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      -- Twenty-six a.
      By Evans, Diana, 1971-
       c2005., Doubleday Canada Call No: BLK Fic Eva   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library
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      By Chong, Corinna
       c2013., General, NeWest Press Call No: Fic Cho    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Half-Asian teenager Grace (but she'd prefer it if you called her "Gray" instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother--although she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English countryside, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her unique place within it.
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      By Brunhuber, Kim Barry
       c2003., Beach Holme Call No: BLK Fic Bru   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: High fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all these when he's suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today's Toronto. Stacey's part black, part white, and apparently on a fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as if he's standing still. But does he really want the glitz?.
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      By Brunhuber, Kim Barry
       c2003., Dundurn Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: High fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all these when he's suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today's Toronto. Stacey's part black, part white, and apparently on a fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as if he's standing still. But does he really want the glitz?.
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      By Donoghue, Emma, 1969-
       2023., Adult, Harper Avenue Call No: Fic Don   Edition: First Canadian edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world's greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the age.
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       2023., Scribner Call No: BLK Fic War   Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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      By Quon, Anna L, 1968-
       c2013., General, Invisible Publishing Summary Note: "A novel about family, identity, illness, love and loss. Lyrical, personal prose draw readers into the world of Adriana Song. We feel our way through "Low" with her as she navigates lopsided friendships, failed romances - as she tries to to weather the storm that is her life."--Publisher.
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      By Mordecai, Pamela
       [2015], Adult, Tap Books Call No: Fic Mor    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Growing up as part of a large, loving family on the Caribbean island of St. Chris, Grace Carpenter is happy but puzzled about her identity. Although her extended family is black, she is a redibo, with copper-coloured skin, freckles, reddish hair, and grey eyes. Sometimes she gets called names, but the question of why she is different is never explained. As this masterful novel unfolds, we gradually learn the story of Grace's birth mother, just a teenager herself, and why Grace was adopted by the Carpenters. As she grows and prospers, she is still plagued by the mystery surrounding her birth and a yearning to understand her heritage and who she truly is.
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       2017., Adult, Scribner Call No: BLK Fic War    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she's high; Mam is dying of cancer; and quiet, steady Pop tries to run the household and teach Jojo how to be a man. When the white father of Leonie's children is released from prison, she packs her kids and a friend into her car and sets out across the state for Parchman farm, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, on a journey rife with danger and promise."--From publisher.
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      By Echlin, Kim
       c2015., Adult, Hamish Hamilton Call No: Fic Ech    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Fatherless Katherine carries the stigma of her mixed-race background through an era that is hostile to her and all she represents. It is only through music that she finds the freedom to temporarily escape and dream of a better life for herself, nurturing this hard-won refuge throughout the vagaries of unexpected motherhood and an absent husband, and relying on her talent to build a future for her family. Orphaned Mahsa also grows up in the shadow of loss, sent to relatives in Pakistan after the death of her parents. Struggling to break free, she escapes to Montreal, leaving behind her first love, Kamal. But the threads of her past are not so easily severed, and she finds herself forced into an arranged marriage. For Mahsa, too, music becomes her solace and allows her to escape from her oppressive circumstances. When Katherine and Mahsa meet, they find in each other a kindred spirit as well as a musical equal, and their lives are changed irrevocably. Together, they inspire and support one another, fusing together their cultures, their joys, and their losses--just as they collaborate musically in the language of free-form, improvisational jazz.