Title:
Ceremony
Author:
Leslie Marmon Silko
Genres:
Native American Literature
Summary (from publisher):
Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Between the World and Me
Author:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genres:
African American Biography
Summary (from publisher):
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it?
Tea/Coffee:
Mocha using this medium dark roast and melting this chocolate in it
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Title:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Author:
Arundhati Roy
Genres:
Indian Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Jean Rhys
Genres:
Women’s fiction, Romance
Summary (from publisher):
This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.
Tea/Coffee:
Russian Caravan tea with milk
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Title:
Author:
Trevor Noah
Genres:
Biography
Summary (from publisher):
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. But he did exist—and from the beginning, the often-misbehaved Trevor used his keen smarts and humor to navigate a harsh life under a racist government.
Tea/Coffee:
Lemon Sage tea
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Title:
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
Genres:
LGBTQA+ Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
Tea/Coffee:
Lush – Medium Dark Roast with chocolate shavings
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Title:
The Bell Jar
Author:
Sylvia Plath
Genres:
YA
Summary (from publisher):
Esther Greenwood is a bright, beautiful, enormously talented young woman, but she’s slowly going under—maybe for the last time.
Tea/Coffee:
Viennese Coffee
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Title:
Passing
Author:
Nella Larson
Genres:
African American Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
A light-skinned Black woman, Irene Redfield, reconnects with her childhood friend Clare, who has married a white man and passed for white. Irene is drawn to Clare but also suspicious of her motives and actions, until Clare…
Tea/Coffee:
White Peony Tea
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Title:
A Long Way Gone
Author:
Ishmael Beah
Genres:
West African Biography
Summary (from publisher):
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
Tea/Coffee:
Iced Rooibos
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Title:
The Secret History
Author:
Donna Tart
Genres:
Psychological Suspense
Summary (from publisher):
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
Tea/Coffee:
Ethiopian Yirgacheffe
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Coffee, Tea, and Fiction, please 