Author : Bette Greene
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 9780671560058
En route to Germany in search of the maternal love she never had, eighteen-year-old Patty Bergen lingers in Paris and experiences her first love affair. A sequel to "Summer of My German Soldier."
Author : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1250276764
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER This edition includes illustrations by Everett Dyson From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. “Powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening.” -Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist “Crushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain.” -Isabel Wilkerson, bestselling author of Caste "Formidable, compelling...has much to offer on our nation’s crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward." -Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night’s events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation’s history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd’s death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters—each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney—Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life—and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson’s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.
Author : Greene Bette
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0141933097
When the train pulls into the station in Jenkensville, Arkansas, Patty Bergen senses something exciting is going to happen. German prisoners of war have arrived to make their new home in the prison camp. To the rest of the town these prisoners are only Nazis, but to Patty, a young Jewish girl with a turbulent home life, one of the young soldiers becomes an unlikely friend. Anton understands her in a way her parents never could and Patty is willing to lose her own family, friends and even freedom for a boy who becomes the most important part of her life.
Author : Edie Claire
Publisher : Stackhouse Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,24 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
First in the FATED LOVES collection: A ghostly romantic novel from USA-Today bestselling author Edie Claire. 4.5-Star, Romantic Times Top Pick and winner of the Road to Romance Reviewer’s Choice Award! Downloaded over two million times worldwide. Years and distance kept the memories at bay. But back at home, the past is ready and waiting to haunt her... Eighteen years have passed since Joy's childhood best friend, Jenny, met her death in a tragic car accident just a few days after their senior prom. A broken Joy left their small Kentucky hometown shortly after -- determined never to come back. But when her father's illness forces her to return, she realizes that neither time nor distance has truly healed her troubled soul. Plagued with nightmares of the accident and crippled by a vague fear whose source she can't identify, Joy realizes that in order to move on she must face the truth behind several disturbing gaps in her memory of that fateful spring. But the only person who can help her is a man she despises: Jenny's erstwhile boyfriend Jeff, now a respected doctor, whose carelessness as a teenager was the cause of Jenny's horrendous death -- and Joy's own emotional destruction. Can she ever forgive? She may have no choice but to try. Because both the danger she sensed -- and the childhood friendship she treasured -- now suddenly seem very much alive... “LONG TIME COMING is a remarkably well blended romance and mystery, with fascinating shades of the paranormal. The way each layer of Joy's discovery of her forgotten past is revealed is deftly done and exceptionally suspenseful. The relationship between Joy and her parents is heart warming. This one will have you hooked from the first page.” December 2003 Top Pick. Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine “An abundance of charm… Joy’s perky first-person narration carries readers along to a warm, gratifying conclusion.” -- Publisher’s Weekly “Emotionally gripping, suspenseful and superb… I was held in wonderment over much of this story and realized early on to expect the unexpected. This is a story of trust, love, friendship and healing. Ms. Claire is an author I hope to see more of in the future. If Long Time Coming is any indication of her writing talent, I will be first in line at the bookstores to get more of her work. This is a positively splendid tale from start to finish and is highly recommended.” Reviewer’s Choice Award -- Road to Romance “Two words. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! Edie Claire has written a wonderful novel about friendship, love, guilt and death… Utterly riveting.” Rating: 10/10 -- Contemporary Romance Writers “Claire's charming romance disproves the adage that you can't go home again.” -- Booklist “A book of healing, understanding, rebirth, and finally growing up. A story that you won't forget easily... I could only sigh in appreciation as I turned the final page.” -- Romance Reviews Today “Intense, well-written and thought-provoking.” -- Old Book Barn Gazette “A most fantastic novel… When the story comes to an end and the lights have been lowered… and the reader is left with a longing to know more... there is no better compliment to the author.” -- Romance Junkies Originally published in 2003 by Warner Books (Warner Forever).
Author : Vanessa Miller
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426707681
Deidre Clark-Morris has a loving husband and beautiful home, but no children. Kenisha Smalls lives in poverty and has three children by three different men. After Kenisha is told she has inoperable cervical cancer, the relationship between these two women becomes a catalyst of hope.
Author : Bette Greene
Publisher : Starfire
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780553273540
In a sequel to "Summer of My German Soldier, " Patty, now 18, decides to go to Germany in search of Anton's mother, desperate for a connection to the man she loved and lost. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Arnold Weinstein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0679604472
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein’s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing’s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood—Huck Finn’s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child’s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff’s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens’s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle—growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers also ponder the lessons learned in life’s twilight years: both King Lear and Willy Loman suffer as their patriarchal authority collapses and death creeps up; Brecht’s Mother Courage displays the inspiring indomitability of an aging woman who has “borne every possible blow. . . but is still standing, still moving.” And older love can sometimes be funny (Rip Van Winkle conveniently sleeps right through his marriage) and sometimes tragic (as J. M. Coetzee’s David Lurie learns the hard way, in Disgrace). Tapping into the hearts and minds of memorable characters, from Sophocles’ Oedipus to Artie in Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Morning, Noon, and Night makes an eloquent and powerful case for the role of great literature as a knowing window into our lives and times. Its intelligence, passion, and genuine appreciation for the written word remind us just how crucial books are to the business of being human.
Author : Joey Contreras
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category :
ISBN :
The crime scene was bloody and tragic. The bodies of a married couple lay crumpled in their home: the wife, a beauty with no enemies, the husband, a hardened gang member. Was the crime gang-related? Drug-related? Or was it a crime of passion?The case is assigned to young, rising prosecutor, Jesse Martinez, after a suspect is identified. For longtime detective, Joshua Crow, the case is open and shut. But Jesse Martinez grew up on the same tough streets where the crime occurred and he has doubts that things are as they appear. Perhaps the crime has hit too close to home for Martinez. Maybe Martinez's knowledge of Houston's Northside neighborhood creates conflicts that he can't overcome. Sunday Morning Coming Down, with its twists and unpredictability, will leave the reader on edge as it explores the drug trade, violent gang life, and the transition Martinez makes from crime-ridden streets to esteemed lawyer. The story culminates with a courtroom scene no one sees coming.Two sequels to Sunday Morning Coming Down have been completed. Look for From Darkness, Light and A Fiery Dusk soon.
Author : Kylie Henry
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 37,43 MB
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 154629600X
Janice has escaped, she finally plucked up the courage to leave him and do something about her sorry excuse for an existence. Make a better life for herself. But has Gregg really let her get away that easily? Or is he just taking his time and making sure things are absolutely perfect..........
Author : Marvin Bram
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1458315592
""If you study the past, you won't repeat its mistakes."" That's a hopeful sentiment, but as a formula for moving forward humanely, it's largely useless. A useful appeal to history would adopt the old saying, ""The farther you back up, the better you jump forward."" But the past to which most historians appeal doesn't go back far enough.The long time coming will be the time of living full lives as individuals while living in harmony with others as communities. Everything we need to do to bring that world about we've already done. We must only add humanity's prehistory to its history. It may come as a surprise that all the elements of a humane future can be found in this expanded timeframe, but it's the case. When we synthesize the life-serving aspects of the deep past with those of the recent past, we'll much shorten the time before the world we deserve comes into being.THE LONG TIME COMING attempts such a synthesis.
