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From Rum To Roots
ISBN: 9780989216104 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,55 zł |
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Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang
ISBN: 9781611170443 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociological investigation. This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak s narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences that trapped many southern... The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociol...
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127,75 zł |
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The Peach Seed
ISBN: 9781466401129 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Peach Seed needs no comparison to other books it stands alone in its telling of a tragic yet triumphant story. A story that starts with a tranquil old-timey feel to the narrative that grows and expands with the reader. Adelia Wade is a reluctant psychic who doesn't intervene when her son E. J. joins the Marine Corps completely unaware of the tragic fate that awaits him. His brother Bobby who hates his decision, sees 1968 America in a totally different light wondering if E. J. joined for all the wrong reasons. Adelia won't accept the news of E. J.'s death when a uniformed officer knocks on...
The Peach Seed needs no comparison to other books it stands alone in its telling of a tragic yet triumphant story. A story that starts with a tranquil...
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91,69 zł |
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Freeman
ISBN: 9781932841640 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Upon learning of Lee's surrender, Sam--a runaway slave who once worked for the Union Army--decides to leave his safe haven in Philadelphia and set out on foot to return to the war-torn South. What compels him on this almost-suicidal course is the desire to find his wife, the mother of his only child, whom he and their son left behind 15 years earlier on the Mississippi farm to which they all "belonged." At the same time,...
Freeman, the new novel by Leonard Pitts, Jr., takes place in the first few months following the Confederate surrender and the assassination of ...
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78,62 zł |
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Yonder Lies Josiah's Gold: The possibility of America's first Successful Prospector
ISBN: 9781470194611 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slave miners prior to 1860 who freed themselves from slavery with great prospecting skills. Josiah learned about gold from his grandfather. His skills took him through Gold Rushes in Georgia, North Carolina, California and Colorado.
Slave miners prior to 1860 who freed themselves from slavery with great prospecting skills. Josiah learned about gold from his grandfather. His skills...
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45,63 zł |
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Buffalo Soldier: Homecoming
ISBN: 9781475276688 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Second in the YA history series about the Buffalo Soldiers in the American west.
Second in the YA history series about the Buffalo Soldiers in the American west.
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31,88 zł |
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Chronicles of a Slave Girl: A Slave Narrative
ISBN: 9781482358568 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the rather unique saga of Mary, the beautiful mulatto woman, who has been led to believe that because of her mixed blood, fair complexion and straight hair she has an advantage over dem Afreecans of less stature, and who slave in the masters fields from can't see in the morning 'til can't see at night and who can hardly speak the language. Not only can she speak the language she can read it. This and a host of other issues, like growing up in the big house lead Mary to truly believe that she is better than the other slaves and especially the Africans. But a series of events brings her...
This is the rather unique saga of Mary, the beautiful mulatto woman, who has been led to believe that because of her mixed blood, fair complexion and ...
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91,69 zł |
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Blake; Or, the Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
ISBN: 9780674088726 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed American--works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake's escape from a southern plantation and his subsequent travels across the United States, into Canada, and to Africa and Cuba. His mission is to unite the black populations of the American Atlantic regions, both free and slave, in the struggle for freedom, whether through insurrection or through emigration and the creation of an independent black state. Blake is a rhetorical masterpiece, all... Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American--and indeed American--works of fiction of the ninet... |
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115,05 zł |
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Freak Story: 1967-1969
ISBN: 9781481864244 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This novel has everything: a coming of age story, a family drama, and a thriller, all in one splendid read " Buddy Hartman was adopted by a woman who wanted to get a child to please her husband. When the husband leaves, the woman becomes a prostitute to support herself, and then becomes an addict to soothe the pain. Buddy learns early that life teaches you to be selfish. However, it's Buddy's own drug abuse later in life that leads him to Barry, his "Eskimo," who saves him from a life of addiction. At 31, Buddy is a sober and clean music promoter in Minneapolis, and he writes mysteries on...
"This novel has everything: a coming of age story, a family drama, and a thriller, all in one splendid read " Buddy Hartman was adopted by a woman who...
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50,22 zł |
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Created to Be Free: A Historical Novel about One American Family
ISBN: 9781585497041 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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146,77 zł |
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A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
ISBN: 9783842457614 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,23 zł |
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A River Moves Forward: A Mind-Blowing Drama of Betrayal, Mystery, and Heartbreak
ISBN: 9780985909604 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Connie Morris grows up in Chicago's Cabrini Green projects, and suffers abuse from her father. When tragedy strikes the family, Connie is virtually the last survivor, and ends up homeless until an unexpected hobby leads to fortune and fame. At the peak of her career, someone from her past tries to destroy everything she has worked hard for. Connie could possibly lose it all, including herself. On the other side of Chicago is Dean Wilson, a cocky police officer whose marriage ends tragically. Soon he meets Connie and the two fall in love, but when they learn their paths have crossed before, it...
