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  Code Talker

  A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

  by Joseph Bruchac

  The United States is at war, and sixteen-year-old Ned Begay wants to join the cause—especially when he hears that Navajos are being specifically recruited by the Marine Corps. So he claims he’s old enough to enlist, breezes his way through boot camp, and suddenly finds himself involved in a top-secret task, one that’s exclusively performed by Navajos. He has become a code talker. Now Ned must brave some of... (more)
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  Riot

  by Walter Dean Myers

  As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent... (more)
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  The Marrow of Tradition

  by Charles W. Chesnutt

  A story about the struggles of black and white half-sisters, written by the author of "The Conjure Woman", "The Wife of His Youth", "The House Behind the Cedars" and "The Colonel's Daughter".
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  Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy: Book 3

  Sojourn

  by R. A. Salvatore

  Now in paperback, the third installment in the classic tales of the Legend of Drizzt. When a lone drow emerges from the Underdark into the blinding light of day, the Forgotten Realms world will be changed forever.
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  The Year the Gypsies Came

  by Linzi Alex Glass

  Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass’s debut.   As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents’... (more)
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  Black Mischief

  by Evelyn Waugh

  Black Mischief, Waugh's third novel, helped to establish his reputation as a master satirist. Set on the fictional African island of Azania, the novel chronicles the efforts of Emperor Seth, assisted by the Englishman Basil Seal, to modernize his kingdom. Profound hilarity ensues from the issuance of homemade currency, the staging of a "Birth Control Gala," the rightful ruler's demise at his own rather long and... (more)
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  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, "To Kill a Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film and stage production, both classics.Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving,... (more)
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  Forgotten Realms: The Dark Elf Trilogy

  The Dark Elf Trilogy

  Homeland / Exile / Sojourn

  by R. A. Salvatore

  This one-volume trilogy of novels recounts the birth and youth of one of the most well-known figures in modern fantasy literature. Born in the evil underground city of Menzoberranzan, Drizzt DoUrden must struggle against his dreadful heritage and survive the intrigues and murderous plots that are part of everyday life in the kingdom of the drow elves.
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  Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color

  Why can't a white kid sit with the black kids in the cafeteria? What happens when a biracial girl from Trinidad falls for a guy from a very different culture? How does a teen deal with being the only Palestinian boy or the only Japanese girl in a small American town? Face Relations offers eleven original works by celebrated authors Joseph Bruchac, Marina Budhos, M. E. Kerr, Kyoko Mori, Jess Mowry, Naomi Shihab... (more)
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  Same Kind of Different as Me

  A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

  by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent

  "Same Kind of Different As Me" was cowritten by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. It is the emotional tale of Hall and Moore's intersecting life journeys.
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  The Help

  by Kathryn Stockett

  Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy until Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would find solace with her beloved Constantine, the black maid who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a... (more)
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  The Lost Conspiracy

  (aka Gullstruck Island)

  by Frances Hardinge

  On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to supply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of ancient tensions and new calamity, that two sisters are caught in a deadly web of deceits.
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  Joe Donovan: Book 3

  White Riot

  by Martyn Waites

  The third novel in the acclaimed Joe Donovan series by "Britain's answer to Michael Connelly" (Ken Bruen). When the savagely beaten body of a Muslim student is discovered in a rundown area of Newcastle, blame falls on the far right National Unity Party—but for once they appear to be innocent. In fact, with elections looming, they are poised to make significant gains. Not the best time for Trevor Whitman,... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 12

  Iorich

  by Steven Brust

  House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head on Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera--longtime friend, sometime ally--has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime. It doesn't make sense. Everybody knows Aliera's been dabbling in elder sorcery for ages. Why is the Empire down on her now?... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 13

  Tiassa

  by Steven Brust

  Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living. That skill got him his foothold in House Jhereg, running the rackets for a chunk of urban Adrilankha. Later things happened, leaving Vlad a changed man, on the run from the Jhereg, and frequently involved in the affairs of Dragonlords, Empresses, and even Jenoine. Far more involved than the average short-lived human. Meanwhile in the very distant... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos

  The Book of Jhereg

  by Steven Brust

  Vlad Taltos x 3! Three Steven Brust fantasy novels in one all-new edition-featuring intrepid assassin Vlad Taltos and his jhereg companion. A welcome addition to any fantasy fan's library, The Book of Jhereg follows the antics of the wise-cracking assassin Vlad Taltos and his dragon-like companion through their first three adventures- Jhereg , Yendi , and Teckla . From his rookie assassin days to his... (more)
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  Fierce September

  by Fleur Beale

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  The Desecrator

  by Steven Brust

  From the Draegaran Empire, a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade.
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  Dancing With Elvis

  by Lynda Stephenson

  It's 1956, and ever since she and her mother rescued Angel Musseldorf from her abusive parents, Frankilee Baxter has been miserable. In addition to being more pretty, popular, and talented than Frankilee, Angel moves in, steals Frankilee's clothing, and begins dating the boy Frankilee likes. At the same time, Frankilee's community is struggling with the issue of school integration. What keeps Frankilee going... (more)
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  Vlad Taltos: Book 11

  Jhegaala

  by Steven Brust

  Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live in a papermaking industrial town called Burz. At first Burz isn’t such a bad place, though the paper mill reeks to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the... (more)