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Yankee Reconstructed
ISBN: 9780990797555 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,29 zł |
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Essie's Roses
ISBN: 9780990938323 / Angielski / Miękka / 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 planters 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 fathers small, cotton plantation; Delly, her sassy and beloved house slave; Essie Mae, her slave girl; and Evie Winthrop, Katherines only... 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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72,61 zł |
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Epitaph
ISBN: 9780996900621 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Viet Nam war has just ended, but the military now wants to embark on its third quest to acquisition even more farm and ranch land for special maneuvers in this traditionally agricultural region of Central Texas. Acquisition could mean the destruction of small cities, cemeteries, and the lives of its inhabitants who have toiled and cared for the land for generations. The landowners decide to form a coalition to fight the corporate/military land grab which they feel is unnecessary and they enlist the aid of a newcomer to their midst, a young black man who is trying to put into action... The Viet Nam war has just ended, but the military now wants to embark on its third quest to acquisition even more farm and ranch land for special m... |
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64,83 zł |
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The Rise of Caesar: A Slave Insurrection
ISBN: 9781519708755 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
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Free Town
ISBN: 9781522890690 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,02 zł |
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The Irregular Ordination of Preacher Jim
ISBN: 9781681810836 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a moonlit night in the summer of 1917 in a rural southwest Georgia town, a twelve-year-old Negro boy hears the senator s wife cry for help. He fights her attacker and saves her life. From that point forward he enjoys limitless favors from the couple. Soon he is a harmonica-playing, juke-jointing, moonshining gambler, whose hot temper gets him into one fight after another. According to one prominent person in his life, he is on an unalterable course to the grave. He tunes out all the unsolicited advice he receives about dropping his bad habits. That is until the cold winds of trying...
On a moonlit night in the summer of 1917 in a rural southwest Georgia town, a twelve-year-old Negro boy hears the senator s wife cry for help. He figh...
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69,38 zł |
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Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life
ISBN: 9780807050743 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson's newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950's. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred's outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers' complacency and condescension--and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to...
A new edition of Alice Childress's classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First publishe...
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86,11 zł |
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Lucas Lee, His Forebears and Descendants
ISBN: 9781630661885 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucas Lee survived unimaginable cruelty by making choices that no one should have to face. He did what had to be done and wreaked revenge on his persecutors. He discovered that not every Southern white person was evil and not every Yankee was motivated by noble thoughts of freedom for everyone. His descendants persisted and even prospered in the mist of humiliation. They found time for humor and enjoyment of life in spite of the racial prejudice that persists to this day.
Lucas Lee survived unimaginable cruelty by making choices that no one should have to face. He did what had to be done and wreaked revenge on his perse...
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49,85 zł |
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Pitch Weed
ISBN: 9781519767950 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1850, Lala King is a young mulatto woman, living and working in the mansion of New York's notorious Madame Lilli Mirceaux. Madame Mirceaux has been charged with murder by misadventure in the death of a desperate sixteen-year-old girl. After suffering years of abuse at the hands of Madame Lilli, and resentful at the control the woman wields over her son, Lala is empowered as her tormentor faces the loss of everything. Free to work and decide for herself and her son, Hi, for the first time in her life, Lala sets out boldly for the Five Points. Follow Lala's journey as she and Hi create a...
In 1850, Lala King is a young mulatto woman, living and working in the mansion of New York's notorious Madame Lilli Mirceaux. Madame Mirceaux has been...
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94,48 zł |
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Might Could Be
ISBN: 9780692617328 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Keely and Colt, the saga of the Culhane family continues with siblings Selena Culhane Colson and Hepburn Culhane as they make choices, define their lives and face the tragedies and triumphs during World War II and in post-war and pre-civil rights era America. One is led to the mean streets of L.A. and the other to a Parisian nightclub. With the Culhane legacy of dignity, tenacity and perseverance, they accomplish the unfathomable with the foundational richness of love of self, family and community as they tackle the world they've inherited, are forced to negotiate, and seek to improve,...
From Keely and Colt, the saga of the Culhane family continues with siblings Selena Culhane Colson and Hepburn Culhane as they make choices, define the...
