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1) Swing Time
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English
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Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa
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English
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In Singapore, three very different women--Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned "trailing spouse" from the United States--find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva who brings their worlds crashing down
3) River Mumma
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English
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When the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover herself and what the river carries
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Series
Mead mishaps volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists, while others were of princesses trapped in towers guarded by fierce dragons. The pitiful princess would be stuck inside all day pining for her prince charming to come and rescue her. I always hated those stories. I couldn't imagine why the lazy thing didn't just get up and leave. Ironic since I was now stuck in that...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cegage company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, but Tobias Wikström thinks she's selfish for asking him to give up his life in Sweden. As things begin to challenge her relationship with Tobias, someone else moves back into the picture. Looking into divorce in Sweden isn't what Brittany-Rae von Lundin anticipated. Brittany gave up on her career and came with nothing in Jonny's kingdom. Having had a child with him, her greatest fear for Maya includes...
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles, nearly naked and with no memory of how she got there or where she's from, only a fleeting sense that this isn't the first time she's found herself in similar circumstances. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She'll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times,...
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English
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"Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society"--
In 1810 Louise is crowned queen as her husband begins his reign over the first and only free Black nation in the Western Hemisphere....
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The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of her time in the care of loved ones, listening to their...
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Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical epic about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: of warrior-kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen. That saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely...
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