Marcus Cooley, alias Marcus or Harold Lewis, was running from the law. The authorities in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, wanted him for violating probation; he had been arrested for breaking and entering.
Alex Kotlowitz's "There Are No Children Here" was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow...
Explores America's racial antagonisms through the story of two Michigan towns--one white and wealthy, the other Black and poor--and a Black boy's death and its repercussions
Replete with folklore, suspense and romance, as well as with the urgent scientific curiosity of the Darwinian age, Once Upon a River is as richly atmospheric as Setterfield's bestseller The Thirteenth Tale.
From the award-winning author of Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, Alda P. Dobbs, comes a compelling new novel about building a new life in America.