Somewhere Different Now by Donna Peizer: Somewhere Different Now is a heart-warming story of two precocious teens, one black, one white, who cleave to their hard-won friendship as societal racism threatens to tear them apart. It’s a few years after the end of World War II. White middle-class Annie Cahill and Clydeen Hollifield, a black girl, recently arrived from the cotton fields of Texas, meet by pure coincidence.
This book is Free on August 14, 2022
Tears of the Gumbo Limbo by Wayne Watkins: The Calusa were an indigenous tribe who lived on the West coast of Florida for thousands of years. They developed sophisticated art, music, and a military that never lost to the Spanish. A story of the beauty of nature and its uncompromising rules. But mostly just a love story.
This book is Free on August 14, 2022