Title:
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Author:
Emily M. Danforth
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
When Cameron Post’s parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Relief they’ll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.But that relief doesn’t last, and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Half of a Yellow Sun
Author:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Genres:
African fiction, War fiction
Summary (from publisher):
A seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The House on Mango Street
Author:
Sandra Cisneros
Genres:
Latino fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Giovanni’s Room
Author:
James Baldwin
Genres:
LGBTQ+ fiction, Black American fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality.
Tea/Coffee:
Latte using Aviator
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Title:
Author:
Daniel Woodrell
Genres:
American Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Ree Dolly’s father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn’t show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive.
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Title:
Persepolis
Author:
Genres:
Biography, Graphic Novel
Summary (from publisher):
In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the coming-of-age story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Tayari Jones
Genres:
African American Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
This stirring love story is a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three people who are at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control. An American Marriage is a masterpiece of storytelling, an intimate look deep into the souls of people who must reckon with the past while moving forward—with hope and pain—into the future.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Jeffrey Eugenides
Genres:
Historical Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
“I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974…”
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The Black Flamingo
Author:
Dean Atta
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Fiction, Teen Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
As he gets older, Michael’s coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs—and the Black Flamingo is born.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The House of the Spirits
Author:
Isabel Allende
Genres:
Latin American Fiction, Magic Realism
Summary (from publisher):
One of the most important novels of the twentieth century, The House of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of love, magic, and fate.
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Coffee, Tea, and Fiction, please 