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(0)Sheila Williams
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In early 1945, Dorothy and 800 African American WACs arrive at their post in England where they are tasked with processing mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces, and with their outlooks changed forever, return to the U.S. as the catalysts for change in America.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, entertaining, and refreshing take on the mother-daughter dyad and its ensuing complexities"--
Elise Armstrong, Carmen Bradshaw, and DeeDee Davis meet in a yoga class. Though vastly different, these women discover they all have one thing in common: their mothers have recently passed away. Becoming fast friends, the trio make a pact to help each other sort through the belongings their mothers' left behind. But when they find old letters...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's...
Series
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships - romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrow's series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecutre, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts...