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| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2022-02-08 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0063020025 |
Download The Great Mrs. Elias Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she’s not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. Finally attaining the life she’s always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. The unsolved murder turns Hannah’s world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she’s built. When the truth of her identity is uncovered, thousands of protestors gather in front of her stately home. Hounded by the salacious press, the very private Mrs. Elias finds herself alone, ensnared in a scandalous trial, and accused of stealing her fortune from whites. Packed with glamour, suspense, and drama, populated with real-life luminaries from the period, The Great Mrs. Elias brings a fascinating woman and the age she embodied to glorious, tragic life.
| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : African American women |
| ISBN | : 1556529457 |
Download Sally Hemings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fictional account of the relationship between American statesman Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemings.
| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : William Morrow |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2007-12-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307426289 |
Download Hottentot Venus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famous naturalist in Europe, the Baron George Cuvier, whose encounter with her will inspire a theory of race that will change European science forever. Evoking the grand tradition of such “monster” tales as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Barbara Chase Riboud, prize-winning author of the classic Sally Hemings, again gives voice to an “invisible” of history. In this powerful saga, Sarah Baartman, for more than 200 years known only as the mysterious lady in the glass cage, comes vividly and unforgettably to life.
| Author | : Ruth Elias |
| Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1999-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0471673099 |
Download Triumph of Hope Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel Now available in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being, so that both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi "medical" experiment personally conducted by the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. And just as vividly, Ruth Elias recounts the aftermath of her imprisonment, and the difficult path to a new life in a new land: Israel, where new challenges, new obstacles awaited. "One of the most powerful memoirs provided to us by a survivor." --Indiana Jewish Post and Opinion "Well-written...not only provides a remarkably honest picture of the unspeakable reality of living in ghettos and slave-labor and death camps, but also what it meant to be Jewish in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s...This is one of the best Holocaust memoirs I have read." --Washington Jewish Week "The understated tone of this memoir adds to the author's powerful re-creation of her life as a young Czechoslovak Jewish woman during the Holocaust." --Publishers Weekly
| Author | : Barbara Chase-Riboud |
| Publisher | : William Morrow |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
Download Echo of Lions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Epic saga of slavery in America based on the controversial historical figure - Joseph Cinque.
| Author | : Elias Khoury |
| Publisher | : Archipelago |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0982624689 |
Download Gate of the Sun Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A New York Times Notable Book This “imposingly rich . . . a genuine masterwork” vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (New York Times Book Review). After Palestine is torn apart in 1948, two men remain alone in a deserted makeshift hospital in the Shatila camp on the outskirts of Beirut—entering a vast world of displacement, fear, and tenuous hope. Khalil holds vigil at the bedside of his patient and spiritual father, a storied leader of the Palestinian resistance who has slipped into a coma. As Khalil attempts to revive Yunes, he begins a story, which branches into many: stories of the people expelled from their villages in Galilee; of the massacres that followed; of the extraordinary inner strength of those who survived; and of love. Khalil—like Elias Khoury—is a truth collector, trying to make sense of the fragments and various versions of stories that have been told to him. His voice is intimate and direct, his memories are vivid, his humanity radiates from every page. Khalil lets his mind wander through time, from village to village, from one astonishing soul to another, and takes us with him. Gate of the Sun is a Palestinian Odyssey and the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss, love and devastation, memory and dream, Khoury humanizes the complex Palestinian struggle as he brings to life the story of an entire people.
| Author | : Stephen King |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2017-04-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1501157515 |
Download The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A frightening suspense novel about nine-year-old Trisha, who becomes lost in the woods as night falls.
| Author | : David Elias |
| Publisher | : ECW Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1773053264 |
Download Elizabeth of Bohemia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sweeping, cinematic novel about the life of the Winter Queen, Elizabeth Stuart October 1612. King James I is looking to expand England’s influence in Europe, especially among the Protestants. He invites Prince Frederic of the Palatinate to London and offers him his sixteen-year-old daughter Elizabeth’s hand in marriage. The fierce and intelligent Elizabeth moves to Heidelberg Castle, Frederic’s ancestral home, where she is favored with whatever she desires, and the couple begins their family. Amid much turmoil, the Hapsburg emperor is weakened, and with help from Bohemian rebels, Frederic takes over royal duties in Prague. Thus, Elizabeth becomes the Queen of Bohemia. But their reign is brief. Within the year, Catholic Europe unites to take back the Hapsburg throne. Defeated at the Battle of White Mountain, Frederic, Elizabeth, and their children are forced into exile for a much-reduced life in The Hague. Despite tumultuous seasons of separation and heartache, the Winter Queen makes every effort to keep her family intact. Written with cinematic flair, this historical novel brings in key figures such as Shakespeare and Descartes as it recreates the drama and intrigue of 17th-century England and the Continent. Elizabeth’s children included Rupert of the Rhine and Sophia of Hanover, from whom the Hanoverian line descended to the present Queen Elizabeth II.
| Author | : Jean Thompson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2012-02-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 143917590X |
Download The Year We Left Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A "New York Times" bestseller and a National Book Award finalist, "The Year We Left Home" chronicles the lives of the Erickson family as the children come of age in 1970's and '80's America.
