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African American families Fiction African American women Fiction California Fiction California Race relations Fiction Californie Romans, nouvelles, etc Elementary schools Fiction Missing persons Fiction Noires américaines Romans, nouvelles, etc Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc Secrecy FictionPayne, Nikki
Summary: "Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire Internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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Summary: "After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDDameron, DéLana R. A.
Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)
Summary: "A delightful, escapist romp that explores just how far parents will go to give their kids the very best, in this adult mystery debut. Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024
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Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BaldacciGarrett, Kellye
Summary: For their romantic getaway to New York City, Breanna's new boyfriend, Ty, took care of everything--the train tickets, the dinner reservations, the luxury row house where they stayed. But on the final morning, when Breanna came downstairs, she found a dead white woman in the foyer, and Ty was gone. The woman is Janelle Beckett, a missing person with a social media following, #Justice4Janelle....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company 2024
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Summary: "When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024