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If You Like Kathryn Stockett's The Help, You Might Enjoy . . .
BOOK BUZZ: Kathyrn Stockett's The Help tells the story of the many African American women who kept white households running smoothly while laboring under the inhumane and inhospitable conditions of 1960s Mississippi. Here are some stories that share the themes of injustice, struggle and compassion. Check out our blogs and Staff Picks lists for more book, music and movie recommendations.
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Boyle, T. Coraghessan -
1996A freak accident causes two couples — a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegals — and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
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Brooks, Geraldine -
2011Bethia rails against a life of indentured servitude that is her lot as a woman in 17th century New England, and watches with admiration and envy as her friend Caleb becomes the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College.
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Cleave, Chris -
2009A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers — one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
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Durrow, Heidi -
2010Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
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Gee, Maggie -
2006Ten years after she has left the employ of a white, middle-class British family, Ugandan Mary Tendo is asked back to care for the household's only child. She returns to care for Justin, now a troubled young man, but her presence leads to a power struggle and unforseen tensions.
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Jones, Edward P. -
2003Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave, becomes the protege of a powerful white landowner and in turn prospers and buys his own slaves.
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Kidd, Sue Monk -
2010Lily Owens longs to learn the truth about her mother, so when her black caretaker Rosaleen insults three of the town's fiercest racists, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina, a place that holds the key to her mother's past. This is the story of a young girl's search for truth and her courage to confront racial barriers.
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Mayhew, Anna Jean -
2011In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie and her family take a road trip from North Carolina to Florida. They bring with them their black maid Mary Luther and as they make their way south, encounter racial tension and tragedy.
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Morrison, Toni -
2008In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly takes on Florens, a young slave girl who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love — first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith. A Mercy explores the human cost of slavery to both slave holders and the enslaved.
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Prose, Francine -
2005Charismatic Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow is taken aback when a rough-looking young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of Maslow's human rights foundation and declares that he wants to "save guys like me from becoming guys like me."
