Download or read book The Delany Sisters Reach High written by Amy Hill Hearth and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on The New York Times bestseller Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Sarah Louise Delany was born September 19, 1889; she was a calm, gentle child her family called "Sweet Sadie." Her little sister, Annie Elizabeth, was born two years later, on September 3, 1891. Bessie was Just the opposite of Sadie. She was so bossy that she was called "Queen Bess." The sisters had eight brothers and sisters. They grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the campus of Saint Augstine's College. Their mother was a teacher, and their father was a minister and vice-principal of the school. This is the story of the childhood of these two fascinating women who grew up in a time of change when life was often not easy for African Americans. Both their parents encouraged their children to "reach high" to work hard in school and to aim for the stars. And reach high they did. Sadie became the first Black person to teach domestic science on the high school level in New York City, and Bessie earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree and was the second Black woman licensed to practice dentistry in the city of New York. Children and adults alike will enjoy this story that gives us a look at our history and provides inspiration to all those who read it.
Download or read book Having Our Say written by Sarah Louise Delany and published by Kodansha America. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the experiences of two African-American women growing up in North Carolina at the turn-of-the-century.
Download or read book The Delany Sisters Reach High written by Amy Hill Hearth and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A children's biography of Sophie and Bessie.
Download or read book The Delany Sisters Book of Everyday Wisdom written by Sarah Louise Delany and published by Kodansha America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After charming an international audience, taking bestseller lists by storm with Having Our Say, and delighting theatergoers with the Broadway play, America's best-loved, bestselling sisters are back to warm the hearts of paperback readers with their feisty, down-to-earth advice and inspiring thoughts on faith, love, and self-reliance. 20 photos. IT'S AS IF WE'VE BECOME AMERICA'S GRANDMAS.' That's how Sadie Delany described the outpouring of affection and admiration that followed the success of Having Our Say, the best-selling memoir she and her sister published'
Download or read book On My Own at 107 written by Sarah L. Delany and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 1998-01-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Delany recounts her transition from mourning the loss of her sister, Bessie, to a renewed zest for life, symbolized by Bessie's flower garden.
Download or read book Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women s Literary Society written by Amy Hill Hearth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackie accepts an opportunity to host a local radio show where she creates a late-night persona, Miss Dreamsville, and launches a reading group thus sending the conservative and racially segregated town into uproar.
Download or read book We Who Believe in Freedom written by Lea E. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and high school readers. Ella Baker, who grew up in Littleton, North Carolina, is best remembered for the role she played in facilitating in April 1960 the organizational meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, her alma mater. With passion and clear understanding, Lea E. Williams outlines the life that brought Baker to this crucial point in U.S. history.
Download or read book We are Your Sisters written by Dorothy Sterling and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.
Download or read book More Than Sorrow written by Vicki Delany and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to read, unable to concentrate, full of pain, lost and confused, haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to her sister’s small-scale vegetable farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario to recover. As summer settles on the farm, she finds comfort in the soft rolling hills and neat fields as well as friendship in the company of Hila Popalzai, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war. Unable to read the printed word, Hannah retreats into the attic and boxes of moldy letters that have accumulated for more than two centuries. As she learns about the original settlers of this land, Loyalist refugees fleeing the United States in 1784, she is increasingly drawn to the space beneath the old house. More than carrots and potatoes, soups and jams, are down in the dark damp root cellar. Hannah experiences visions of a woman, emerging from the icy cold mist. Is the woman real? Or the product of a severely damaged brain? Which would be worse? Then Hila disappears. When Hannah cannot account for her time, not even to herself, old enemies begin to circle. In this modern Gothic novel of heart-wrenching suspense, past and present merge into a terrifying threat to the only thing Hannah still holds dear – her ten-year-old niece, Lily.
Download or read book Water Steps written by A. LaFaye and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyna likes her friends, her purple hair, and taking photographs. But there's something she definitely doesn't like: the water. Every time she comes near it, she feels the sinister pull of the depths trying to draw her down to a watery grave. Even the calm water in the bathtub reminds her of the torrential storm that took the lives of her sailing family when she was just a baby. But Kyna's adopted parents love nothing more than to swim and splash about in lakes and streams, or even the local pool. When they decide to spend the summer at a beach house on Lake Champlain, Kyna is convinced that they're trying to teach her something about water that she's not ready to learn. Little does she know that the water will reveal far more than she ever could have imagined. Inspired by Champ, the legendary monster living in Lake Champlain, Water Steps finds novelist A. LaFaye at her best, expertly interweaving themes of adolescent fears and fantasies, the frustrations and rewards of family, and a world of mystery and magic under the placid surface of nature.
