Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> African American & Black - Historical

2017 Reprint of 1939 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.  William Attaway is best known for his novel Blood on the Forge (1941), a novel with black characters about migration to the industrial North.  Let Me Breathe Thunder shares many of the themes of proletarian struggle and economic determinism demonstrated in his later work.  Let Me Breathe Thunder is a simply told story of migrant workers on the road caught in a predetermined universe of tragic proportions. Naturalistic in...

A mysterious elderly stranger, dressed in the style of a late 19th century preacher, struggles on foot through a Colorado snowstorm. Freezing, wet and weary, he comes to a country roadhouse bar and grill. As the evening progresses, the storm intensifies.
Jeremiah Walters, a onetime radio Storyteller, becomes snowbound with three remaining patrons and the roadhouse waitress. As midnight approaches, he shares the tale of Louisiana moonshiners, in 'Bayou Moon', and Quentin Dubois' date with 'Gruesome Gertie', Louisiana's portable electric chair.
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Arkansas Summer is a powerful novel about love and racial terror in the Jim Crow South.

It's 1955, and Catherine has joined her father in Arkansas after her grandfather's death. She's a California college student, and it's her first visit to her grandparents' farm since the summer she was nine. When she is reunited with Jimmy, whom she'd played with as a child, the two are immediately drawn to one another. They understand the dangers of their interracial attraction, but could never have imagined the far-reaching consequences of their untimely...

The suicide of the rebellious enslaved Ruby changes both the slave quarters and the consciousness of the enslaved women; but mostly forces the enslaved midwife Pearl to face the moral dilemma involved in birthing children who will be condemned to a life of enslavement.

A peaceful Sunday morning on the Bellamy plantation is disrupted by the suicide of the rebellious Ruby, wife of the hated driver Sam. This event throws the plantation into chaos when the spirit of Ruby returns to produce havoc on the plantation. Ruby’s death most affects the midwife who has become her surrogate...

Nashville Burning presents characters caught up in...

The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.

Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth's beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school.

When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying,...

A searing, sensual novel with photographs, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be weaves together southern fabulism and gothic fury, pulling at the restless, volatile threads of seditious American iconoclasts Zora Neale Hurston, Patti Smith, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. At this devil's crossroads of the King James Bible and the Egyptian Book of the Dead emerge the ghosts and realities of sex, race, violence, and hauntingly vulnerable emotion. Quintan Ana Wikswo has written an unforgettable and relentless reinvestigation of the American soul.

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My Dream of Florence Ballard: A Detroit Rose was developed from my mom telling me all these wonderful stories of Motown music in the 1960s. She remembered Florence Ballard when she lived in Detroit. I would ask my mom about it when I was a child growing up. I would say, “Mom, please tell me the stories of Florence Ballard,” and my mom would say, “Oh, you want to hear another Flo story.” Flo was Florence Ballard’s nickname. It is short for Florence. My mom would light up her cigarette and tell me such beautiful stories of Florence Ballard. I would be mesmerized...

Three lifelong friends – Ben, Levi, and Tracy – take very different paths after high school, but all have brushes with danger and war. What happens in war? Only injury, if one is lucky.

This powerful novel tells of Levi’s war with family tragedy and alcoholism, of Ben’s war with rage, and Tracy and Levi’s Vietnam War experiences. Ben is called to treat the wounds of war, both with his friend Levi, and in his professional role as an organizational consultant.

This unusual combination of prequel/sequel to author Nick Mann’s 2013 debut novel,...