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The Air Between Us
by Deborah Johnson
the air between us by Deborah Johnson (2/20/2009)
The 50's and 60's were fraught with confusion, anger and hope as America began its attempt to put away the sentiments of prejudice and bigotry which ignorance had fostered. Deborah Johnson employs Revere, Mississippi as the setting for one town's struggle with the conceptmore
Evening Is the Whole Day
by Preeta Samarasan
A spellbinding story (4/19/2008)
Preeta Samarasan weaves language, time and characters in such a way as to carry the reader into a different culture and history. She creates an even web, teaching and enchanting even as each event and person come to life, showing that what one sees at a given moment in timemore
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    The Jackal's Mistress
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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Hour of the Witch, a Civil War love story of a Confederate wife and a wounded Yankee.

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