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Baker, Kyle. Nat Turner : [graphic novel] / K. Baker. – New York : Abrams Comicarts, [2016]. – 216 p. : il. – Bibliography: p. 203.

Nat Turner is the fascinating and action-packed true story of an American freedom fighter, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker as a graphic novel. The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion, which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement; to others he is a monster – a murderer whose name is never uttered. In Nat Turner, acclaimed author and illustrator Kyle Baker depicts the evils of slavery in this moving and historically accurate story of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion. Told nearly wordlessly, every image resonates with the reader as the brutal story unfolds.

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Emezi, Akwaeke. You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty : [novel] / A. Emezi. – London : Faber, 2023. – 312 p. – (A top five Sunday Times bestseller). 

Akwaeke Emezi reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. The main character, Feyi Adekola, wants to learn how to be alive again. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all – how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.

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Hoover, Colleen. Ugly love : [novel] / C. Hoover. – London [et al.] : Simon and Schuster, 2014. – 344 p. – (The Sunday Times bestselling author).

Ugly Love is a standalone contemporary romance. In the present, nurse Tate Collins agrees to a physical relationship with airline pilot Miles Archer. Alternating chapters gradually reveal why he refuses questions about his past or expectations of a future. The novel includes explicit sexual content, emotional withdrawal and manipulation, pregnancy, a car crash, drowning and the death of an infant. The official author catalog places it in the Mature 17+ category.

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Ng, Celeste. Our Missing Hearts : [novel] / C. Ng. – London : Abacus Books, 2023. – 338 p. – (New York Times Bestseller). 

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the novels Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

Our Missing Hearts is an old story made new, of the ways supposedly civilized communities can ignore the most searing injustice. It's about the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and the power of art to create change.Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn't know what happened to her, only that her books have been banned and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of heroic librarians, and finally to New York City, where he will finally learn the truth about what happened to his mother, and what the future holds for them both.

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Ng, Celeste. Everything i Never Told You : [novel] / C. Ng. – London : Abacus Books, 2014. – 316 p. – (The New York Times bestseller).

 “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.