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Omaha Custom Lists: Emotional or Action-Packed Page Turners 2/20
"This list was created by librarians at Omaha Public Library for an adult patron who enjoyed "Things Fall Apart", "A Thousand Splendid Suns", and "This Boy's Life". They are looking for an emotional or action-packed bo..."
Author's memoir of growing up black in the 1930's and 1940's.
In her 1995 memoir The Liars' Club, a wickedly funny account of her apocalyptic childhood in East Texas, Mary Karr introduced us to her brawling, loving family: a bohemian mother married seven times, twice to her father; her wicked,...
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape...
"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of...