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Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Carole is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year when...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In Atlanta, a black woman searches for her missing son with help from volunteers of the city's committee to stop child murders. Suspected is a Ku Klux Klan porn ring. A look at the lot of the black working class in urban America.
3) Ella no está
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Una niña desaparecida, una madre presa de la desesperación, una llamada que trae de vuelta los fantasmas del pasado a un presente desgarrador Joy Fielding combina con maestría los ingredientes precisos en una apasionante novela de suspense psicológico.
4) Sarah rising
Author
Publisher
Beaming Books, an imprint of 1517 Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the Minneapolis uprising after the killing of George Floyd, this story follows a little Black girl attending a protest with her father and realizing that she has the power to protect what and whom she loves. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.