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Multicultural

Book reviews of multicultural themes including diverse race, culture, and ethenticty within the deomographics of a specific place.

Author
Shaila Abdullah

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Saffron Dreams

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...

You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.

From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered.......

Author
Sherry Quan Lee

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Chinese Blackbird (Reflections of America)

Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird

"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain.......

Author
Sherry Quan Lee

Publisher
Modern History Press

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How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life (Reflections of America)

How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life.......

Author
Anya Achtenberg

Publisher
Modern History Press

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The Stories of Devil-Girl (Reflections of America Series)

Devil-Girl is a storyteller smaller than a stain and larger than life, a mythic figure roaming the globe. Born into Brooklyn housing projects and the nightmares of her immigrant family, she becomes a runaway in the human marketplace of the streets of New York.......

Author
Mara Feeney

Publisher
Gaby Press

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Rankin Inlet: A Novel

"This is a novel about culture shock, love, loss, identify, belonging, the Inuit people, and the birth of the Nunavut Territory in Arctic Canada.".....

Author
Ernest Dempsey

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. I, No.1)

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. 1, No. 1) September 2009

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through poetry, memoir, essays, fiction, humor, media reviews and psycho-education.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey

Publisher
Modern History Press

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The Blue Fairy and other stories of transcendence

A thought-provoking excursion to life's last breath

Ernest Dempsey's second collection of short stories The Blue Fairy takes a subject that has been dreaded for centuries - 'Death'.......

Author
Gint Aras

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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Finding the Moon in Sugar

Gint Aras writing is infused with a rare sensitivity for the thousands of seemingly trivial things that give meaning to life. He invites us to laugh at his hero, then sneaks him into our hearts. -Dan Vyleta, author of Pavel & I

In this tragicomedy, Gint Aras' hapless and marijuana-dazed narrator, Andrew Nowak, is seduced by a bombshell internet bride.......

Author
Jeremy Lent

Publisher
Libros Libertad

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Requiem of the Human Soul

Eusebio Franklin, a school teacher from a small community, is faced with the most terrifying dilemma imaginable: should he carry out an act of mass terrorism in order to save the human race?

Eusebio has been chosen to defend our human race in a special session of the United Nations.......

Author
Maxine Thompson

Publisher
Urban Soul

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Hostage of Lies (Urban Soul Presents)

Hostage Of Lies

Nefertiti “Titi” Godbolt’s been a captive of her family’s secrets her whole life. Now, as she returns home after seven years, she’s ready to confront her family and finally get some answers.......

Author
Shaila Abdullah

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Saffron Dreams (Reflections of America)

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...

You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.

From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered.......

Author
Sandra Carrington-Smith

Publisher
O Books

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The Book of Obeah

Upon the passing of her beloved grandmother, Melody Bennet receives startling instructions that she is to take the ashes of Grandmama Giselle to southern Louisiana. Melody must step far outside her comfort zone in the suburbs of North Carolina to fulfill this dying wish.......

Author
Herman Franck Esq.

Publisher
Kit Media Company

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How To Marry and Keep a Supermodel: Lessons From a Mid-Wife Crisis!

.WHAT DO YOU DO when your wife falls in love with another man? Do you (A) dump her, or (B) start a campaign to win her back? This is a story about a man who chose plan B. How to Marry and Keep a Supermodel chronicles the unlikely relationship of the Asian supermodel known as Sassafras and the regular guy attorney at law Herman Franck, Esq.......

Author
Waheed Rabbani

Publisher
YouWriteOn

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Doctor Margaret's Sea Chest

Doctor Margaret’s Sea Chest, is Book I of a trilogy of historical fiction set during India’s struggle for freedom—Azadi—from the British Raj.......

Author
Shaila Abdullah

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Saffron Dreams (Academic Edition)

Saffron Dreams is a tale of love, tragedy, and redemption from the award-winning author of Beyond the Cayenne Wall...

You don't know you're a misfit until you are marked as an outcast.

From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered.......

Author
Sweta Srivastava Vikram

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Because All is Not Lost: Verse on Grief (World Voices)

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is a multi-genre writer living in New York City. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in literary journals, online publications, and anthologies across six countries and three continents. Sweta has attended several writing residencies and workshops in the United States and Europe. She is a VONA writer and a graduate of Columbia University.......

Author
Theodore Jerome Cohen

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Full Circle: A Dream Denied, A Vision Fulfilled

Solly's dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy from gifted violin student to adult engineer and scientist, leaving no time for the career in music Solly so dearly wants his son to pursue.......

Author
Van Heerling

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Malaika

"Soulful yet primal, mystical and hauntingly moving - Malaika is a wonderfully memorable novel which is impossible to put down. From the sweeping vistas of Africa to the richly developed characters, this work will surprise and delight.......

Author
Carolyn Moncel

Publisher
CreateSpace

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5 Reasons to Leave a Lover: A Novella and Other Short Stories

In 5 Reasons to Leave a Lover, author Carolyn Moncel offers up a fresh batch of stories based on love and loss. As singer/songwriter, Paul Simon so eloquently suggested in a famous song from the 1970s, there are many ways to leave a lover. However, Moncel's characters demonstrate that the reasons for leaving in the first place are quite finite.......

Author
Alan Thompson

Publisher
WingSpan Press

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A Hollow Cup

A HOLLOW CUP recounts the murder of a beautiful young woman and the effort, twenty-five years later, to find her killer. The novel has three parts. In "The Island" we see the characters growing up in the segregated South. Like most of the book, it presents events from the perspective of the two main characters, Pete Johnson and Luke Stanley.......

Author
Rhonda Sheree

Publisher
Reason Enterprises

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Jaded

Syeesha Green knew something wasn’t right the second she entered her office. And within minutes of her arrival, she was back on the street again. Fired. Fine for a wealthy twenty-something with an Ivy League education. Not so fine for a thirty-year-old legal secretary who’s also struggling through law school.......

Strings of Color

Life can grab a hold of you like captivating strings of color. It is a lesson that four women will learn as they each travel down a journey filled with lies, betrayal, and shocking secrets. Simone. Is immensely talented, yet everything she has ever known will be ripped apart. Her love will be tested.......

Author
Stephen C. Bird

Publisher
Hysterical Dementia

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Catastrophically Consequential

This prequel-sequel to “Hideous Exuberance” incorporates non-linear plots; comical rants and disturbing inner monologues; stream of consciousness dream sequences; psychedelic, surrealistic scenarios and time-traveling characters.......

Author
Sandra Levy Ceren

Publisher
Modern History Press

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Imposter for Hire: A Dr. Cory Cohen Mystery

An international intrigue with psychological twists and turns!

Psychologist Dr. Cory Cohen teams up again with private investigator Ben Fortuna. This time they're on a case involving an anorexic young mother and her Iranian husband, a prominent petroleum engineer.......