October TBR

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Today I want to share the books I want to finish this month. For this month I want to finally finish the books that I stop reading because I was focused in finish the audiobook of “Rise to the Sun” by Leah Johnson.

You can find The Weight of Blood, The Beauty of Your Face and The Dragons, the Giant, the Women on Scribd.
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Title: Lovely War
Author: Julie Berry
Genre: fiction, historical fiction, young adult, romance
Trigger warnings: sexual assault, racism, hate crimes, PTSD, gun violence, lynching, war, battle scenes, violence, grief, mental illness
Format: Physical book

They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past.
Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it’s no match for the transcendent power of Love. 

Title: The Weight of Blood
Author: Tiffany D. Jackson
Genre: fiction, horror, thriller, young adult, mystery
Trigger warnings: gore, bullying, racism, violence, ableism, blood, toxic friendship, murder, racial slurs, abandonment, classism, gun violence, police brutality, emotional abuse
Format: Audiobook

When Springville residents – at least the ones still aliv – are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation… Maddy did it.
An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she’s dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.
After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High’s racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school’s first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it’s possible to have a normal life.
But some of her classmates aren’t done with her just yet. And what they don’t know is that Maddy still has another secret… one that will cost them all their lives.

Title: The Beauty of Your Face
Author: Sahar Mustafah
Genre: fiction, contemporary, literary fiction, historical fiction, adult
Trigger warnings: racism, gun violence, islamophobia, murder, xenophobia, prejudice, grief, mental illness, addiction, attempted suicide, misogyny
Format: Ebook

Afaf Rahman, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is the principal of Nurrideen School for Girls, a Muslim school in the Chicago suburbs.
One morning, a shooter – radicalized by the online alt-right-attacks the school.
As Afaf listens to his terrifying progress, we are swept back through her memories: the bigotry she faced as a child, her mother’s dreams of returning to Palestine, and the devastating disappearance of her older sister that tore her family apart.
Still, there is the sweetness of the music from her father’s oud, and the hope and community Afaf finally finds in Islam.

Title: The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
Author: Wayétu Moore
Genre: memoir, nonfiction
Trigger warnings: war, kidnapping, gun violence, violence, xenophobia, racial slurs, racism, torture, addiction, bullying, rape
Format: Audiobook

When Way tu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia.
The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai. Finally, a rebel soldier smuggles them across the border to Sierra Leone, reuniting the family and setting them off on yet another journey, this time to the United States.
Spanning this harrowing journey in Moore’s early childhood, her years adjusting to life in Texas as a black woman and an immigrant, and her eventual return to Liberia, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women is a deeply moving story of the search for home in the midst of upheaval.

Note: The information was taken from the storygraph