Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. An American marriage

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Author:
Jones, Tayari
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--

2. The darkest child

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Author:
Phillips, Delores, 1950-2014
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, and discussion guide Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment,...

3. Go set a watchman

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Author:
Lee, Harper
Series:
To kill a mockingbird volume 2.
Average Rating:
3.4 stars
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This book is an historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman...

4. A good neighborhood

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Author:
Fowler, Therese
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably."--

5. Homegoing: a novel

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Author:
Gyasi, Yaa
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...

6. No one is coming to save us: a novel

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Author:
Watts, Stephanie Powell
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has...

7. Not without laughter

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Author:
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
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Northeast Regional - Adult Fiction
HUGHES
Oberlin Regional - Adult Fiction
HUGHES
Richard B Harrison - Fiction - Does Not Circulate
LEE HUGHES

8. Push

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Author:
Sapphire, 1950-
Average Rating:
3.3 stars
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Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
SAPPHIRE
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Fiction
SAPPHIRE
North Regional - Adult Fiction
SAPPHIRE
Description:
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant for the second time by her father

9. Red at the bone

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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"An unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other. Moving forward and backward in time, [the] novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child"--Publisher marketing.

10. The revisioners: a novel

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Author:
Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson
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3 stars
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Cary Regional - Adult Fiction
SEXTON
East Regional - Adult Fiction
SEXTON
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Fiction
SEXTON

11. To kill a mockingbird

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Author:
Lee, Harper
Series:
To kill a mockingbird volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee exploreswith rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much."--Provided by publisher.

12. The vanishing half

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Author:
Bennett, Brit
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...