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Alfieri, Annamaria

Summary: It s 1911, and young Vera McIntosh is in love and out of place. Pale and Scottish, a missionary s daughter, she no longer fits in with the Kikuyu with whom she grew up. But she is too African, too native to be welcomed by Kenya s ex-pat community. It s only in Justin Tolliver s arms that Vera feels truly at home. Tolliver, too, is neither fish nor fowl. True, he s the son of an English earl,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALF

Onuzo, Chibundu

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself alone and wondering who she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONU

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONU

Alfieri, Annamaria

Summary: "It's 1913, and Justin Tolliver is no longer a member of the colonial police in British East Africa. Instead, he has opted for life as an African farmer and a newly minted family-man. But once again, Vera and Justin are brought face to face with terrible injustice."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALF

Jones, Martha S.

Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 Jon

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