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1) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister.
2) Mudbound
Author
Language
English
Description
In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles, two young men return from the war to work the land. Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, is everything her husband is not - charming, handsome, and haunted by his memories...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King's Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Agreeing to a marriage of convenience involving a share of land granted by the Homestead Act, an African-American boardinghouse owner's son and a hired woman stake a claim and begin a pioneer life together in the South Dakota Badlands.
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