James Island: Stories from Slave Descendants, Hardcover - Eugene Frazier

Reducere. Today, James Island is a bustling community seven miles west of Charleston, South Carolina. But the island's past was not always as sunny. Beginnin...

Reducere. James Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the seventeen sl...

Reducere. DescriptionJames Island remains one of the few places in the United States where descendants of slaves can easily trace their roots to one of the s...

Reducere. Over thirty thousand slaves were brought to the shores of colonial America on ships owned and captained by James DeWolf. When the United States too...

An illuminating picture book biography of an artist and former slave whose patchwork quilts bring the stories of her family to life. Harriet Powers...

Reducere. Settled by William Claiborne and fought for by the Calverts, Kent Island is a land of charming beauty and unfailing hospitality. Local author Brent...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2016The vivid and haunting story of Sri Lanka and its brutal thirty...

Reducere. Big ExitGood FortuneA Place Called HomeOne LineBeautiful FeelingThe Whores Hustle And The Hustlers WhoreThis Mess We're InYou Said SomethingKamikaz...

Reducere. Corporations faced with proof that they are hurting people or the planet have a long history of denying evidence, blaming victims, complaining of w...

Reducere. The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and t...

Reducere. EDISTO ISLAND: Seaside Stories From A Geechee Gal is a patchwork quilt of local history, family life, routes-to-roots, Gullah lore, Geechee recipes...

Reducere. Located near the Palmetto State's historic city of Beaufort, the United States Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina is one of ...

Publisher: New Island BooksNumber of pages: 184Collection: Open Door SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 15Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. They save our lives every day, and we've never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America's great...

Ranging widely across both historical periods and national boundaries, Qaisra Shahraz's new collection of short stories speaks powerfully to the bu...

Reducere. "These are the stories America needs to hear about the remarkable young men and women who serve." - Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.). The...

Reducere. Ever since the American Revolution, military service has been a proud tradition for the Zumwalt family. Tradition initially led the author to join ...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Following the success of World War II Rhode Island, author Christian McBurney returns, with new coauthors Norman Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz, to...

The renowned James Beard Foundation chooses the greatest of America's homegrown eateries and presents recipes for their craveworthy foods. Every to...

DescriptionWith four hundred years of history, the land between the James and the Appomattox Rivers is one of the most storied tracts in Virginia. ...

Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith, a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his business ledger ...

Reducere. When you enter the world of James Herriot's Animal Stories, you'll share his wonder and humor, his adventures and misadventures as he contends with...

Reducere. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Hertford County had one of the largest populations of free people of color in North Carolina. Although they l...

Reducere. Find Your Way in Scripture.Scripture is another world. One we find our way into. And one that finds its way into us. Steeped in Scripture, Eugene P...

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Reducere. DescriptionFind Your Way in Scripture.Scripture is another world. One we find our way into. And one that finds its way into us. Steeped in Scriptur...

A collection of stories from some of our best-loved writers, inspired by ideas found in Henry James's notebooks. When Henry James died he left behi...

Reducere. Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for ph...

Reducere. Two great grandmothers find each other after sixty-five years and put their heads together to write and to illustrate a children's book with an edu...

Reducere. LOST ISLAND was Barbara Follett's third and last novel. It tells the story of Jane Carey, a young woman from Maine whose character and philosophy b...

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 250 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 249 x 282 x 22Cover type: Hard...

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The Hawaiian people have a laid-back love of life, and Island Poke's restaurants are committed to sharing this ethos and the authentic flavours fro...

Publisher: New Island BooksNumber of pages: 362Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 215 x 39Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Sinead Gl...

Reducere. While the world was reading one story, God was writing another. In 1977, amidst the bitterly cold days of the frigid Cold War, a young couple respo...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): James PattersonNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 32Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): James PattersonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. Fresh out of training, Dr. Chuck Radis moves with his wife and daughter to Peaks Island, Maine, to fulfill a Public Health scholarship obligation. ...

This engaging and highly readable family history follows ten generations of a mainstream middle-class family through three and a half centuries of ...

Reducere. It's no surprise that remote Martha's Vineyard is home to a significant population of ghosts. There are the strange entities that just may have pla...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): James PattersonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 34Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book chronicles the life of William Whipple who was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1652, and moved with his father, Captain J...

Reducere. Maurice Duruflé The Man and His Music is a new biography of the great French organist and composer (1902-86), and the most comprehensive in any lan...

Reducere. The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

Reducere. The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...