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Black Girl, White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates. Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift, an assertive 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia, her former roommate, Genna, begins an unofficial inquiry into her death. In reconstructing the girls' tumultuous freshman year at the college, Genna is lead also to reconstruct her life as the daughter of a famous "radical-hippie-lawyer" of the 1960s. Black Girl, White Girl is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War.

Freedom in the Family: a Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due. Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s. During the course of their seperate and remarkable journeys, the two women find themselves incarcerated and on the front lines as the struggle for equality rages in the segregated South.

Dreaming the Eagle by Manda Scott. Breaca Nic Graine comes of age and proves her brilliance in battle, catapulting her to the forefront of her tribesmen, who will rename her Boudica, "She Who Brings Victory."

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.

Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines. This fictional autobiography tells the story of a remarkable African American woman born in slavery on a Louisiana plantation who is freed after the Civil War and lives another one hundred years to see the second emancipation. Also on Cassette.

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