Such a fun age : a novel —Reid, Kiley, author.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted whil...

Cry, the beloved country —Paton, Alan.

Story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s.

Monsters and men

Tells the story of the aftermath of a police shooting of an unarmed black man, focusing on a young father who witnessed the incident, an African-American police officer, and a young baseball player deciding whether to jo...

A passage to India —Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970, author.

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial Englis...

Dear Martin —Stone, Nic, author.

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

Small great things : a novel —Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author.

"A young woman and her husband, admitted to hospital to have a baby, request that their nurse be reassigned--they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but ...

Roll of thunder, hear my cry —Taylor, Mildred D.

A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

Small great things —Picoult, Jodi, 1966- author.

"A young woman and her husband, admitted to hospital to have a baby, request that their nurse be reassigned--they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but ...

To kill a mockingbird : 50th Anniversary Edition —Lee, Harper, author

A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout, as her f...

To kill a mockingbird —Lee, Harper, author.

Homegoing —Gyasi, Yaa, author.

An engaging family saga following two half-sisters -- one who marries into privilege and one sold into slavery -- and their descendants as they navigate the politics of their separate countries and their heritage. Each i...

Bamboozled

In a moment of sarcasm, a frustrated African-American network executive pitches an idea about a minstrel show and is dismayed when his network actually proceeds with the idea and it becomes a hit.

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian —Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

The secret life of bees —Kidd, Sue Monk.

The journey of Little Charlie —Curtis, Christopher Paul, author.

When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have sto...

The land —Taylor, Mildred D.

After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.

Such a fun age a novel —Reid, Kiley.

"Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted whi...

Go set a watchman —Lee, Harper, author.

Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to tran...

The black kids —Hammonds Reed, Christina, author.

With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

Ring shout : or hunting Ku Kluxes in the end times —Clark, P. Djèlí, author.

"In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the dark...