Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter s Secret written by A. L. Provost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression, of Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath infamy, was not solely a middle-America tragedy. Families living in the South suffered similar economic and social misfortunes. This the heart-rending tale of an honest, hard-working man supporting a wife and three young children who worked as a sharecropper on the 800-acre tobacco farm of one of the most despised men in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and how the sharecropper’s sixteen year-year-old daughter lived with a terrible secret. Woven into this tragic tale is a plot by persons unknown to murder the landowner and steal his fortune. It’s a real page-turner.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter s Secret written by A. L. Provost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression, of Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath infamy, was not solely a middle-America tragedy. Families living in the South suffered similar economic and social misfortunes. This the heart-rending tale of an honest, hard-working man supporting a wife and three young children who worked as a sharecropper on the 800-acre tobacco farm of one of the most despised men in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and how the sharecropper's sixteen year-year-old daughter lived with a terrible secret. Woven into this tragic tale is a plot by persons unknown to murder the landowner and steal his fortune. It's a real page-turner.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara was so thankful she had a friend like Mrs. Thelma. She confided in her often. She shared things with her that she had never been able to share with anyone. As it turns out, she was not the only one who had secrets to share. Follow along as other secrets are revealed. Secrets that would change lives forever!
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sharecropper's Daughter, Sara, and her hubby, Jimmy, were both blessed to have grown up in large families. As adults they formed lasting friendships with their church family, but the most unexpected family for them turned out to be their B & B family. Life often knocks you down, and the fall doesn't hurt quite so badly when you have someone there to help you break the fall. That's what family is all about. Follow along as Sara and Jimmy and their family face the challenges that come their way.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Julie Miliner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid racist and ambiguous times. She is forced to find a balance between a mother who finds it difficult to embrace her and a father she will never know. Abandoned at birth she is shuffled from one place to another, sometimes with relatives but sometimes with strangers who value the weekly stipend they receive for her care more than the girl herself. She is eventually reunited with her mother but the relationship is strained and uncertain. This is an epic tale that spans the time of slavery through the 1950s. The characters are rich and fluent in the language of survival and perseverance. There is love, loss, pain and forgiveness that every reader will identify with.
Download or read book Tell Me You Love Me written by Loretta Miller Mehl and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles. This is not your typical, we were poor, but never knew it account of one who grew up happy though penniless during the Great Depression. Far from it, Loretta reveals, I despised my life of painful embarrassing poverty. Her anthology of personal stories demonstrates a deep desire to improve her life and to receive the affirmation of her fathers love. Heartbreaking and playful, her accounts are fascinating. She shares many surprising practices and beliefs from the South. Despite taking action to overcome the difficulties of her childhood, she discovers a deeper and overwhelming need that she cannot fulfill on her own. Loretta writes from her memories, sometimes as if you are there and at times as reflections of the past. This is the inside story of a sharecroppers daughter who found herself forever drawn back to the place of her birth and the people she loves.
Download or read book The Photographic Uncanny written by Claire Raymond and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography. It especially makes the case for the capacity of certain photographs—precisely through their uncanniness—to contest structures of political and social dominance. The uncanny as a quality that unsettles the perception of home emerges as a symptom of modern and contemporary society and also as an aesthetic apparatus by which some key photographs critique the hegemony of capitalist and industrialist domains. The book’s historical scope is large, beginning with William Henry Fox Talbot and closing with contemporary indigenous photographer Bear Allison and contemporary African American photographer Devin Allen. Through close readings, exegesis, of individual photographs and careful deployment of contemporary political and aesthetic theory, The Photographic Uncanny argues for a re-envisioning of the political capacity of photography to expose the haunted, homeless, condition of modernity.
Download or read book Secrets of the Heart written by William Elihu Palmer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-03-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thank you for sharing your story, Secrets of the Heart, with us. It is a real gem! The emotional interaction between the mother and daughter was beautifully crafted and sensitive. I could visualize the mothers summer romance as your words brought to life the young couples mutual attraction. You captured the poignancy of young love, which is blind to any practical considerations. Knowing that Emily would have to make a similar choice regarding Todd, the mothers advice to Emily is mature and sensitive. I liked the ending. Our granddaughter, Sarah, (going on 12) loved it too. V. M.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are some similarities in the author's background and the story line, The Share Cropper's Daughter is fiction. The main character, Sara, will take the reader down many crooks, turns, and side roads before revealing the drop off and the detour at the end of the road. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt!
Download or read book A Sharecropper s Daughter written by Dove Joyner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when our country grapples with issues like gun control, violence between its citizens, or whether to consider reparations for former slaves or their descendants, The Sharecropper's Daughter shines light on the life of one African American family during the fifties to late nineties, which has pulled back the curtain, exposing, at least in part, what has led us where we are today. Resources such as established historical commentaries such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan's report on the plight of African American families following slavery, and Freedom's Story Essays 1609-1865, and of course, the Holy Bible provided some backdrop to recent history. Since we know of the impact environment plays in molding and shaping the life of an individual, it becomes possible to see root causes for social issues we face. Every seed planted into ripe soil and nurtured will yield a harvest of its own kind such as delicious peaches, delightful berries, or Love. The same is true with negative impacts to the human mind the human soul, whether it be child molestation, hatred, or evil of any type, unless that soul seeks a higher power, faith in God, to alter that established pathway. In overcoming childhood abuse, poverty, and pitfalls of many types, the author of this book decided to push back against the forces that pulled her downward, refusing to give up, always telling herself, "You can make it," and therefore, has become a testament to the resiliency of the human spirit to overcome adversity, providing proof positive that with God's help, "Where there is a will, there is a way, and thereby, all things are possible."
