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181) Pushing pawns
Author
Series
Chess club volume Book 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
©2021
Language
English
Description
Urban high school kid Moses Middleton hoped that chess competition could be a ticket out of mediocrity, but everything goes pear-shaped after a disastrous tournament. That's when he meets Viktor, a mad Russian grandmaster who agrees to coach the team by revealing the secrets of Soviet chess. Together with his crew -- charismatic psychopath P.D. Morales, gifted violinist and expert fencer Esther Toussaint, shy anime fan Maggie Wang, and the new boy,...
Author
Publisher
J'ai Lu
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
"'J'allais conjurer le sort, le mauvais œil qui me collait le train depuis près de trente ans. Le Voyant d'Étampes serait ma renaissance et le premier jour de ma nouvelle vie. J'allais recaver une dernière fois, me refaire sur un registre plus confidentiel, mais moins dangereux.' Universitaire alcoolique et fraîchement retraité, Jean Roscoff se lance dans l'écriture d'un livre pour se remettre en selle : Le voyant d'Étampes, essai sur un poète...
183) The shade tree
Author
Series
Guernica prize volume 3
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Shade Tree is a searing exploration of racial injustice set against the backdrop of some of America's most turbulent historical events. The lives of two white sisters and a black midwife are inextricably linked through a series of haunting tragedies, and the characters must make life-changing decisions about where their loyalties lie: with their biological families or with a greater moral cause. From a Florida orange grove to the seat of power...
184) Five little indians
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world...
185) Stranded: a novel
Author
Publisher
Good2Go Pub
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
After a long ten years in prison, Dez is finally released and reunited with his family. When his wife decides that they should take a road trip to help bring their family closer, Dez agrees. But things turn from good to bad when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and the only person that can help them is a creepy looking stranger that goes by the name Tom. Dez is forced into an impossible situation and has to use his street smarts if...
186) In the silences
Author
Publisher
Bella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Kaz Adams just wants to read comic books and spend every day with Aisha Warren. And maybe get up the nerve to ask her out, if Kaz turns out to be a gender that Aisha's into. Kaz had always expected to be targeted for gender nonconformity, but loving Aisha opens Kaz's eyes to the prevalence of racism in their town. Trouble is, none of the other white people are seeing it, even when Kaz points it out. By the time they reach sophomore...
Author
Publisher
Rosetta Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
One summer night, Genna Colon makes a fateful wish that sends her and her boyfriend Judah spiraling through time. They land hours apart in the city of Brooklyn—and in the middle of the Civil War. Genna is taken to the free Black community of Weeksville, but Judah suffers a harsher fate and is sent to the South as a slave. Judah miraculously makes his way back to Genna, but the New York City Draft Riots tear them apart once more. When Genna unexpectedly...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Richmond, California. World War II. A cross burning takes innocent lives and unsettles the town. After Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, American Italians start to disappear, a rapist promises to revisit his victims, and someone viciously beats shipyard workers to death. His failure to solve these seemingly unrelated events haunts homicide detective Oliver Wright, even after he reenlists in the Marines and finds himself fighting in the Pacific. Oliver returns...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years. Negrophobia, with its outrageous and electrifying mix of screenplay, poetry, and performance piece on paper, pushes the conventional territory of the novel to its outer, outer limits. Raunchy and rambunctious, Darius James turns words into flesh and flesh into monstrous forms. His writing is as intoxicating as the works of William Burroughs...
190) La otra chica negra
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Provocador e inteligente, La otra chica negra es un debut electrizante sobre la tensión que se crea cuando dos jóvenes negras se encuentran cara a cara en el mundo editorial neoyorkino, predominantemente blanco. La joven asistente editorial Nella Rogers está cansada de ser la única empleada negra en Wagner Books. Harta del aislamiento y las pequeñas ofensas, no puede evitar entusiasmarse cuando una nueva compañera negra, nacida y criada en Harlem,...
Author
Publisher
Dominion Asset Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lost Seeds is the story of two brothers, Dublin and Timothy Brisco, born into poverty at the turn of the twentieth century to formerly enslaved parents. From birth, they witness firsthand the atrocities their parents had to endure and themselves experience the continued struggles of being Black in the South. Encounters with physical abuse, mental illness, and racism define the brothers' lives, and despite their best efforts to survive, the seeds...
Author
Publisher
Humanoids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s United Kingdom, as Swinging London is underway, the existence of fairies is exposed to the light of day. Is humanity ready? Drawn by the lights of Swinging London, Annan leaves her forest to pursue her dreams of becoming a singer. She meetsStella, a human with whom she quickly falls in love. But her lover's disappearance will make Anann realize that beneath the glitz and glamour of the city, rejection is only a tiny part of what awaits...
193) Youth without God
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." But, when he reprimands...
Author
Publisher
Nathan, SEJER
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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