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Jackson, Tiffany D.

Summary: When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JAC

Tanabe, Karin

Summary: "Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country's most exclusive school for women, Vassar College. Now, a bright, beautiful senior in the class of 1897, she is hiding a secret that would have banned her from admission: Anita is the only African-American student ever to attend Vassar. With her olive complexion and dark hair, this daughter of a janitor and descendant of slaves...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: P TAN

Twain, Mark

Summary: When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1974

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWA

Erdrich, Louise.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ERD

McCrumb, Sharyn

Summary: It is up to mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains and prevent a clash between the living the dead.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCC

Paul, Crystal Smith

Summary: "When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could-and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAU

Austin, Lynn N.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUS

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BEN

Benedict, Marie

Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BEN

Benedict, Marie

Summary: The remarkable story of J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched the nation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEN

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC BEN

Bennett, Brit

Summary: Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEN

Jenkins, Beverly

Summary: "Raised as a slave, Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the façade when he becomes fascinated with the beautiful black woman he rescued in the desert"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JEN

Satran, Pamela Redmond

Summary: "Alice is trying to return to her career in publishing after raising her only child. But the workplace is less than welcoming to a fortysomething mom whose resume is covered with fifteen years of dust. If Alice were younger, she knows, she'd get hired in a New York minute. So if age is just a number, why not become younger? Or at least fake it. With help from her artist friend, Maggie, Alice...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAT

Benedict, Marie

Summary: "In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021

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Morgan, Robert

Summary: Fleeing the family farm disguised as a man after killing her abusive stepfather, Josie Summers meets and marries the Reverend John Trethman, but when he is kidnapped by British soldiers, Josie must risk her life to find her husband.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOR

Chua, Amy

Summary: "Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHU

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHU

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHU

Shea, Christina

Summary: In the final winter of the Second Word War, five-year-old Éva Farkas is sewn into a flour sack and smuggled across the Hungarian border to Romania. She is renamed Anca and forbidden to speak Hungarian ever again. When the pillars of Communism finally crumble, Anca returns to Hungary to find a home and reclaim the name her mother gave her.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2011

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHE

Oyeyemi, Helen.

Summary: In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never imagined she'd become, but the birth of Boy's daughter, Bird, who is dark-skinned,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC OYE

Benedict, Marie

Summary: "The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 318 FIC BEN

Blades, Nicole

Summary: "She's blossomed from a wealthy surgeon's beautiful daughter to elegant socialite to being the top fashion stylist in the country. And Nora Mackenzie is only days away from marrying into one of New York's richest, most powerful families. But her fairy tale rise is rooted in an incredible deception. What no one knows is that Nora is the biracial daughter of a Caribbean woman and a long-gone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Zink, Nell

Summary: "Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The two are mismatched from the start--she's a lesbian, he's gay--but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZIN

Benedict, Marie

4 holds on 8 copies

Summary: In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Odden, Karen

Summary: Nineteen-year-old Nell Hallam lives in a modest corner of Mayfair with her brother Matthew, an inspector at Scotland Yard. An exceptionally talented pianist, she aspires to attend the Royal Academy; but with tuition beyond their means, Nell sets out to earn the money herself--by playing piano in a popular Soho music hall. And the fact that she will have to disguise herself as a man and slip out...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ODD

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Odden 2018

Jackson, Tiffany D.

Summary: "When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation... Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JAC

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