Book Award
Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.
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