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• Americanah

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected.

• Belle Cora

  Margulies, Phillip, 1952-

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  A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Freshwater Road

  Nicholas, Denise, 1944-

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  When University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree travels to Mississippi to volunteer her efforts in Freedom Summer, she's assigned to help register voters in the small town of Pineyville, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Help

  Stockett, Kathryn

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  In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women - black and white, mothers and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heretic's Daughter

  a Novel

  Kent, Kathleen, 1953-

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  Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Name Is Resolute

  Turner, Nancy E., 1953-

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  The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in New England and taught the trade of spinning and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

  Hashimi, Nadia

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  In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house. Their only hope lies in the ancient custom of bacha posh, which allows young Rahima to dress and be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone Knows My Name

  Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

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  Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom - and of the knowledge she needs to get home. This captivating story of one woman's remarkable experience spans six decades and three continents…Read moreRead more of this annotation