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41) Rachel LeMoyne
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Rachel LeMoyne, a mixed-blood Choctaw raised in a Presbyterian mission, knows that her calling in 1847 is to travel to Ireland to feed the starving people there with her own people's life-giving surplus corn. But she never expects to find a husband among the hungry and grief-stricken people--especially not a husband considered to be an outlaw.
When Rachel and Darragh return to America as husband and wife, a new challenge awaits her: they must flee...
42) Saga
Author
Series
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"At long last, Hazel and her star-crossed family are finally back, and they've made some new...friends?"--
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical, moving novel in the spirit of Transcendent Kingdom and A Burning--and the most awarded debut title in South Africa--that tells the story of a multiracial family when the Immorality Act is passed, revealing the story of one family's scattered souls in the wake of history"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted -- and divided -- family, set against the backdrop of postwar America On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish emigre scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and--against all odds and better judgment--they marry. They vow to raise their...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After six years of marriage, Victoria and Ted are the ultimate power couple. She's a beautiful sister who owns one of Atlanta's most sought after event planning companies. He's a powerful, blue-eyed CEO who knows how to take care of business in and out of the boardroom. But their seemingly happy life begins to unravel when long held desire and decades old secrets come back to haunt them. Can they repair the damage before it's too late?
48) The love wife
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a "half half" family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie's Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie's WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member.
Her name...
49) Java Head
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1946.
Language
English
Description
An Englishman returns from a long sea voyage with a Chinese wife. In Bristol, England in the early 1800's, this causes a great scandal.
Author
Publisher
Palagrave
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of...
51) Caucasia
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A novel on children of mixed marriages. The protagonists are two sisters in Boston, daughters of a black professor and a white woman. One daughter passes for black and attends black school while her sister passes for white and attends white school. But the classmates know and when it comes to bigotry, equality reigns among the races. A debut in fiction. Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists...
52) Never forever
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A woman with a seemingly perfect marriage to a successful lawyer begins an affair with an immigrant worker in order to get pregnant, after finding that her husband is unable to father children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
People of different races have been falling in love for centuries, but it has only been in the last 30 years that interracial relationships have become acceptable in American society not to mention by local police. This book addresses the problems facing interracial couples from a black perspective. From interracial dating to marriage and child rearing, it talks frankly about racism and discrimination, deals with the disapproval of relatives, discusses...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A young interracial couple escapes from Maryland to France in 1894, living first among artists in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, and then beginning a new life as winemakers in the rugged countryside of the Languedoc." --
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The difficult life of a colored woman before she finds a homeland. She is Jacinta, English-born daughter of an African writer and a white Englishwoman. After an unhappy childhood in Britain and an unsuccessful marriage in America she moves to Africa and discovers she belongs. A first novel.
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