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.
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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.
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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:
Milk and Honey
Author:
Rupi Kaur
Genres:
Poetry
Summary (from publisher):
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache.
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Title:
Author:
Sang Young Park
Genres:
Korean Fiction, LGBTQ+ Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Young is a cynical yet fun-loving Korean student who pinballs from home to class to the beds of recent Tinder matches. He and Jaehee, his female best friend and roommate, frequent nearby bars where they push away their anxieties about their love lives, families, and money with rounds of soju and ice-cold Marlboro Reds that they keep in their freezer. Yet over time, even Jaehee leaves Young to settle down, leaving him alone to care for his ailing mother and to find companionship in his relationships with a series of men, including one whose handsomeness is matched by his coldness, and another who might end up being the great love of his life.
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Title:
Author:
Jacqueline Woodson
Genres:
Biography, African American Biography, Poetry
Summary (from publisher):
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
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Title:
Author:
Louise Erdich
Genres:
Native American Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians.
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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.
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Title:
Author:
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genres:
Kids Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
At Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies, young Sara Crewe enjoys the friendship of her classmates and the staff—much to stern Miss Minchin’s disdain. When Sara is unexpectedly impoverished, she is forced to become a servant under Miss Minchin’s control. To escape her dreary life, Sara imagines herself as a princess, and her experiences soon teach her that being a princess on the inside counts more than any outward expression of royalty.
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