Del Norte Public Library

"Magnolia Brown is nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, her predatory landlord, and the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around with a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. She accepts. But despite things...

When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.

A child celebrates his eighth birthday with all the people of a fantasied African community.

When seventeen-year-old Denny, who is black, falls in love with his white stepsister and her father throws him out, he drives cross-country to find his own father, whom he barely knows.

In the town of Kingsbridge, a Gothic cathedral and the priory are at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge. Proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, as the Black Death captures the city

Sarie struggles when she reads aloud in class in her South African school, but then she and her friend Auntie Anna find a book about Cinderella in Auntie Anna's old car and begin to read together.

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies, Ify, now nineteen and a medical administrator, must return to wartorn Nigeria, where she last saw her sister, to investigate why young refugees from that nation are carrying a deadly virus. 2181. It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is living a comfortable life in the Space Colonies as a medical administrator. Back in Nigeria, Uzo, a young synth, helps an aid worker, Xifeng, restore...

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

"Friday nights in Peachtree Cove are all about football. But this season, the drama isn't just on the field... In the wake of losing both of her parents, Halle Parker was certain of one thing: she wanted a family of her own. And she wasn't going to let a little thing like being single stand in her way. So, she used an anonymous donor and kept every last detail a secret--from everyone. But now, fourteen years later, Halle's daughter, Shania, is determined...