This Bitter Earth

This Bitter EarthBy: Bernice L. McFadden This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFaddens bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her familys past. When Sugar Lacey returns to Short Junction to find the aunts who raised her, she hopes they will be able to tell her the truth about her parents. What she discovers is not just a terrible story of

The Lost Stone

as is this book

drawing concern

and then—oy vey

bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Produced by President Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and streaming on Netflix

you’ll go where the trainees go

Or that there's a pig that loves to paint

—From the foreword by Michael Moore

By: Miranda James   | Series: Cat in the Stacks Mystery Librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must catalog a killer in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series

Carter has grown distant as she questions Kennedy's innocence

or walking the tightrope in a circus