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Central - Adult Fiction
F GONZA
2 available
F GONZA
2 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F GONZA
1 available
F GONZA
1 available
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT F GONZA
1 available
LT F GONZA
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Large Type
LT F GONZA
1 available
LT F GONZA
1 available
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
3 available
F WILKE
3 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
2 available
F WILKE
2 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F WILKE
1 available
F WILKE
1 available
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4 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
Description
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and...
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"Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993. Hannah, who comes from a strict Korean home, meets Angel, a free and beautiful boy, at a quinceañera: Beyond flushed, sweating bodies pushed, pushing like cattle below black & buzzing speakers, under a torn pink streamer loose as a tendril of hair--lush-- his eyes. Darkluminous. Warm. A blush floods her. Hannah sucks...
4) New people
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
3 available
F WOODS
3 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
1 available
F WOODS
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
1 available
F WOODS
1 available
Description
"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...