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What Many Men Desire
ISBN: 9780692256848 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Audrey Simmons-part African-American, part white, part Cherokee-is young, talented, and unusually attractive. She's determined to make her name in the fashion world. But it's 1936-if she's to have any chance at success, she must "pass" for white in her work life. Ignoring the possible dangers, and despite her straight-laced upbringing, Audrey accepts the offer of a "gentleman" to be his assistant on a trip to England, First Class, aboard the new ocean liner, the Queen Mary. For her, it's an irresistible chance to get to the heart of fashion-London and Paris. But her eyes are opened on this...
Audrey Simmons-part African-American, part white, part Cherokee-is young, talented, and unusually attractive. She's determined to make her name in the...
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Incidents In The Life of a Girl: The Unattainable Mulatto
ISBN: 9781500737573 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Revisionist Lamont Tanksley Sr. introduces his debut novel. Revised from Harriet Jacobs' original 1861 book, 'Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl', Tanksley creates a substantially differing tale. When inherited by an owner "who asks for what he could take," a young lesbian mulatto slave battles wits with her master and his jealous wife to maintain her sanity, dignity, and virginity. While seeking her freedom and running from trouble, she stumbles upon herself. In desperation, Linda...
Charlotte Press 2014 Revisionist Writer Award and a 2014 Pitch Perfect Pick from Underground Book Reviews. Revisionist Lamont Tanksley Sr. introduces ...
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60,69 |
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Mama Lacee
ISBN: 9781502330659 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the Twenties, Mama Lacee is in her 80's, she's been the local healer longer than most people have been alive, she's seen it all...good and bad.
It's the Twenties, Mama Lacee is in her 80's, she's been the local healer longer than most people have been alive, she's seen it all...good and bad.
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40,47 |
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Just Imagine..A World Without the Contributions of Black People
ISBN: 9781499068535 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What a fun way to learn and remember some of America's forgotten African American history as told in an easy to read storytelling format. Marvin and Faja are in pursuit to learn more about African American history while experiencing what life would be like if there were no Black people in the world.
What a fun way to learn and remember some of America's forgotten African American history as told in an easy to read storytelling format. Marvin and F...
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88,98 |
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Wilhelmina: An Imagined Memoir
ISBN: 9780692227954 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,51 |
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The Heroic Slave: A Cultural and Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780300184624 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washington, who, along with eighteen others, took control of the slave ship Creole in November 1841 and sailed it to Nassau in the British colony of the Bahamas, where they could live free. This new critical edition, ideal for classroom use, includes the full text of Douglass's fictional recounting of the most successful slave revolt in...
First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, The Heroic Slave is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social...
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51,50 |
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The Chit'lin Coast: A Tale of Growing Up Black and Female in Mid-Twentieth Century Chicago
ISBN: 9781502307910 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,35 |
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The Hidden Hills Saga: Book I: Ice Whispers
ISBN: 9781502953797 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slavery of a different kind, beyond physical chains, leads to a different type of escape . . . Marissa Kristofferson can taste freedom. Her long years of suffering at the hands of her sadistic husband, Lance, are coming to an end as he lies dying. But she is stunned when he reveals the contents of his will and what she must do to keep Kristofferson Plantation, and how he plans to keep her bound to him even beyond the grave. The beautiful slave Lolley has always envied Marissa's life, and after learning that the master has also ordered her freed after his death, she is determined to reach for...
Slavery of a different kind, beyond physical chains, leads to a different type of escape . . . Marissa Kristofferson can taste freedom. Her long years...
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52,56 |
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Breed
ISBN: 9781478733645 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,90 |
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The Regal Episodes
ISBN: 9781500976064 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ralph was in awe of his father for his traditional leadership and the pomp and the pageantry that was part and parcel of the package of Chieftaincy. He lives a semi-royal life as the townspeople doted on him for being one of the chief's sons. But the package also included other elements of a traditional leader of the town - the fetish priests, the shines and lesser gods. Ralph was in awe of his mother, the Christian woman whose father was blinded in one eye by a falling mortar as he volunteered his masonry services in the construction of a church. Ralph's parents married long before his...
Ralph was in awe of his father for his traditional leadership and the pomp and the pageantry that was part and parcel of the package of Chieftaincy. H...
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The Secret Life of Lucy Bosman
ISBN: 9781505482751 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's Gone With the Wind meets Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl. Lucy Bosman is a shrewd business woman in a day and time not too amenable to the dreams and desires of women - especially colored women. The widow of an ex-slave and well-educated, the mulatto woman had great plans to start over and make a life for herself when she left her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee and headed further South in the spring of 1860. Two years later, Lucy is planted firmly in Richmond, Virginia, running a successful business while passing as a white woman and avoiding the personal attentions and promises...