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68,25 zł |
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Immortal Berliner: In the Bosom of the High John
ISBN: 9781519763662 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second book in the series, "A Chronicle of Kings" picks up eighteen years after the ending of Lala King's first person narrative, "Pitch Weed." We are are introduced to the voice of Berlin Balmaine King, who takes over as narrator for his grandmother "La," and presents himself as a keeper of truths. Berlin brings us penetrating observations, but opaque self-examination as he recalls the influence his family wields in the aftermath of Christmas Eve 1854. Discover more about the Third Eye Tabernacle of the Shackled in Christ Jesus and how the "True Path" movement grew from... This second book in the series, "A Chronicle of Kings" picks up eighteen years after the ending of Lala King's first person narrative, "Pitch Weed.... |
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94,48 zł |
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A Strange and Bitter Fruit: The Peacemaker
ISBN: 9781530175772 / Angielski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thrilling saga of the Powell family continues in A Strange and Bitter Fruit: The Peacemaker, a follow-up to the bestselling historical novel A Strange and Bitter Fruit. The book opens in 1913, seven years after the tragic conclusion of A Strange and Bitter Fruit. At the heart of The Peacemaker are four males, each consumed by anger and hate given the events portrayed in the previous novel. Robert Powell, son of the wronged Thomas "Tee" Powell, doggedly pursuing the elusive Wendell Pike, the last surviving Klansman of the group responsible for lynching Tee's parents and sisters. Clellon...
The thrilling saga of the Powell family continues in A Strange and Bitter Fruit: The Peacemaker, a follow-up to the bestselling historical novel A Str...
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74,72 zł |
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The Huge Green Rock
ISBN: 9781530137541 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a story about 5 teenage boys who are so fascinated with Black History that they start dreaming that they are taken back into major historical events in Black History, by standing on a huge green rock.
This book is a story about 5 teenage boys who are so fascinated with Black History that they start dreaming that they are taken back into major histor...
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68,30 zł |
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Bill Pickett: Bull Dogging King of the Rodeo
ISBN: 9781681790312 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Picket was the first African American inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. A superstar in his day, Pickett was a rodeo pioneer, credited with inventing the rodeo event, steer wrestling, also known as "bull dogging." His life story is as exciting and danger filled as any Western novel. A star on the Wild West show circuit, Pickett traveled the world and performed in front of thousands of spectators. His daring and deeds have put him in the record books and made him one of the most celebrated cowboys in Western lore. In...
Bill Picket was the first African American inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs. A ...
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53,18 zł |
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Seneca Village Henry's Adventure
ISBN: 9781522879817 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,42 zł |
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Summer Games
ISBN: 9781530257263 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1932 and America is circling the drain. An army of desperate veterans has surrounded the Capitol, strikes dot the map, and breadlines are a common sight. To lighten the national mood the 10th Olympic Summer Games beckon from sunny, dazzling, otherworldly Los Angeles. Four young black sophisticates from Washington, D.C. decide to make the road trip despite the violent racial climate. A vivid assortment of characters, a beautiful racketeer, a moral philosopher, a ruthless mastermind, an ambitious religious leader, and a government agent cross paths with the little band of reckless...
It is 1932 and America is circling the drain. An army of desperate veterans has surrounded the Capitol, strikes dot the map, and breadlines are a comm...
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68,30 zł |
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Sara's Song: The Julia Street Series Book 1
ISBN: 9781523379330 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sara Jameson was called Colored, Negro, Black and African American all in one lifetime. What others thought of her hardly mattered, she knew labels were often designed to confine, define, or malign. Sara chose to determine her own path, setting the large and small moments of life to music. She and her husband Ben, Chicago transplants, raised their children in Berkeley, California living with two wars, social injustice and opportunities beyond their wildest dreams as a backdrop. Why they chose Berkeley is anyone's guess. No doubt their story, when set to music, makes a seductive song.
Sara Jameson was called Colored, Negro, Black and African American all in one lifetime. What others thought of her hardly mattered, she knew labels we...
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31,88 zł |
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Windy City Blues
ISBN: 9781101991121 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution.
In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era in American History. But, for Leeba Groski, Chess Records was just where she worked... ... The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the ba...
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95,40 zł |
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The Forbidden Paradise
ISBN: 9781533183354 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jason Garrison, an ex-slave, tells the story of his family and of his distant twin sister Essie Mae, who is determined to obtain the happiness that society has denied her within 19th Century Virginia. It isn't until Essie ruins and almost destroys their family in her pursuit, that Jason grows and achieves what his sister couldn't.
Jason Garrison, an ex-slave, tells the story of his family and of his distant twin sister Essie Mae, who is determined to obtain the happiness that so...
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37,61 zł |
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Runaway
ISBN: 9781533258441 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of The Hanging Tree comes Runaway, an intimate tale of innocence, acceptance and freedom.
The year is 1863 and Joshua is a runaway slave who finds refuge on a farmstead in Missouri. Six year old Clara was born on the farm and is naive to the ways of the world. She abides there with her mother, Lizbet, and discovers Joshua hiding in the barn. Her father is absent, fighting for the Confederacy with Missouri guerrillas, and she soon forms an attachment with the unusual man whose presence she agrees to keep secret. However, not all secrets can be kept, despite best intentions.... From the author of The Hanging Tree comes Runaway, an intimate tale of innocence, acceptance and freedom.
The year is 1863 and Joshua is a runaway... |
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45,49 zł |
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