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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be captured in a raid...
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"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into...
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Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
4) Half life
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On the morning that changes everything, Aruna Ahmed Jones walks out of her ground-floor Victorian apartment in London wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, carrying nothing more substantial than a handbag, and keeps on walking. Leaving behind the handsome Dr. Patrick Jones, her husband of less than a year, Aruna heads to Heathrow, where she boards a plane bound for Singapore and her old life. Educated and beautiful, Aruna has a desperate need to risk...
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Cara Meredith grew up in a colorless world. From childhood, she didn't think issues of race had anything to do with her. A colorblind rhetoric had been stamped across her education, world view, and Christian theology. Then as an adult, Cara's life took on new, colorful hues. She realized that her generation, seeking to move beyond ancestral racism, had swung so far that they tried to act as if they didn't see race at all. But that picture neglected...
6) Otello
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The Met's production of Verdi's Otello from 1995, with Placido Domingo in one of his greatest roles opposite the stunning Renee Fleming in her first breakaway Met success.
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Korean
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Chʻang-guk's mother married an Afro-American soldier who was stationed in her village in the 1970s. He then left for America. The mother and son live in a red bus isolated from their neighbors. While waiting for her husband to return to take them to America, she sends letters to him. But every letter is returned to her stamped "address unknown."
10) Lawn boy
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Michael is a young man who grew up in the hood and seems to be living a carefree life. One day while mowing a lawn he meets Jennifer, the girl next door, and suddenly everything changes. They immediately have an attraction for each other, but there is one problem, they come from two completely different backgrounds. Sometimes love, family, and friends don't mix. Will Michael's and Jennifer's love for each other be strong enough to carry them through...
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"Krokodyl i żyrafa postanowili wyruszyć na wycieczkę do miasta. Niestety, pomysł okazał się nie najlepszy, gdyż osobliwa para zwracała uwagę niemal wszystkich, stając się przedmiotem kpin. Wszędzie wytykano ich palcami do czasu, aż zdarzyło się coś strasznego. Coś, co zapadło wszystkim w pamięć i sprawiło, że na ogromną żyrafę i malutkiego krokodyla zaczęto patrzeć zupełnie inaczej... Kolejna seria szalonych przygód oryginalnej,...
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"Mother of Orphans is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, Alice mysteriously surrendered her children to an orphanage. One hundred years later, her great-grand daughter, Dedria Humphries Barker, went in search of the reasons behind this mysterious abandonment,...
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Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally, a young woman coming to terms with her own racism. She soon fell in love with and married the Black writer Julius Lester, establishing a partnership that was long and multifaceted but not free of the politics of race and gender. Over time, as the women's movement dawned, feminism helped Lester find her voice, her pansexuality, and the...
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"In the heart of France's North American empire, the village of Kaskaskia was a community of French-Canadian fur traders and Kaskaskia Indians who not only lived together but often intermarried. These Indigenous and French intermarriages were central to colonial Illinois society, and the coupling of Marguerite 8assecam8c8e (Dawn's Light Woman) and Nicolas Franchomme, in particular, was critical to expanding the jurisdiction of French law"--
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