It's Gone With the Wind meets Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl. Lucy Bosman is a shrewd business woman in a day and time not too amenable to the d...
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Mississippi Jangle: Pecans in Washtubs (Book 2)
ISBN: 9781505977424 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder has hit the small Mississippi town again, turning it from a town of odyssey to a town of turmoil. This time, no one has a clue who is doing the killings, but the old women are not willing to let their town go without a fight. Join Heattie and Luceen again as they take on yet another life changing event. As they encounter growing pains, they also encounter life on another level. There is more Jangle going on in the small Mississippi town.
Murder has hit the small Mississippi town again, turning it from a town of odyssey to a town of turmoil. This time, no one has a clue who is doing the...
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Human Cattle
ISBN: 9780988786790 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human Cattle is a powerful saga of three generations of slave women. Set in 1857 by Liberty Dendron, Human Cattle digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the South full circle-from concealment to recovery. A powerful masterwork of passion and scholarship. A stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long, dark history of slavery in America. Human Cattle forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American white supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's; slavery also created a...
Human Cattle is a powerful saga of three generations of slave women. Set in 1857 by Liberty Dendron, Human Cattle digs deep to bring the story of slav...
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OLE Freedom
ISBN: 9781634902182 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,78 |
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Ulysses' Diaries
ISBN: 9781498425841 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,91 |
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Essie's Roses
ISBN: 9780990938309 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in the Deep South during the years leading to the Civil War, two young girls find freedom on a hillside overlooking Westland, an Alabama plantation. Essie Mae, an intuitive, intelligent slave girl, and Evie Winthrop, the sheltered, imaginative dreamer and planter's daughter, strike up a secret friendship that thrives amidst the shadows of abuse. Told from the viewpoint of four women: Katherine Winthrop, kind mistress and unexpected heiress to her father's small, cotton plantation; Delly, her sassy and beloved house slave; Essie Mae, her slave girl; and Evie Winthrop, Katherine's...
Growing up in the Deep South during the years leading to the Civil War, two young girls find freedom on a hillside overlooking Westland, an Alabama pl...
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The Truth About Awiti
ISBN: 9780692287736 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they are retaliation by restless spirits impacted by one of the darkest chapters of world history-the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Awiti's destiny was forever changed the day the slave raiders arrived at her village. She made a life-altering decision with the hope of being reunited with her family, only to discover her effort was in vain. For centuries, her sadness raged within the winds and rain, resulting in tropical storms that devastated the South....
There is a commonly held belief the tropical storms and hurricanes that form off the coast of West Africa are not natural disasters, but rather they a...
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Girl Singer
ISBN: 9781935248736 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fast-paced narrative. . . . compelling and intense reading, by turns funny, tender, and horrifying, "Girl Singer "is the real deal a captivating, well-told tale." Fred Kasten, Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist "Carlon is a natural heir of Robert Louis Stevenson. If you like good fiction, you'll like "Girl Singer."" Brian Morton, "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" "Carlon is a unique educational force, bringing young readers into the pleasures and drama of jazz." Nat Hentoff, "Jazz Country," " Boston Bay," etc. "An arresting and wonderful story that communicates through a deep... "A fast-paced narrative. . . . compelling and intense reading, by turns funny, tender, and horrifying, "Girl Singer "is the real deal a captivating... |
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The Last Buffalo Soldier
ISBN: 9781511517997 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his third novel, Michael S. Nuckols tells the poignant story of an African-American soldier who survives the war in Europe only to encounter violent racism in the Deep South. After being assigned to Fort Benning in rural Georgia, First-Sergeant Willis Atkins finds that he must fight for the respect that he earned during the war in France. As crosses burn, Truman integrates the Army, and the nation fights for its soul, Willis struggles to reconcile an old passion and a new love.
In his third novel, Michael S. Nuckols tells the poignant story of an African-American soldier who survives the war in Europe only to encounter violen...
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The Slave Shack: The Book of Mumboo Conteh
ISBN: 9781511540575 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Book of Mumboo Conteh is a work of fiction. But it could have been a biography. It could have been the story of any one of the thousands of peaceful Africans who were brutally ripped from their homes and families and taken to colonial America to serve the lust and greed of their brutal masters. Mumboo's story is a story within a story. The main character in Slave Shack is Marcel Wilder. Marcel is a modern day construction worker who is injured on a job in Atlanta. Although Marcel Wilder and Mumboo Conteh lived in different centuries, their lives become bound together and inseparable....
The Book of Mumboo Conteh is a work of fiction. But it could have been a biography. It could have been the story of any one of the thousands of peacef...
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60,29 |
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