Resultados para "Underground" en Afroamericana

Meet Underground Angel Laura Haviland. Her story reminds us that one person can make a profound difference for the good. She singlehandedly stood for the freedom of slaves as an abolitionist, humanitarian, and Underground Railroad conductor close to two centuries ago. The story of Laura’s life shows us that we can each become a change agent of compassion in a world that continues to oppress others because of their race, religion, or ethnicity. It inspires us to think and act “outside the box” in a divided country.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Still Standing is a raw, personal hip-hop journey from E. D. Lewis, tracing decades of music, setbacks, incarceration, family, rebuilding, and the determination to keep creating when life keeps testing you. At its core, it’s about survival, identity...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian...

Über diesen Roman spricht ganz Amerika! Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzer-Preis 2017 Cora ist nur eine der unzähligen Schwarzen, die auf den Baumwollplantagen Georgias schlimmer als Tiere behandelt werden. Alle träumen von der Flucht, doch wie und wohin? Caesar, ein Leidensgenosse, erzählt Cora...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century...

Brought to you by Penguin. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE UNPUBLISHED MASTERPIECE FROM THE AUTHOR OF NATIVE SON AND BLACK BOY Fred Daniels, a black man, is picked up randomly by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago neighbourhood and taken to the local precinct where he is tortured...

New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year Read by actor Ethan Herisse From the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was unable to...

'Rejoice: the final instalment of the Harlem Trilogy is here' TELEGRAPH 'A hugely satisfying conclusion to a towering achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Another tour de force . . . Whitehead's Harlem trilogy deserves to become a touchstone of the modern American literary canon' SPECTATOR FROM THE #1...

From a PEN/Bellwether Prizewinner, a "beautifully convincing slice of history" novel about the Black Panther Party, perfect for fans of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Dubois (Barbara Kingsolver). Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers’ Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968 and is soon swept up...

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia. An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a...

Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying dozens of slaves to freedom with daring, cunning, and magic that draws its power from the constellations. With the war over, those skills find new purpose as they solve mysteries and murders that White authorities would otherwise ignore. In the heart of Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward, everyone knows that when there’s a strange death or magical curses causing trouble, Hetty and Benjy are the only ones who can solve the case.

Die kraftvolle Stimme des Schwarzen Amerika Bisher kannte Hiram Walker nichts als ein Leben in Ketten. Aufgewachsen in der Sklaverei, musste er miterleben, wie seine Mutter verkauft wurde und für immer verschwand. Doch dann rettet ihn eine seltene Gabe vor dem Ertrinken und in Hiram wächst der...

Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to pre-order now. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel...

Sharla Cody is only five, but has already lived a troubled life -- only to find herself dumped on an elderly neighbor's doorstep when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep...