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Rosarita

Desai, Anita, 1937-2024
Books, Manuscripts
A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico. Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish. She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to. It is bliss. And then a woman approaches her. The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mo...
[1 copy, 0 available, 2 reserves]
List view record 92: Rootless [sound recording]List view anchor tag for record 92: Rootless [sound recording]
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Rootless [sound recording]

Appiah, Krystle Zara2023
Audiobooks
Teenagers Efe and Sam first meet in London in the 1990s. Years later the best friends are married. Their love story couldn't seem more perfect. But Sam wants to start a family. Efe wants to be free from children to focus on her dreams. When an unplanned pregnancy forces them to confront their dif...
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Sky full of elephants : a novel

Campbell, Cebo2024
Books, Manuscripts
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he's now a professor of electric and solar power syste...
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The situationship

Rumble, Taylor-Dior2023
Books, Manuscripts
When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out there. Expectations of dating apps are low, so it's a surprise when she instantly connects with handsome photographer Nate. He's everything she's looking for; he makes her feel safe, seen, and desired. ...
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Silence is a sense

AlAmmar, Layla2021
Books, Manuscripts
A young woman spends her days watching the neighbours through their windows. She is a refugee, who has seen the failure of the Arab Spring in her homeland and who has been traumatised into silence by her brutal journey from Syria to Britain. As an outsider, a mute voyeur, she sees everything, she...
[2 copies, 1 available, 1 reserve]
List view record 96: The school for good mothersList view anchor tag for record 96: The school for good mothers
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The school for good mothers

Chan, Jessamine2022
Books, Manuscripts
Frida Liu is an anxiety-prone, 39-year-old, Chinese-American single mom living in a Philadelphia much like ours when she is reported, after a spate of sleepless nights with her 18-month-old, for leaving her daughter alone for a stretch of time she later calls her Very Bad Day. Yet there is no roo...
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Savvy Sheldon feels good as hell

McCoy, Taj2023
Books, Manuscripts
Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma, who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. But when Savvy's world st...
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Sankofa [sound recording]

Onuzo, Chibundu2021
Audiobooks
Here is a funny, gripping, and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her...
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Rose and the Burma sky

Amaka, Rosanna2023
Books, Manuscripts
1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of the world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep whooshes by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages are hard to resist,...
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Rose and the Burma sky

Amaka, Rosanna2024
Books, Manuscripts
1939: In a village in south-east Nigeria at the brink of the world, young Obi watches from a mango tree as a colonial army jeep whooshes by, filled with soldiers laughing and shouting, their buttons shining in the sun. To Obi, their promise of a smart uniform and regular wages are hard to resist,...
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