Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. Another Brooklyn: a novel

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Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Book, Audiobook, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook
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"Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything--until it wasn't."--Amazon.com.

2. Calling Me Home

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Author:
Kibler, Julie
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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A soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati—with no clear explanation why—tomorrow.

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