Download or read book The Children of Panther Burn written by Roosevelt Wright, Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Percy family has amassed a tremendous amount of wealth, but the Mississippi River is threatening to break its levees in 1927 and wash away everything they've worked so hard to achieve. To make sure they keep what is theirs, they and other whites force thousands of African-Americans at gunpoint to shore up the levees. Three escape and begin an epic journey North. Among escapees is Cora Mae, a servant who works for Henry Ford and gathers the knowledge and secrets that help guide her family through the Great Depression and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Meanwhile, Bully, another survivor, begins a sixty-year love affair with Sarah, a woman he wants to call his own in spite of a mother who keeps them apart with a shotgun. Matthew escapes Panther Burn to find a love and fortune worth dying for on the streets of Detroit. Take an epic 60 year journey through the personal struggles of a family as it battles poverty, racism and seemingly insurmountable odds to find their dreams as The Children of Panther Burn.
Download or read book Experiences of a Sharecropper s Daughter written by Mary Dismukes and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Is Waiting written by A. L. Provost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dadgummit! Why is it that every criminal who runs afoul of Baltimore chief of police Paul Marlowe scampers down south of US 1 and ends up in Lenoir County, North Carolina, where he becomes the problem of Lenoir County district attorney Newt Wildman? It is 1933, and the South is full of wannabe John Dillingers. The cast of thieves and murderers includes two larcenous bank officers, a beautiful female bank employee, and a German immigrant stooge down on his luck and willing to commit two brazen murdersfor the right price, of course. The chase is on in this eleventh tale of the popular Coastal Plain Mystery Series.
Download or read book Children of Secrets written by Lander Duncan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his extravagantly intimate autobiographical novel, Lander Duncan reconstructs the heart shattering images and remembrances of the dark, violent, and incoherent first two decades of his life. PROMISES Seduced by CJ, a sleek-framed Tuskegee cadet, the mixed-race diabolically beautiful Abigail, who is the fifteen-year-old daughter of the dean of faculty, sets this novel in motion when she becomes pregnant. With a reluctant agreement from her father, Abigail marries CJ and defiantly departs for his family farm in the Arkansas Delta. CJ reports for active duty to a segregated Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. As a powerful chronicle of a time, the novel's sobering historical backdrop is dramatically revealed through Abigail's culture collisions and misadventures intersecting with the harsh, alienating, and unpredictable Delta life and the racial indignities and clashes that CJ confronts while commanding a combat anti-demolition company in Europe. SECRETS After returning home a war hero, humiliation and bitterness eat away at CJ who must take a demeaning job as a railroad Red Cap to support his family. CJ's offer of a steadying hand to a white woman who stumbles as she gets off a train turns into an incident that produces a night of horror. The lives and fate of the Duncan family are forever changed. Exiled to a small, racially divided Pennsylvania town, Abigail, emotionally damaged by the ordeal, compels Lander and his brothers to promise never to reveal anything about their frightening past. Abigail's habit of hiding things—even losses, disappointments, humiliations, and racial identity—becomes a great burden that keeps her sons' lives in upheaval. CONFESSIONS Abandoned by his mother and estranged for more than a decade from his family, Lander is summoned home for the last few days of Abigail's life. Past informs present, and present recasts past; the brothers exchange stories that trace the vast emotional terrain of havoc their mother so thoughtlessly wrecked, the sense of confusion that shifted beneath their feet, the doors of self-perception that slammed in their face. They want desperately to love Abigail in all her flawed, outrageous humanity and find an opportunity to forgive the felonies she committed against them. A memorable cast emerges in poignant and too few moments of triumph. Sifting through Abigail's possessions, an undated letter is discovered that produces a damning and destructive secret.
Download or read book The Senator and the Sharecropper s Son written by John Downing Weaver and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaver's narrative explores these tangled lives against the background of "the color line," which W. E. B. Du Bois defined in 1903 as "the problem of the twentieth century."
Download or read book The Secrets of Art written by Debra N. Mancoff and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgotten treasures and lost tales, The Secrets of Art takes us on a journey through the art world’s mysteries to reveal that works of art are not always what they seem. A long-lost medieval masterpiece unearthed in the Tower of London. A secret message that only an elite few can read encoded in a painting. A glimpse of a ghostly image beneath the surface of a portrait. The intriguing stories of these works, and many more, are brought to life by author, historian and art detective Debra N. Mancoff, as she reveals secret symbols used by Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer and Caravaggio, uncovers layers of meaning in paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso and Dali, and provides insight into works by Frida Kahlo, Kara Walker and Marina Abramović. Drawing upon the findings of advanced technology, new research, scientific analysis and old-fashioned curiosity, The Secrets of Art unveils the layers of meaning beneath the surfaces of great works of art in a collection of tales that are fully based in fact but are as fascinating as fiction.
Download or read book THE HOLSTEIN DIAMONDS written by A. L. Provost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has heard the old adage two's a couple, three's a crowd. But four greedy German soldiers in 1942, all after the same elusive fortune in diamonds? Honor among thieves? Who mentioned anything about honor? Would there even be a last man standing after the smoke cleared and the international intrigue ended? And just why did these murderers flee all the way from Germany to Lenoir County, North Carolina? Just another baffling mystery waiting to be sorted out by longtime Lenoir County District Attorney Newt Wildman and his intrepid investigators. Welcome to another gripping Coastal Plains Mystery, the tenth in the series.
