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Free To Be
ISBN: 9780996180801 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 Florida Book Award Winner, Silver Medal The Union navy cripples the rebel defenses at Port Royal, South Carolina and panicky plantation owners flee, abandoning their crops, property, and 8,000 slaves. Neither planter nor slave realize November 7, 1861, would mark the end of life as they know it. The army confiscates a bumper crop of contraband Sea Island cotton and hires the slaves-also labeled contraband-to harvest it for the United States Treasury. Sensing a chance at freedom, the Negroes rejoice, recalling that day of awareness as 'The day the big gun shoot'. But Crecie, a field hand...
2015 Florida Book Award Winner, Silver Medal The Union navy cripples the rebel defenses at Port Royal, South Carolina and panicky plantation owners fl...
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58,71 zł |
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Driving the King
ISBN: 9780060529628 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary. The war is over, the soldiers are returning, and Nat King Cole is back in his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, for a rare performance. His childhood friend, Nat Weary, plans to propose to his sweetheart, and the singer will honor their moment with a special song. While the world has changed, segregated Jim Crow Montgomery remains the same. When a white man attacks Cole with a pipe, Weary leaps from the audience to defend him--an act... A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat ... |
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69,85 zł |
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Gilded Debutante
ISBN: 9781505429008 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gilded Debutante follows the lives of Opal, Clover and Tess Hughes, three sisters living in the beautiful countryside surrounding Washington, D.C. during the Gilded Age. It is winter 1884 and until now, life has been charmed for these daughters of wealthy general store owner, Robert Hughes and although the girls have spent their lives together, they could not be further apart when it comes to their outlook on life. Being the eldest, Opal takes great pride in her role at Hughes General, while her younger sister, Clover, is equally as devoted to marrying her long time beau, Earle Cullens and...
Gilded Debutante follows the lives of Opal, Clover and Tess Hughes, three sisters living in the beautiful countryside surrounding Washington, D.C. dur...
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50,40 zł |
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Living Language, Living Memory - Essays on the Works of Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9789186069957 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,28 zł |
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El Doe Ray Doe (Who Knew?)
ISBN: 9781480963405 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,15 zł |
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Discarded Shackles--The Escape: A Chronicle of Slavery and Delivery
ISBN: 9781515188490 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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24,68 zł |
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Homegoing
ISBN: 9780735208193 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016 "Homegoing is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing... Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR'... |
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144,14 zł |
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September (The Christina Dandridge Story)
ISBN: 9780692463109 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born to an interracial couple in Arkansas circa 1960, Christina Dandridge's life was tumultuous from the start with things only growing worse as the years passed. Wrought with abuse and abandonment, Christina's life is a journey of ups and downs and trials and triumphs. This is a companion novel to the Been So Long series, chronicling the life of Mona-Lisa's mother and setting the stage for the dysfunction that plagued the lives of both Mona-Lisa and her sister, Cleo. (Discussion Questions are included)
Born to an interracial couple in Arkansas circa 1960, Christina Dandridge's life was tumultuous from the start with things only growing worse as the y...
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55,04 zł |
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A Geechee Homecoming
ISBN: 9780692494073 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Geechee Homecoming is an historical fiction set in 1858 on Bonita Island Plantation. It is the story of Etta. She and her mother are house servants to the Wilsons, master and mistress of the planation. Oddly, Etta has been allowed to go to the mainland to help her grandmother, a freed slave. She is called back to the island when her mother is sent away from the Main House in disgrace. They must adapt to the life of farmhands among their Geechee family and friends. Etta grows in appreciation for her history and culture. She finds her place as she learns about conjuring, medicinal plants, the...
A Geechee Homecoming is an historical fiction set in 1858 on Bonita Island Plantation. It is the story of Etta. She and her mother are house servants ...
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73,15 zł |
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TheirStory: The Begginning
ISBN: 9780984702466 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,58 zł |
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Homegoing
ISBN: 9781101947135 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR's Debut Novel of the Year One of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016 One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016 "Homegoing is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates The unforgettable New York Times best seller begins with the story of two half-sisters, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power, Homegoing... Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book One of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016 NPR'... |
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131,04 zł |
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The Eyes of the Comet: An American Slave Odyssey
ISBN: 9780996537100 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eyes of the Comet - An American Slave Odyssey is a "highly charged" historical novel whose time has finally arrived. The story captures the "vibrancy" of the South during the ante-bellum period. An exciting adventure, packed with all the intrigue and passion necessary to fill the reader's imagination, the book represents a carefully researched compilation of material woven into various "themes and connections," which provide us with a fresh examination of the era. Scenes throughout the novel are based on careful research and simply not manufactured, which addresses the old adage that... The Eyes of the Comet - An American Slave Odyssey is a "highly charged" historical novel whose time has finally arrived. The story captures the "vi... |
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122,06 zł |
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Eyes Like Mine
ISBN: 9781508457725 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,75 zł |
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The Checkerboard
ISBN: 9781625263025 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. September 8, 1900 Five Thousand Lives Blotted Out The headlines say it all. Death, destruction, and desolation is everywhere on Galveston Island. The papers don't mention the survivors. THE CHECKERBOARD, sequel to THE CANARY, continues the story of Myra Gallaway, her new husband CB, and Black Jack and his new wife, Marguerite, the 'red-headed colored gal.' The men showed that, against all odds, a mixed ship sails well. The wives band together in the house in LaPorte to prove the same to their new neighborhood. All seems to go as expected until that crazy gypsy, Lulah Marie, shows up and...
September 8, 1900 Five Thousand Lives Blotted Out The headlines say it all. Death, destruction, and desolation is everywhere on Galveston Island. The ...
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91,69 zł |
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Black Nancy Book III: The Privateer
ISBN: 9781519598448 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lennox Nelson's Black Nancy Book Sagas are written to present African-American history from an adventurous and unique perspective while inconspicuously weaving historical facts throughout. Stories in which its descendants can be proud and all can finally experience 'Our story ' Black Nancy Book III: The Privateer is an origins story, fulfilling the readers desire to discover the beginnings of the familiar characters that they've come to love. This third installment delivers all the raw storytelling with which the author is known, beginning with the uncommon way he captures his readers in the...
Lennox Nelson's Black Nancy Book Sagas are written to present African-American history from an adventurous and unique perspective while inconspicuousl...
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59,62 zł |
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Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)
ISBN: 9780544812123 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
"Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage." --New York Times Book Review Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker's novel brings the everyday... A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
"Chronicles the triumph of a fre... |
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78,58 zł |
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Incident at Ashton
ISBN: 9780875656526 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Republished with a foreword by John Tisdale, director of TCU's School of Journalism, the late Jay Milner's novel is a riveting portrayal of a scenario that unhappily mirrored real-life incidents throughout the South in the mid-twentieth century.
Republished with a foreword by John Tisdale, director of TCU's School of Journalism, the late Jay Milner's novel is a riveting portrayal of a scenario...
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130,82 zł |
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Yankee Reconstructed
ISBN: 9780990797555 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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86,91 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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73,14 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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65,30 zł |
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