Protecting a woman aviator whose violent husband has already committed one murder, Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency oversees the woman's participation in a daring 1910 cross-country race, which is being sponsored by a wealthy newspaper publisher.
Ultimately, the race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitions—and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.
Corey Grace - a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio - is a decorated Gulf War pilot, who is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of ...
With this book, Hall recaptures and reconstructs a rich but largely overlooked tradition of historical writing by African Americans.
"Twenty-two year-old Chris Strider vows to his dying grandmother that he will run a prestigious 6,000 mile race.
Its moving message is one that can help each of us cross the finish line in the "race of life." An illustrated poem, this is the heart-wrenching story of a boy in a footrace hoping to win, but falling again and again.
Winning the Race examines the roots of the serious problems facing black Americans today—poverty, drugs, and high incarceration rates—and contends that none of the commonly accepted reasons can explain the decline of black communities ...
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne. In My Place. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Jackson, Walter A. Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ...
The story begins in the relative innocence of 1962 on the day the Cain family is relocating from Weirton, West Virginia, to Indianapolis, Indiana. Johnny Tommy is only six years old when he misunderstands his fathers words.
An example was Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (1896), by Frederick L. Hoffman, an insurance company statistician. Hoffman predicted that diseases resulting from the immoral nature “of the vast majority of the colored ...
The Race