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Sankofa : a novel / by Onuzo, Chibundu,author.;
"When Anna, wondering who she really is, discovers that the African father she never knew is still alive, she embarks on a journey to a small nation in West Africa where she searches for her family's hidden roots"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Bambara (African people); Fathers and daughters; Identity (Psychology); Middle-aged women; Racially mixed people;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Whiteout : a novel / by Clayton, Dhonielle.; Jackson, Tiffany D.; Thomas, Angie.; Woodfolk, Ashley.; Yoon, Nicola.;
In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.LSC
Subjects: Christmas stories.; Love stories.; Teenagers; African Americans; Apologies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Room : a novel / by Donoghue, Emma,1969-;
Jack and Ma live in a locked room that measures eleven foot by eleven, where she has been kept a prisoner for seven years. When Jack turns five, he starts to ask questions, and his mother tells him about the world outside. Told entirely in Jack's voice, this story is a celebration of resilience and the love between parent and child.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Boys; Escapes; Kidnapping; Mother and child; Psychopaths;
© c2010., HarperCollins Publishers,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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2054 : a novel / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.; Stavridis, James,author.;
This second entry in the 'Admiral James Stavridis' series is an explosive work of speculative fiction set 20 years further in the future, at a moment when a radical leap forward in artificial intelligence combines with America's violent partisan divide to create an existential threat to the country -- and the world.
Subjects: War fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Cyberspace operations (Military science); Civil war;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Poison [sound recording] : a novel / by Lescroart, John T.,author.; Roy, Jacques,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Jacques Roy.After the owner of a successful family business is murdered, attorney Dismas Hardy, who doubts the guilt of the chief suspect, navigates the dangerous secrets and gold-digger agendas to identify the killer.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Legal fiction (Literature); Family secrets; Family-owned business enterprises; Hardy, Dismas (Fictitious character); Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Julia : a novel / by Newman, Sandra,1965-author.; adaptation of (work):Orwell, George,1903-1950.Nineteen eighty-four.;
In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Dystopias; Mechanics (Persons); Totalitarianism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gliff : a novel / by Smith, Ali,author.;
"From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing. Gliff explores how and why we endeavor to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data--something easily categorizable and predictable--Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever."--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Children; Disappeared persons; Electronic surveillance; Government, Resistance to; Human-animal relationships; Identity (Psychology); Outcasts; Siblings; Technology and state; Totalitarianism; Xenophobia;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Inferno : a novel / by Brown, Dan,1964-;
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces ... Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante's dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust ... before the world is irrevocably altered.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.; Cryptographers; Langdon, Robert (Fictitious character);
© c2013., Doubleday,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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Dominion : A Novel. by Citchens, Addie E.;
In this debut Southern family drama, Wonderboy is the son of Reverend Sabre Winfrey in Dominion, Mississippi. After an encounter with a stranger, Wonderboy is confronted by questions hed never imagined, and his response will send shockwaves through the entire community. Told from the point of view of the women who love these two men, 'Dominion' illustrates how we enable the everyday violence and casual sins of the patriarchy. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / General; FICTION / Southern; FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Centu; FICTION / World Literature / American / 21st Century;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Beheld : a novel / by Nesbit, TaraShea,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading, and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Murder; Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony); Puritans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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