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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Series
Blessings volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When their "no frills" wedding turns into the event of the decade with the help of well-meaning neighbors, former high school sweethearts Lily Fontaine and Trent July consider eloping until something happens to remind them that happiness is to be shared.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. United by these characters' relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a masterful book that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In 1950s PHILADELPHIA, fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC., with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. But William hails from one of...
1085) A sister's power
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For the five Reeves women, nothing is more important than keeping their family bond tight and their communication flowing. But honesty isn't so clear cut when it could blow up everything they've fought to build... Now between revenge, grief, and forgiveness, these siblings will challenge themselves - and all they think they know about each other - in a showdown that may leave them united - or cause them to forever fall apart"--
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