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Call your daughter home / by Spera, Deb,author.;
It's 1924 South Carolina and the region is still recovering from the infamous boll weevil infestation that devastated the land and the economy. Gertrude, a mother of four, must make an unconscionable decision to save her daughters from starvation or die at the hands of an abusive husband. Retta is navigating a harsh world as a first-generation freed slave, still employed by the Coles, influential plantation proprietors who once owned her family. Annie is the matriarch of the Coles family and must come to terms with the terrible truth that has ripped her family apart. These three women seemingly have nothing in common, yet as they unite to stand up to the terrible injustices that have long plagued the small town, they find strength in the bond that ties women together.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; African American women; Motherhood; Domestic relations;
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The Christmas pearl / by Frank, Dorothea Benton;
Subjects: African American women domestics; Older women; Christmas stories; Domestic fiction; Ghost stories;
© c2007., William Morrow,
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Luster / by Leilani, Raven,author.;
"Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage. Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly, figuring her way into life as an artist. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and falling into Eric's family life, his home. She becomes a hesitant friend to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie is the only black woman who young Akila knows. Razor sharp, darkly comic, sexually charged, socially disruptive, Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way."--
Subjects: Novels.; Novels.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Young women; African American women artists; Adopted children; Domestic fiction.;
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Summer on Highland Beach : a novel / by Hostin, Sunny,author.; Harris, Sharina,author.;
"The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating third novel of her New York Times bestselling Summer series"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African American families; African American women; Family secrets; Self-realization in women; Summer;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Black girls must die exhausted : a novel / by Allen, Jayne,1978-author.;
After learning she might not be able to have children, thirty-three-year-old Tabitha Walker, a black woman planning to "have it all," watches her dreams dissolve and must rely on her two best friends to get through.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women journalists; African American women; Female friendship; Infertility;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Summer on Sag Harbor : a novel / by Hostin, Sunny,author.; Harris, Sharina,author.;
When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African American women; African Americans; Fathers; Friendship; Real estate development; Vacation homes;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Black candle women : a novel / by Brown, Diane Marie,author.;
Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African American women; Families; Vodou;
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Red Island House : a novel / by Lee, Andrea,1953-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Gorgeously evocative, Red Island House follows two decades in the life of Shay, an African-American professor whose husband Senna, a brash and wealthy Italian businessman, builds her a dream house in Madagascar"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women; Married people; Culture conflict;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Summer on Highland Beach [text (large print)] : a novel / by Hostin, Sunny,author.; Harris, Sharina,author.;
"The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in the captivating third novel of her New York Times bestselling Summer series"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; African American families; African American women; Family secrets; Self-realization in women; Summer;
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The kindest lie : a novel / by Johnson, Nancy,author.;
Needing to reconnect with the baby she gave up for adoption years earlier, an Ivy League-educated Black engineer uncovers devastating family secrets before her bond with a young white misfit scandalizes her racially torn community.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women; Race relations; Racism; Family secrets; Motherhood;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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