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List view record 41: In the shadows of loveList view anchor tag for record 41: In the shadows of love
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In the shadows of love

Khan, Awais (Novelist)2024
Books, Manuscripts
To strangers that pass her on the streets of Lahore, Mona Ahmed lives a life to be envied. Married to wealthy businessman Bilal, with happily married children and living in a vast home with staff to attend to her every desire, she seems to want for nothing. But behind the gilded exterior lies a p...
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Keisha the sket

LB, Jade2022
Books, Manuscripts
Keisha is a girl from the ends, sharp, feisty and ambitious; she's been labelled 'top sket' but she's making it work. When childhood crush and long-time admirer, Ricardo, finally wins her over, Keisha has it all: power, a love life and the chance for stability. But trauma comes knocking and with ...
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Last summer on State Street

Wolfe, Toya2024
Books, Manuscripts
State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything. An unlikely trio - Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of fiercely protective mother; Precious Brown, daughter of a prominent church Elder; and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin. They have a simple friendship, ...
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The last white man

Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-2023
Books, Manuscripts
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an establishe...
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The last white man

Hamid, Mohsin, 1971-2022
Books, Manuscripts
One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an establishe...
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The leftover woman

Kwok, Jean2023
Books, Manuscripts
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with n...
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The leftover woman

Kwok, Jean2024
Books, Manuscripts
Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with n...
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Let us descend

Ward, Jesmyn2024
Books, Manuscripts
'Let Us Descend' is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisian...
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Locks

Nugent, Ashleigh2023
Books, Manuscripts
Aeon, a mixed-up and mixed-race teenager from a leafy Liverpool suburb, is desperate to find his Black roots. He needs to understand the Black identity foisted upon him by his friends and his community. To his growing shame, the only Black people in his life are his dad and his cousin, Increase -...
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Losing the plot

Owusu, Derek2023
Books, Manuscripts
Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement are felt across generations....
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