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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime."
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family's social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who's rarely home)....
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story of love and loss across the color line, Brothers is a historian's quest to make sense of the life and death of his older brother, a mixed-race hip-hop artist and screenwriter, who was the victim of a racially charged attack"--
3) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a mother and daughter watch a bird take flight, the young girl feels a trembling in her arms and a lightness in her feet. Her mama shares that once, long ago, their ancestors actually could fly. Every night they would slip away and soar through the skies, searching for safety, looking for the promised land. Mama feels in her bones that her daughter is meant to follow those old ways, like her grandmother before her. So Mama grabs hold of her hand,...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A moving graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse communities in San Francisco amidst environmental catastrophes, an accelerating tide of racial and economic inequality, burnout, and his family's expectations" --
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