Title:
Author:
Chinua Achebe
Genres:
African Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political and religious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
Tea/Coffee:
Jebena Blend coffee
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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:
Author:
Maaza Mengiste
Genres:
African Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Set during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical record.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Roxane Gay
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
The Vagina Monologues
Author:
Eve Ensler
Genres:
General Literature
Summary (from publisher):
…explores consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences, body image, genital mutilation, direct and indirect encounters with reproduction, vaginal care, menstrual periods, prostitution, and several other topics through the eyes of women with various ages, races, sexualities, and other differences.
Tea/Coffee:
Dong Quai tea
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Title:
Author:
Elizabeth Acevedo
Genres:
Teen Fiction
Summary (from publisher):
In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.
Separated by distance—and Papi’s secrets—the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.
And then, when it seems like they’ve lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
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:
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.
Tea/Coffee:
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Coffee, Tea, and Fiction, please 