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Author | : Claire Hartfield |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0544785134 |
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On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.
Author | : Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Claire Hartfield |
Publisher | : Dial Books |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Me and Uncle Romie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Aspects of the life of artist Romare Bearden are woven into a story about a young southern boy's visit to New York City.
Author | : William M. Tuttle |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252065866 |
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Portrays the race riot which left 38 dead, 537 wounded and hundreds homeless in Chicago during the summer of 1919.
Author | : Geraldine Brooks |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101079193 |
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“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition. As death reaches into every household and villagers turn from prayers to murderous witch-hunting, Anna must find the strength to confront the disintegration of her community and the lure of illicit love. As she struggles to survive and grow, a year of catastrophe becomes instead annus mirabilis, a "year of wonders." Inspired by the true story of Eyam, a village in the rugged hill country of England, Year of Wonders is a richly detailed evocation of a singular moment in history. Written with stunning emotional intelligence and introducing "an inspiring heroine" (The Wall Street Journal), Brooks blends love and learning, loss and renewal into a spellbinding and unforgettable read.
Author | : Michael Cassutt |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Astronauts |
ISBN | : 0312874405 |
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Yuri Ribko grows from engineering student to Cosmonaut under the secret control of his KGB uncle. This fascinating thriller takes the reader deep into the heart of the Soviet space program--its successes and its heart-breaking failures--and shows the human face on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Author | : Víctor del Árbol |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590518454 |
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and Crime Reads An intense literary thriller that tears through the interlocked histories of fascism and communism in Europe without pausing for breath. Gonzalo Gil is a disaffected lawyer stuck in a failed career and a strained marriage, dodging the never-ending manipulation of his powerful father-in-law. The fragile balance of Gonzalo’s life as a father and husband is pushed to the limit when he learns, after years without news of his estranged sister, Laura, that she has committed suicide under suspicious circumstances. Resolutely investigating the steps that led to her death, Gonzalo discovers that Laura is believed to have murdered a Russian gangster who kidnapped and killed her young son. What seems to be revenge is just the beginning of a tortuous path that will take Gonzalo through the untold annals of his family’s past. He will examine the fascinating story of his father, Elías Gil, the great hero of the antifascist resistance. As a young engineer Elías traveled to the USSR committed to the ideals of the revolution, but was betrayed, arrested, and confined on the infamous Nazino Island, ultimately becoming a key figure, admired and feared, during Spain’s darkest years. Suspenseful and utterly absorbing, A Million Drops is a visceral story of enduring love and revenge postponed that introduces a master of international crime fiction to American readers.
Author | : Dave Eggers |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307371379 |
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What Is the What is the story of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee in war-ravaged southern Sudan who flees from his village in the mid-1980s and becomes one of the so-called Lost Boys. Valentino’s travels bring him in contact with enemy soldiers, with liberation rebels, with hyenas and lions, with disease and starvation, and with deadly murahaleen (militias on horseback)–the same sort who currently terrorize Darfur. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins. Based closely on true experiences, What Is the What is heartbreaking and arresting, filled with adventure, suspense, tragedy, and, finally, triumph.
Author | : John Hersey |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-06-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0593082362 |
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Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.
Author | : Jan Merete Weiss |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1616955341 |
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Jan Merete Weiss’s Italy comes to life as Captain Natalia Monte of the Naples Carabiniere returns to investigate a murder committed at the heart of the great city’s art community. When the bodies of two men are found, shockingly posed, in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case. Soon she finds herself shuttling between Naples’s decadent art galleries and violent criminal underworld. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole. A riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty.