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Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her blue-black skin has long defined the woman called Bride. Her search for the love her light-skinned mother, Sweetness, never gave her leads Bride to Booker, a bitter man still reeling from his brother's childhood murder. When Booker's love fails, Bride and her mother must come to terms with the long-lasting effects of Bride's tumultuous childhood. 192pp., 200K, Auth res: Grandview-on-the-Hudson, NY
2) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
3) Beloved
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past.
4) A mercy
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Florens, a sixteen-year-old slave on a Virginia plantation is given to a Dutch trader named Jacob Vaark as payment for a debt owed to Vaark by her master, and moves to his small Northern farm where her presence is felt keenly by Vaark's childless wife Rebekka, Native American servant Lina, and Sorrow, a foundling.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time...
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