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Under the Radar September 2024
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Grown women : a novel
by Sarai Johnson
Three generations of strong-willed Black women in rural Tennessee, bound by love and burdened by resentment and clashing personalities, find an unexpected chance for reconciliation when they reunite to raise a child. 50,000 first printing.
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Linh Ly is doing just fine : a novel
by Thao Votang
When her recently divorced mother starts dating, 27-year-old Linh Ly, following and spying on her mother's dates, finds her worry turning to obsession as she is forced to reconcile the image of her mother from her childhood with the woman she's getting to know as an adult.
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Long after we are gone : a novel
by Terah Shelton Harris
Told from alternating points of view from all four siblings, this emotional story about the power of family and letting go follows CeCe, Junior, Nance and Angeline, each fighting their own personal battles, as they return home to save their ancestral land—and themselves—after the death of their father.
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Masquerade
by O. O. Sangoyomi
Chosen to be the wife of a great warrior king, Òdòdó', a young Yorùbá woman, after a lifetime of subjugation, soars to the very heights of society where power and political savvy is too enticing to resist, but as tensions grow and betrayal runs rampar, she must defy her cruel husband even though she risks losing everything, including her life.
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Someone like us
by Dinaw Mengestu
With his marriage on the verge of collapse, journalist Mamush returns to his close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C., where a death in the family leads him on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he'd been told never to ask. Illustrations.
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State of paradise : a novel
by Laura Van den Berg
A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida's underbelly, from a reality-warping storyteller.
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Tell it to me singing : a novel
by Tita Ramâirez
A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery. A first novel.
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They dream in gold : a novel
by Mai Sennaar
In 1969, in the Swiss countryside, Mama Eva prepares for the opening of her Senegalese restaurant, while her pregnant daughter-in-law waits for news from Mansour, the father of her unborn child, as the people he left behind reckon with their memories of him, and the truth of his disappearance is revealed.
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A thousand times before
by Asha Thanki
This gripping family narrative spanning from the era of partition in India to contemporary Brooklyn follows the lives of three generations of women united by the echoes of their predecessors' experiences. their predecessors' experiences.
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Whoever you are, honey : a novel
by Olivia Gatwood
Finding refuge with her elderly roommate, Bethel, after a traumatic adolescence, Mitty, in a town taken over by the tech elite, forms a close friendship with her new neighbor Lena, who has her own secrets, which forces them to face their pasts, which have overpowered their lives for far too long.
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