Ahmed, Tufayel
Summary: It's time everyone knew the truth, and what better way to announce you're getting married (and gay) than on your family WhatsApp group? Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AHMSummary: The movie follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the American patriarchy. Winner of top prizes at the BlackStar and New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TESYanique, Tiphanie
Summary: "This novel maps the romantic history and emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love. Monster in the Middle moves from the U.S. to the Virgin Islands to Ghana and back again, to show how one couple's romance is influenced by the family lore and love stories that preceded their own pairing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YANAli, Monica
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALIRonan, Kelsey
Summary: "When we meet August "Gus" Molloy on the opening pages of CHEVY IN THE HOLE he's just overdosed at the Detroit restaurant where he works. Shortly after, he packs it in and returns home to his family for another shot at sobriety. There, he meets and falls quickly in love with Monae Livingston, an urban farmer trying to coax a tenuous rebirth from the damaged land. As Gus and Monae begin dreaming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "London's daring new equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong arms of Victorian society's most sought after and devastatingly handsome half-Indian tailor. Evelyn Maltravers knows exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATJordan, Evelyn
Summary: When the man who left her behind returns home years later to make amends and win her back, single mother and bakery owner Romey Michaels finds the secrets and painful memories of her past come rushing back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JORBryce, Denny S.
Summary: "New York, 1924. Born to English immigrants who've built a comfortable life, idealistic Alice Jones longs for the kind of true love her mother and father have. She believes she's found it with Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the shy heir to his prominent white family's real estate fortune. Alice too, is "white", though she is vaguely aware of rumors that question her ancestry - gossip her parents...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two generations ago it was a recipe for social ostracism; a generation ago the tongues wagged; and now there are some once totally clannish ethnic groups with a 60% rate of intermarriage. This program examines how and why couples of different colors, religions, and ethnic roots are drawn to one another, how their differences affect their marriages, how they deal with their friends, and how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Colerick, Brad
Summary: A true story of "found and lost" ... and found again. "Zintka!" tells the troubled tale of a Native American girl caught between two worlds, accepted by neither. A Lakota (Sioux) baby and her mother who were fleeing for safety became victims in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. The baby was found four days after a South Dakota blizzard, alive by the warmth of her mother's dead body. She was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Magic Song & Drawing Co. 2024