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41) Upscale kittens
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"When Angela Law is murdered by a corrupted DC police officer, because she concealed a pregnancy by him, which he didn't want, her three younger sisters witness the entire crime. Each of them internalize the violence in different ways. Years later Jazzy Law finds herself in a tough position as the sole provider for her two sisters, Nandi and Love ... To make matters worse, as the bills mount up, and their apartment is condemned, Jazzy is forced to...
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"Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. The daughters of Muscadine are Black Southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman tries...
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"«Tituba y yo convivimos en la más estrecha intimidad durante un año. Me contó muchas cosas que nunca le había confesado a nadie.» Maryse Condé adopta la voz de Tituba, la esclava negra juzgada en los famosos procesos por brujería que tuvieron lugar en la ciudad de Salem a finales del siglo XVII. Hija de la esclava Abena, que fue violada por un marinero inglés a bordo de un barco negrero, Tituba fue iniciada en el arte de lo sobrenatural...
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