| Author | : Cheryl Wills |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2016-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781617178863 |
Die Free
| Author | : Cheryl Wills |
| Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2011-01-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1935098403 |
When award-winning television news anchor Cheryl Wills discovers that her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, was a runaway slave who joined the historic fight for freedom in the American Civil War, she embarks on a gut-wrenching search to learn more. Cheryl¿s journey leads her to a courageous ancestor who demonstrated the same courage that she knew in her beloved father, an intrepid New York City firefighter, who died when she was thirteen. Her father never knew his family¿s notable legacy. Told with deep love and brow-raising honesty, "Die Free" stretches from Haywood County, Tennessee, in the 1860s to New York City in the twentieth century. Cheryl shares the unvarnished truth about the Wills¿ family roots, ever entwined in passion, music, and faith. Cheryl also exhumes the spirit of her great-great- great grandmother Emma Wills, an illiterate lionhearted widow, who was discriminated against as she fought to obtain her husband¿s Civil War pension and unwittingly dictated her historic life, from slavery to freedom, in sworn depositions to a lawyer. The century-old pension papers become the Holy Grail for the newscaster who nails a scoop that has forever changed her life and that of future generations. A lesson in the pruning of one¿s imagination, "Die Free" takes readers on a haunting yet exhilarating ride through the side door of American history.
Reclamation
| Author | : Gayle Jessup White |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-11-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0063028670 |
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved. Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they were direct descendants of Thomas Jefferson—lore she firmly believed, though others did not. For four decades the acclaimed journalist and genealogy enthusiast researched her connection to Thomas Jefferson, to confirm its truth once and for all. After she was named a Jefferson Studies Fellow, Jessup White discovered her family lore was correct. Poring through photos and documents and pursuing DNA evidence, she learned that not only was she a descendant of Jefferson on his father’s side; she was also the great-great-great-granddaughter of Peter Hemings, Sally Hemings’s brother. In Reclamation she chronicles her remarkable journey to definitively understand her heritage and reclaim it, and offers a compelling portrait of what it means to be a black woman in America, to pursue the American dream, to reconcile the legacy of racism, and to ensure the nation lives up to the ideals advocated by her legendary ancestor.
The Courts of the Morning
| Author | : John Buchan |
| Publisher | : House of Stratus |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2009-01-02 |
| Genre | : Adventure stories |
| ISBN | : 0755116984 |
South America is the setting for this adventure from the author of 'The Thirty-nine Steps'. When Archie and Janet Roylance decide to travel to the Gran Seco to see its copper mines they find themselves caught up in dreadful danger; rebels have seized the city. Janet is taken hostage in the middle of the night and it is up to the dashing Don Luis de Marzaniga to aid her rescue.
Living My Life
| Author | : Emma Goldman |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1970-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780486225449 |
The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities
Traditions and History of Anderson County
| Author | : Louise Ayer Vandiver |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 1928 |
| Genre | : Anderson County (S.C.) |
| ISBN | : |
The Namesake
| Author | : Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Publisher | : Fourth Estate |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-04-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780008609986 |
The incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize- winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'The kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say "Read this!"' Amy Tan 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes...' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' - after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss... Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, The Namesake is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.
Kia and the Magical Spikes
| Author | : Rukiya Jeffers Ware |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020-01-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692112106 |
