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A Book with a Color in the Title Read More Reading Challenge 2019 |
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White Chrysanthemum
by Mary Lynn Bracht
Having spent her entire youth under Japanese occupation, a young woman in World War II-era Korea follows in her mother's footsteps as an elite female diver only to be forced into prostitution in order to save her beloved younger sister, who decades later resolves to find healing and closure from the ghosts of the past.
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Red Sister
by Mark Lawrence
Entering a convent where girls are selected to train in either religion, combat or magic, Nona, while training in combat, finds herself at the center of an epic battle for empire on the outer reaches of a dying universe. By the international best-selling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War Trilogies.
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Raven Black
by Ann Cleeves
When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the past. Winner of the 2006 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award.
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Purple Hibiscus
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Growing up in a wealthy Nigerian home with a tyrannical father, Kambili and her brother, find happiness during a visit to their Aunty Ifeoma, but as Kambili enjoys her freedom and falls in love, the country begins to fall under a military coup.
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Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales from the Twentieth Century
by Muireann Maguire
An English-language anthology of ghost stories, supernatural thrillers and other gothic tales from Russia includes 11 vintage pieces by such leading 20th-century writers as Valery Bryusov, Mikhail Bulgakov and Aleksandr Grin and offers insight into the impact of revolution, civil war and political change on period literature.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
The story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, who ran her father's plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina in the 1700s and struck a bargain with the plantation's slaves--teach her how to make indigo and she would teach them to read.
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half-century follows two families--the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire--as they make their way in modern England. A first novel.
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Red Sparrow
by Jason Matthews
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash, with whom she engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers and the security of America's most valuable mole in Moscow.
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