Connie Morris grows up in Chicago's Cabrini Green projects, and suffers abuse from her father. When tragedy strikes the family, Connie is virtually th...
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59,58 zł |
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The Autobiography of Obsidian Dumar
ISBN: 9781482317008 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Obsidian Dumar III, world weary, Pulitzer Prize winning author, professor of literature at Brown in Providence, RI is stuck. After instant success with his first book his publisher asked him to write a memoir. Like many an author before him he is finding it extremely difficult to write about himself. To tell his own story requires reliving painful memories he'd long ago consigned to his private dustbin. Except as he ponders more about his life resurrecting events, images from his past, there have always been seemingly dark forces at play surrounding Dr. Dumar from a very young age. Then the...
Obsidian Dumar III, world weary, Pulitzer Prize winning author, professor of literature at Brown in Providence, RI is stuck. After instant success wit...
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126,96 zł |
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece
ISBN: 9781483701554 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He who would tell a tale must look toward three ideals: to tell it well, to tell it beautifully, and to tell the truth. The first is the Gift of God, the second is the Vision of Genius, but the third is the Reward of Honesty. In The Quest of the Silver Fleece there is little, I ween, divine or ingenious; but, at least, I have been honest. In no fact or picture have I consciously set down aught the counterpart of which I have not seen or known; and whatever the finished picture may lack of completeness, this lack is due now to the story-teller, now to the artist, but never to the herald of the...
He who would tell a tale must look toward three ideals: to tell it well, to tell it beautifully, and to tell the truth. The first is the Gift of God, ...
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99,02 zł |
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The Man With The Silver Tongue
ISBN: 9781490476766 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In my novel THE MAN WITH THE SILVER TONGUE, when only seven years old, Luther Carruthers braved the alligator-infested waters with his parents so they could join the Seminole Indians in the Florida swamps, where as runaway slaves they would be safe. And Luther and his family ended up living as Indians. It was 1794. The Seminoles hated slavery and helped runaway Negroes whenever they could. The Seminoles called Luther "the boy with the silver tongue" because of all the languages he could speak, including most of the Indian languages. When sixteen Luther went to work as an interpreter for a...
In my novel THE MAN WITH THE SILVER TONGUE, when only seven years old, Luther Carruthers braved the alligator-infested waters with his parents so they...
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45,82 zł |
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The Book of Negroes: The award-winning classic bestseller
ISBN: 9780552775489 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abducted from her West African village at the age of 11 and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of finding her way home again. Based on a true story, the novel spans three continents and six decades to bring to life a dark and shameful chapter in our history.
Abducted from her West African village at the age of 11 and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of findin...
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67,06 zł |
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Aunt Millipus and Her Will
ISBN: 9781571687203 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emille Jackson, nicknames Aunt Millips, was reared a slave girl on a plantation from the age of five. She was a mulatto whose mother was of Ethiopian descent and whose father was a white man she never knew. When she was fifteen her slave owner gave her to his twenty-one-year-old son for a concubine. She gave birth to two children, a boy and a girl. Although they were white in color, they were black by race. Shortly after the abolishment of slavery, the children's father, Colonel Jackson, secretly went to East Texas and deeded two hundred acres of land to Aunt Millipus and their children. He...
Emille Jackson, nicknames Aunt Millips, was reared a slave girl on a plantation from the age of five. She was a mulatto whose mother was of Ethiopian ...
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82,77 zł |
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The Fortunes of Blues and Blessings
ISBN: 9780991551705 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." Described by many as the two faces of fortune, it is the blues and our blessings, one causing much heartbreak and the other providing immense joy. The Fortunes of Blues and Blessing is a historical American saga telling the story of a black family in America beginning in 1849 that spans more than 100 years and five generations. The family tree takes root in Sierra Leone with the capture of a young African named Zokaya, he's carried...
From the beginning, as written in Genesis 8:22, "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall...
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69,85 zł |
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The Good Lord Bird
ISBN: 9781594632785 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year "A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride." -cover review of The New York Times Book Review "Outrageously entertaining." -USA Today "James McBride delivers another tour de force" -Essence "So imaginative, you'll race to the finish." -NPR.org "Wildly entertaining."--4-star... Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Wa... |
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78,62 zł |
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The Fires of Greenwood: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, a Novel
ISBN: 9780970995766 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, hordes of angry whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, crossed the Frisco railroad tracks into the Greenwood section known as Black Wall Street, armed with weapons and a determination to destroy. Within a seven hour period, they managed to slaughter over three hundred African Americans, while literally burning down all the businesses and homes within a 33 block radius. This well-written, fictionalized version chronicles the events that led to one of the most horrendous slaughters of American citizens in this country's troubled racial past.
In the early morning hours of June 1, 1921, hordes of angry whites in Tulsa, Oklahoma, crossed the Frisco railroad tracks into the Greenwood section k...
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122,18 zł |
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