This week’s theme: How to Deal with Hostile People. The book on which our theme’s based: It is the first published science fiction novel written by a black woman, the story of a 26-year-old writer...
The theme this week: Gossip. One death leads to another in this case involving two influential families in one small town. Word on the curb is that a few people could be the murderer, and...
In the mountains surrounding Acapulco, there exists a town full of women. Only women. And being a woman is a deadly mistake here.
She's witnessed something that propels her into a series of events, forever changing her life and the lives of everyone she knows.
One little girl is the first of six children born free in her family after the abolition of slavery. Despite all of her obstacles, she becomes America's first female self-made millionaire.
One girl's mission is to help her community escape the terror around them with stories that remind them of the past and inspire them to continue living despite the present. One day, she notices a book missing from her hidden collection. It has her name inside and could expose her to the aliens. Who took it? The answer leads to a road trip that could save the world.
Persepolis is the story of a girl growing up in a time of war and revolution. Together, she and her country must decide who they're supposed to be and who they actually are.
From the projects to Paris: One woman's brutally honest story about surviving the vices of her neighborhood, only to be thrust into a world that neither wants nor accepts her is a sobering reminder of the disparities plaguing citizens of a nation still ignoring its history. Her undying drive to be recognized takes her in and out of ivy league schools, prisons, and psychiatric hospitals until she's finally drawn across the ocean to expatriation and rebirth.
Growing up in rural Mississippi, one woman watches helplessly as five men close to her die over the span of 5 years. Through the pain and confusion, she sees clearly what facilitated the demise of each family member and friend — a system built on the foundations of racism and economic turmoil. She decides to tell their stories. Her writing is evidence that these living, loving bodies existed.
Our first YA novel (!!!) tackles racial, economical, and social disparities between the connected members of one city. It follows Jade, a smart girl from a poor neighborhood, who attends high school with the children of Portland's upper-class families. She constantly struggles to find herself, her place, and her voice, in a world bent on ignoring her. She is on the brink of adulthood, trying to figure out who she is and who she can trust.
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