Download or read book Not a Genuine Black Man written by Brian Copeland and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the longest-running one-man show in San Francisco history -- now coming to Off-Broadway -- a hilarious, poignant, and disarming memoir of growing up black in an all-white suburb In 1972, when Brian Copeland was eight, his family moved from Oakland to San Leandro, California, hoping for a better life. At the time, San Leandro was 99.4 percent white, known nationwide as a racist enclave. This reputation was confirmed almost immediately: Brian got his first look at the inside of a cop car, for being a black kid walking to the park with a baseball bat. Brian grew up to be a successful comedian and radio talk show host, but racism reemerged as an issue -- only in reverse -- when he received an anonymous letter: "As an African American, I am disgusted every time I hear your voice because YOU are not a genuine Black man!" That letter inspired Copeland to revisit his difficult childhood, resulting in a hit one-man show that has been running for nearly two years -- which has now inspired a book. In this funny, surprising, and ultimately moving memoir, Copeland shows exactly how our surroundings make us who we are.
Download or read book Know Your Power written by Nancy Pelosi and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestseller that has inspired women everywhere to focus on what matters most and follow their dreams wherever they may lead. “Never losing faith, we worked to redeem the promise of America, that all men and women are created equal. For our daughters and our granddaughters today we have broken the marble ceiling. For our daughters and our granddaughters now the sky is the limit.” —Nancy Pelosi, after being sworn in as Speaker of the House When Nancy Pelosi became the first woman Speaker of the House, she made history. Now she continues to inspire women everywhere in this thought-provoking collection of wise words—her own and those of the important people who played pivotal roles in her journey.
Download or read book Believe Me written by JP Delaney and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. “[A] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review) Claire Wright is desperate. A British drama student in New York without a green card, she takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pickup in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands. But then the game changes. When one of her targets becomes the suspect in a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting chops to lure him into a confession. From the start, she questions the part she’s being asked to play: Is Patrick Fogler a killer? Or is there more to this setup than she’s being told? Claire will soon realize she is playing the deadliest role of her life. Praise for Believe Me “For readers who enjoyed the paranoia factor in A. J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window or the unreliable narrator of Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.”—Library Journal “Produces a bobsled run’s worth of twists.” —Publishers Weekly “An intense, stylish psychological thriller.”—Good Housekeeping “A dark and haunting thriller . . . A superb evocation of conflicted emotions, this never lets you guess what’s coming next.”—Daily Mail “I so enjoyed it—what a twisty, exciting read.”—Sabine Durrant, author of Lie With Me
Download or read book Strong Medicine Speaks written by Amy Hill Hearth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years comes the inspiring true story of Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould, a Native American matriarch, and the Indian way of life that must never be forgotten. Amy Hill Hearth's first book, Having Our Say, told the true story of two century-old African-American sisters and went on to become an enduring bestseller and the subject of a three-time Tony Award-nominated play. In "Strong Medicine" Speaks, Hearth turns her talent for storytelling to a Native American matriarch presenting a powerful account of Indian life. Born and raised in a nearly secret part of New Jersey that remains Native ancestral land, Marion "Strong Medicine" Gould is an eighty-five-year-old Elder in her Lenni-Lenape tribe and community. Taking turns with the author as the two women alternate voices throughout this moving book, Strong Medicine tells of her ancestry, tracing it back to the first Native peoples to encounter the Europeans in 1524, through the strife and bloodshed of America's early years, up to the twentieth century and her own lifetime, decades colored by oppression and terror yet still lifted up by the strength of an enduring collective spirit. This genuine and delightful telling gives voice to a powerful female Elder whose dry wit and charming humor will provide wisdom and inspiration to readers from every background.
Download or read book Mystery Girl 2 written by and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trine knows the answer to any question, except _how_ she knows it. But that’s a mystery for later. The mystery for now concerns frozen mammoths in Siberia, and Trine, who never leaves London, wants to go see them herself. And close behind her is a killer who’s targeted Trine for reasons even she doesn’t know.
Download or read book How to Book a Murder written by Cynthia Kuhn and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Kate Carlisle, in Agatha award-winning author Cynthia Kuhn’s series debut, small-town bookseller and literary event planner Emma Starrs is out to close the book on a killer intent on crashing the party. To help save her family’s floundering Colorado bookstore, Starlit Bookshop, newly minted Ph.D. Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-themed dinner party for her wealthy, well-connected high school classmate Tabitha Baxter. It’s a delightful evening of cocktails and conjecture until Tabitha’s husband, Tip—hosting the affair in the guise of Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin—winds up murdered. In a heartbeat, Emma and her aunt Nora, a famous mystery writer, become suspects. Emma is sure the party’s over for Starlit events, until celebrated author Calliope Nightfall, whose gothic sensibilities are intrigued by the circumstances, implores the bookseller to create a Poe-themed launch event for her latest tome. Throwing a bash to die for while searching for additional clues is already enough to drive Emma stark raven mad, but another shocking crime soon reveals that Silvercrest has not yet reached the final chapter of the puzzling case. Someone in this charming artistic community has murder on the mind, and if Emma cannot outwit the killer, she and her beloved aunt will land behind bars, to walk free nevermore.
Download or read book Burden of Memory written by Vicki Delany and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who jettisoned her career over an unreliable screenwriter, is now divorced, broke, and come to a ''primitive, untamed northern forest'' on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulous
