Author : Cid Ricketts Sumner
Publisher : Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company [1949]
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Mississippi
ISBN :
The reactions of a southern white girl who discovers her unborn child will inherit Negro blood.
Author : Cid Ricketts Sumner
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1787203883
Originally published in 1949, this book tells the story of a Southern white girl and her reaction when she discovers that her unborn child will inherit Negro blood. Bentley Carr grew up without knowing she was a very pretty girl. Daughter of a seamstress in a Mississippi town, she felt overwhelmed when she became the bride of Philip Churston of Cedar Bluff plantation. She was happy when she knew she was to bear him a child. Happy—until she discovered why the whisper ran about the Churstons: a strain of Negro blood in the family! That was why Philip was cold to the coming heir; why there were never any visitors at Cedar Bluff. Her dilemma faced her starkly: must she, too, learn to live a lie? “Grace in the writing, warm appreciation of the emotional involvements, and of the relationship between background and action....”—W. K. Rugg, Christian Science Monitor
Author : Billy Lombardo
Publisher : Tortoise Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1948954265
Alan and Audrey Taylor are an ordinary married couple raising three children and coping with the demands of busy careers when the unthinkable happens: their eldest daughter, Isabel, on the verge of precocious womanhood, goes missing in the middle of the night. Thus begins this intimate portrait of a barely functioning family as Alan, Audrey and their two young sons are left to decipher the mysteries of how to go on living and loving––in the aftermath of violence and loss. A haunting, sometimes raw exploration of grief, Morning Will Come is also by turns humorous and sexy, exploring the bonds of brotherhood and the redemptive power of love. Originally published as How to Hold a Woman by Dzanc Books in 2009, this revised edition is being published in 2020 by Tortoise Books as part of their New Chicago Classics series.
Author : Mark Alder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 623 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681770997
England, 1337: Edward III is beset on all sides. He needs a victory against the French to rescue his throne, but he's outmanned. King Philip VI can put 50,000 men in the field, but he is having his own problems: he has sent his priests to summon the angels themselves to fight for France, but the angels refuse to fight, and Philip won't engage the battle without the backing of the angels.As England and France head toward certain war, Edward yearns for God's favor but as a usurper, can't help but worry—what if God truly is on the side of the French? Edward could call on Lucifer and open the gates of Hell and take an unholy war to France...for a price. Mark Adler breathes fresh and imaginative life into the Hundred Years War in this sweeping historical epic.
Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393340368
“To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language.”—Ben Schott Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Steeple Bumphleigh is a very picturesque place. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the appalling Aunt Agatha but also her husband, the terrifying Lord Worplesdon. So when a certain amount of familial arm-twisting is applied, Bertie heads for the sticks in fear and trepidation despite the support of the irreplaceable Jeeves.
Author : David Moody
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 125010842X
In One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning, David Moody returns to the world of his Hater trilogy with a new fast-paced, and wonderfully dark story about humanity’s fight for survival in the face of the impending apocalypse. The fewer left alive, the higher the stakes. Kill the others, before one of them kills you. Fourteen people are trapped on Skek, a barren island in the middle of the North Sea somewhere between the coasts of the UK and Denmark. Over the years this place has served many purposes—a fishing settlement, a military outpost, a scientific base—but one by one its inhabitants have abandoned its inhospitable shores. Today it’s home to Hazleton Adventure Experiences, an extreme sports company specializing in corporate team building events. Life there is fragile and tough. One slip is all it takes. A momentary lapse leads to a tragic accident, but when the body count quickly starts to rise, questions are inevitably asked. Are the deaths coincidental, or something else entirely? Those people you thought you knew, can you really trust them? Is the person standing next to you a killer? Will you be their next victim? A horrific discovery changes everything, and a trickle of rumors becomes a tsunami of fear. Is this the beginning of the end of everything, or a situation constructed by the mass hysteria of a handful of desperate and terrified people?
Author : Angela Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178478771X
With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America’s most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis’s arrest and imprisonment—the political prisoner. Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.
Author : Sid Huggins
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1600347754
"Morning Will Come" addresses man's deepest struggles and inspires hope. The author, an experienced pastor, gives wonderful contemporary examples of the Risen Christ's transforming presence and promises. (Practical Life)
Author : Keith Hellwig
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1457554712
Morning Will Come is the tense story of a man caught in a compromise between life and death, and his choice as the instrument of that compromise. In a story taken from the headlines of today’s news, author Keith Hellwig provides a realistic view of the challenges that every Police Officer may be confronted with, and the toll that the challenge may exact. Through his experience and training, Keith takes you to a place few people ever have to experience.
Author : Terry E. Hill
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622860276
After the death of her husband, Pastor Hezekiah Cleaveland, Samantha has been installed as the interim pastor of New Testament Cathedral. She's also become the head of the international television ministry, but not everyone is happy about it. Danny St. John was having an affair with Samantha's husband before he was assassinated in the pulpit one Sunday. Danny is convinced that Samantha had her husband murdered, and he wants revenge. Cynthia Pryce, the wife of the church's assistant pastor, Reverend Percy Pryce, wants to see her husband become the church's permanent pastor. She's working behind the scenes to see that Samantha is removed from the position. Gideon Truman, a well-known investigative reporter, believes that solving the murder of Pastor Cleaveland will establish his career as the black Anderson Cooper. He starts rummaging through the skeletons in Samantha's closet in his quest for the truth. Danny, Cynthia, and Gideon all desire to take Samantha down for different reasons. They might be underestimating the cunning and dangerous nature of their prey, though. Samantha has a secret that she's willing to go to any length to protect, and she doesn't care who she has to destroy in the process.
