The Life and Times of a Black Prince in America

The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose

✍ Mary Hooper 📂 Fiction 📅 2006;2011 🏛 A&C Black;Bloomsbury 🌐 English ⚖ 259 KB 👁 2 views

Eliza is ousted by her new stepmother from her family and finally makes her way to London - only to be thrown straight into prison for stealing a mouthful of bread. At this point Eliza's life takes some remarkable twists as she learns to survive the sordid prison life, is rescued by a woman she has

The life and times of Persimmon Wilson: a novel

✍ Nancy Peacock 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Atria Paperback 🌐 English ⚖ 318 KB 👁 1 views

For fans of*Cold Mountain*and*The Invention of Wings*comes “a tour de force of historical fiction” (Henry Wiencek, author of*Master of the Mountain*) that follows the epic journey of a slave-turned-Comanche warrior who travels from the brutality of a New Orleans sugar cane plantation to the indomita

Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards

✍ Reid, Jan 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2014 🏛 University of Texas Press 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB 👁 1 views

The Black Butterfly_The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

✍ Brown, Lawrence T. 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🏛 Johns Hopkins University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 528 KB 👁 1 views

The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In _The Black Butterfly_ —a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out on

Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel

✍ Gregory Maguire 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;2014 🏛 HarperCollins e-Books 🌐 English ⚖ 822 KB 👁 3 views

SUMMARY: When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire

Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel

✍ Gregory Maguire 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;2014 🏛 HarperCollins e-Books 🌐 English ⚖ 879 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire