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41) Pride
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
42) The husbands
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too ... but why...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In New York City's Spanish Harlem, Julio and Maritza are each searching for a path that will give their lives meaning, even if it's shadowed by controversy. Julio is an arsonist for hire, pocketing thousands of dollars from investors eager to capitalize on more expensive real estate. But when he has reason to stop setting his neighborhood ablaze and vows to change his ways, Julio's employers threaten his life -- and the lives of those close to him....
45) The neighborhood
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"For most of the citizens of Hidden Refuge, it's an ordinary Friday night in an ordinary American town. But when men claiming to be police officers show up at their doorsteps in the middle of the night, ordering them to evacuate for their own safety, it's only the beginning of a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. Because, unbeknownst to most of its residents, Hidden Refuge contains something that very dangerous men want...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Sonnie Beverly draws on her experiences with African- American church groups to create realistic characters. In this debut novel, three black women from one neighborhood take different paths to better themselves. It's in her small Virginia hometown where Zakia experiences the success she's always wanted-and the change that threatens it. For her friend Nikki, this close-knit village inspires a new life where a younger man and unexpected conflicts test...
47) Deacon King Kong
Author
Language
English
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
True-Detective Mystery author Ben Newman has written about scores of murders, and thinks he has seen it all, until he is confronted with murders of adults from his childhood neighborhood. The first is his brother's wife, her body found floating in the family swimming pool. Suspicion immediately falls on Ben's brother, the good doctor. The death of a childhood friend turned pharmacist, and then a former flame of Ben's turns the investigation away from...
49) The haunted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Perry family moves to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district, they soon discover that something isn't right, and that "something" is ready to come out of the shadows of their basement and into their lives.
51) Baby Radar
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When her mother takes her out in her stroller, a toddler encounters a variety of things, people, and animals.
52) Barrio ghosts
Author
Publisher
New Readers Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"Five short stories set in an East Los Angeles barrio feature teenagers in supernatural situations." --
53) Legacy Lane
Author
Series
Hart's Crossing ; 1
Publisher
F. H. Revell
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams Appleseed
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This upbeat picture book--a companion to Ride, Roll, Run: Time for Fun!--follows the nine children from the first book as they help plan a big, musical block party. Author and educator Valerie Bolling's rhyming text makes for a rollicking read-aloud andfeatures instruments from all around the world including the agogAo, banjo, daegeum, djembe drums, double bass, erhu, maracas, piano, steel drums, and trumpet. Sabrena Khadija's stunning illustrations...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Tionna learned from her on-and-off addicted mother how to live by her wits. Now, forced to start over in the same neighborhood she swore she'd never go back to, with her on-again/off-again boyfriend and father of her two sons in jail and everything seized by the government, she rediscovers her old life and wonders if she's cut out to ba a prisoner's wife.
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