Private investigator Spenser leaves Boston for summertime Cape Cod where he and his friend Susan Silverman find themselves involved with fools and villains whose concerns are extortion, robbery, and murder
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A look at the flight of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between 1940 and 1970 presents the migrants' stories about everything from rural sharecropper shacks to urban housing projects.
"A courageous young woman who was raised as a boy learns of an evil poacher's plan to steal a powerful gem. On a dangerous jungle quest to save the animal kingdom from harm, a childhood friendship transforms into love"--Back cover.
For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage.
On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
Tubman apparently told Clark that “there were many people in the slave states, even slaveholders, who were willing to ... See District 4 for the various Cator families; and see also Will of Thomas E. Cator, in Leslie and Neil Keddie, ...
Ferguson, “Public Worshipofthe Lord,”Christian Magazine1(1848); 42–43; Jesse B. Ferguson, quoted in Enos E. Dowling,An Analysisofthe IndexoftheChristian Magazine 1848–1953 (Lincoln,Ill.: Lincoln Bible InstitutePress, 1958),ii.
Looks at thirteen literary works that had a profound influence on American history, culture, and character, including "The Federalist Papers," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and "The Souls of Black Folk."
Robert Plummer writes, 'Because God is completely sovereign over history, all Old Testament-era saving events, institutions, persons, offices, holidays and ceremonies served to anticipate the final saving event, the final saving person, ...