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Friends, the
author: Guy, Rosa West Indian immigrant Phyllisia Cathy has been plopped down in Harlem with her proud, larger-than-life father, dying mother and pretty, compliant sister.reviewdate: May 18 2013read more
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32 Candles
author: Carter, Ernessa T. Davidia, who doesn't speak for most of her Mississippi childhood after being beaten by her drunk of a mom, develops an insane crush on the BMOC at her school about ten years...
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Frost Burned
author: Briggs, Patricia I didn't sleep for even a minute on my cross-country flight, which left JFK at 9pm and landed at SFO more than six hours later at midnight and change. Most of the time I was...
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Shortest Day 2013, the
author: Perez, Celia C. If you've been paying any attention at all, you know that I'm a huge Celia Perez fan. In fact I reviewed last year's issue of The Shortest Day here, most glowingly.reviewdate:...
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Wench
author: Perkins-Valdez, Dolen White masters bring their slaves to an Ohio resort for the summer. The story is mostly about Lizzie a house slave who is even more deeply enslaved to her owner because...
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One Flight Up
author: Fales-Hill, Susan Even though this tale of four women in their late thirties is strictly an extra sexed-up romance novel that's not particularly compelling and has some weird quasi-feminist...
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Cooked Seed
author: Min, Anchee You may recall that I was enthusiastic about Min's first memoir, Red Azalea and her novel Wild Ginger. I expected to like Cooked Seed twice as hard. It starts more or less where...
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Ghost Bride, the
author: Choo, Yangsze It is the rare piece of literary fiction that I can get through these days, but I sailed through The Ghost Bride. It's literary, also historical and magical. The story takes...
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Witches of East End
author: de la Cruz, Melissa I put this book on hold at NYPL after watching the first episode of the TV series. I only made it through one and a half more installments of the show, but when my copy of...
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If You Could Be Mine
author: Farizan, Sara Did you know it's easier to be transsexual in Iran than homosexual? According to the novel and Wikipedia, the only country in the world that does more sex reassigngment surgeries...
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Behind the Mountains
author: Danticat, Edwidge Danticat tells a story similar to her own, but set about twenty years later and with plenty of other elements to differentiate it from a fictionalized memoir, about a Haitian...
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Teatime for the Firefly
author: Patel, Shona The publisher is Harlequin MIRA, but it didn't occur to me when I originally read a review of this book that it was a romance. I'm still not sure if that was the intent, because,...
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Tiny Pretty Things
author: Charaipotra, Sona Clayton, Dhonielle reviewdate: Mar 4 2015isn: 9780062275325 read more
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Angelfall
author: Ee, Susan Quotations: When you're small enough to have to look up at everyone around you, there's no such thing as a dirty fight.reviewdate: Mar 13 2015isn: 978-0761463276 read more
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Land of Love and Drowning
author: Yanique, Tiphanie reviewdate: Apr 4 2015isn: 9780698168800 read more
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Spy in the House, a
author: Lee, Y.S. reviewdate: Apr 22 2015isn: 9780763651824 read more
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Taking Flight: from War Orphan to Star Ballerina
author: DePrince, Michaela DePrince, Elaine reviewdate: Apr 24 2015isn: 9780385755139 read more
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Woman in the Movie Star Dress, the
author: Asthana, Praveen reviewdate: May 8 2015isn: 9780692367445 read more
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