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  • Take My Hand, Book Cover
    Adults

    Take My Hand

    by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

    Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to...

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    Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction United States Characters with African American Heritage
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Book Cover
    Teens & Young Adults Adults

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    by Harper Lee

    Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South — and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

    One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird...

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    Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction United States Characters with African American Heritage
  • Homegoing, Book Cover
    Adults

    Homegoing

    by Yaa Gyasi

    Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in...

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    Historical Fiction West Africa Ghana Characters with African Heritage
  • A Rising Man, Book Cover
    Adults

    A Rising Man

    by Abir Mukherjee

    Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to head up a new post in the police...

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    Historical Fiction Mystery Historical Mystery India Characters with Asian Heritage
  • Train to Pakistan, Book Cover
    Adults

    Train to Pakistan

    by Khushwant Singh

    “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people — Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs — were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern...

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    Historical Fiction India Characters with Asian Heritage
  • The Henna Artist, Book Cover
    Adults

    The Henna Artist

    by Alka Joshi

    Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and...

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    Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction India Characters with Asian Heritage
  • The Glass Palace, Book Cover
    Adults

    The Glass Palace

    by Amitav Ghosh

    Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force...

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    Historical Fiction India Characters with Asian Heritage
  • A Fine Balance, Book Cover
    Adults

    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry

    With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the...

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    Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction India Characters with Asian Heritage
  • The Well of Loneliness, Book Cover
    Adults

    The Well of Loneliness

    by Radclyffe Hall

    First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career.

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    Realistic Fiction Historical Fiction United Kingdom LGBTQ Characters
  • The Kingdom of This World, Book Cover
    Adults

    The Kingdom of This World

    by Alejo Carpentier (Author), Pablo Medina (Translator)

    A few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere....

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    Magical Realism Historical Fiction Haiti Cuba Characters with Latin American Heritage
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