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401) Second-Class Citizen
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"'Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah's dream was no exception, for hers had many.' They nicknamed Adah 'the Igbo tigress' at school in Nigeria, she was so fearless. Now she has moved to London to join her husband, and is determined to succeed. But her welcome from 1960's England - and the man she married - is a cold one. Providing for her growing family, struggling to survive and negotiating everyday injustices along...
402) Lost
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When their father fails to come home one day, Lola and Amit face a terrifying new reality. With no money and no idea how to look after themselves, they are made homeless and must find a way to survive on the streets. Things go from bad to worse when Lola and Amit are separated. In a race to find her brother, Lola must rely on the help of Rafi - a boy who, like her, is struggling to endure homelessness. Thrilling and hard-hitting in equal measure,...
403) Finding Edward
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"Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter with a panhandler named Patricia leads Cyril to a suitcase full of photographs and letters dating back to the early 1920s. Cyril is drawn into the letters and their story of a white mother's struggle with the need to...
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Germany 1938. While young and old are captivated by the country's rapid ascent under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, naive Maggie O'Dea, an American studying abroad, finds her own fortunes turning after falling in love with a handsome soldier and landing a job with the Propaganda Ministry. Embodying the infectious spirit of nationalism sweeping the country, her powerful dispatches launch her broadcasting career as a champion of the Fatherland.--Provided...
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"Six strangers. Six letters. A chain of dark confessions, none of which reaches the intended recipient. Over the course of one hundred profound and disturbing pages, The Night Post tells the story of characters living on the periphery, battling with devastating poverty, fighting their own demons. Set in an unnamed country torn apart by war, the six characters at the heart of this tale are compelled to share their most personal secrets. This outstanding...
406) The villain's dance
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"The Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as Congo-Kinshasa or DRCongo, has had a series of names since its founding. The name of Zaire best corresponds to the experience of the novel's characters. The years of Mobutu's regime were filled with utopias, dreams, fantasies and other uncontrolled desires for social redemption, the quest for easy enrichment and the desecration of places of power. Among these events: Zairians' immigration to Angola...
408) Open secrets
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"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeen year-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...
409) Cockfight
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"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--
412) Shalash the Iraqi
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"First (authorized) publication (in any language) of a wildly popular, anonymously written serial novel that started life as a blog during the US invasion of Iraq. Populated by a cast of imagined con artists, holy fools, drag queens, and partisans--as well as some very factual politicians, priests, and generals--this novel started life as a pseudonymous blog written 'live' by 'Shalash' during and after the Second Iraq War. Never written to be published,...
413) Paradise
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"Nadia ma świadomość, że nigdzie nie pasuje. Zawsze obok, nieustannie samotna. A to niejedyne problemy, które ją przytłaczają. Ricardo ma wszystko. Jego codzienność to atrakcyjne kobiety, szybkie samochody i niekończące się imprezy. Ale co tak naprawdę kryje się pod maską arogancji i bezczelności? Ścieżki tych dwojga przecinają się na portugalskich plażach wśród klifów, skłębionych fal i malowniczych uliczek. Ich relacja...
415) Sound switch wonder
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Inspired by the authors' real lives, this picture book shares what sound means for one young deaf boy as he experiences the world with cochlear implants.
416) Sisters in arms
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Hani, Kasih, and Saya have shared a deep friendship ever since they were kids. After years apart, the three young women meet again for a few days, to pick up where they left off. But regardless of what they have achieved, it becomes clear, again and again, that they can't escape the racism that accompanies their daily lives -- the glances, the chatter, the hatred, and the outright rightwing terror. But their friendship gives them stability. Until...
417) A case of peaches
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Case files of June Hunter volume 1
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"Social worker June Hunter races to find a loving adoptive family for a troubled teenage orphan before she ages out of the system. June supports the girl by teaching her how to trust, build healthy relationships, and prepare for an uncertain future. A Case of Peaches is set in the fascinating world of social workers, lawyers, cops, and needy kids."--provided by publisher.
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"Born in a city park, the little cat belongs to no-one, until he is befriended and cared for by Donald, a soldier. When Donald is sent away to fight in a far-off war-zone, the cat waits for him to return, at Edinburgh's Waverley Station. And waits... Travelers and railway staff name him Waverley, and look after him. But he is waiting for Donald. Years go by, until one day at last he hears a voice he knows. Warfare has drastically changed Donald's...
420) Ten dziwny wiek
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Alix Chamberlain to kobieta, która dostaje to, czego chce. Zarabia na życie dzięki wielkiej marce zbudowanej na swojej pewności siebie i pokazuje innym kobietom, jak robić to samo. Jest zszokowana, gdy pewnego wieczoru opiekunka Emira Tucker, którą poprosiła o pilne zajęcie się dzieckiem, staje się ofiarą okropnych pomówień. Ochroniarz ekskluzywnego supermarketu, widząc młodą, czarną kobietę z białym dzieckiem, oskarża Emirę...