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It's an African American Tale about four courageous young Black people. It starts with their struggles at a racist, predominantly, White school. It's a place and time where they are abused by White students and teachers, where Tiana struggles with wanting to be a cheerleader in a squad where even high yellow Black girls were only there so that the school wouldn't seem so racist. But she is a Black girl the color of Iman (the model). That means, she's among the darkest of the Negro race. And she struggles with a love for a mulatto named Nicadeemius who has won the heart of the school, but who wouldn't give her a second glance except to abuse her. Will she win his heart? A good question when o...
Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger’s home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he shared with his wife and eight children, and three of the four officers were also dead. Afterward, a sixteen-year-old boy would face a series of trials that would divide a county and thrust the state of Alabama into the national spotlight. In this good, old-fashioned, true-crime story, Lesa Carnes Shaul draws on court documents, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, and personal interviews to weave together a rollicking and illuminating tale of murder and revenge. Besides the shooting itself a...
Two friends form a pact to date each other's exes in this adventurous ride for fans of Sarah Adams, brought to you by a mother daughter author duo. Moxie moved to Colorado armed with a healthy distrust of others and seeking no-strings-attached adventure, but finds herself in a rut. Her job feels repetitive, she lacks close friends, and even one-night-stands aren’t exciting anymore. That is, until a boring night gets interrupted when one of her coworkers comes in, distraught over a breakup. Moxie reluctantly comforts Hannah, but they soon realize they break up with men for opposite reasons. Soon, a pact to date each other’s exes is born. After some waffling, Hannah convinces Moxie to go f...
This collection of Tickle's writings will be a revelation to her newer readers and a treasure for those who have long admired and followed her work.
Frankie Mae Tyson was in love. She loved Michael Jackson for as long as she could remember, and she had always dreamed of meeting him. One day, while driving down the Santa Monica freeway, 20-year-old Frankie saw a large, flashy limousine. There wasn't a doubt in her mind; it was Michael Jackson. They flirted as they drove down the highway. Frankie Mae had never been a popular girl. In school, the boys had made fun of her, but Michael Jackson saw her picture in a vacant store window before he met her, and he saw the plain girl in a special light. He cared about her. She cared about him, and they were both successful in keeping their union secret from the world. He truly loved her. She had se...
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative—one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrd...