In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
African Americans
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Auteur:Douglass, FrederickSommaire:Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy...
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Auteur:Douglass, FrederickSommaire:Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.
- Auteur:J., AnnaSommaire:
Many women are not willing to go the extra mile to please their men. For most couples, inviting someone into their bedroom is totally out of the question. When Jasmine's husband James pressures her into having a threesome, their...
- Auteur:Hampton, BrendaSommaire:
Just when Jaylin thinks life is perfect and everything is going his way, a past lover delivers a shocking message to him, and Jaylin realizes that the women he disrespected are the very women he needs.
- Auteur:Hunt, La JillSommaire:
The love/hate relationship between Diane and Kendra Williams takes mother-daughter drama to entirely different level. Diane is a single mother who prides herself on being a master manipulator. She has no problem using anything or anyone...
- Auteur:Berry, Mary FrancesSommaire:
Born into slavery, Callie House helped create the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899 as a freedwoman. The organization, one of the first of its kind, campaigned for the reparations promised to African...
- Auteur:JaQuavis, AshleySommaire:
With Samad's target on her back, Liberty must survive the harsh streets alone. But when a chance encounter pushes her into the arms of a new friend, Po, the two take on the California kingpin--and step full force into the game.
- Auteur:McGlothin, VictorSommaire:
In 1947 St. Louis, Ms. Etta's is the place where a sinner can get all the boozy action he craves--that is until ladies' man Baltimore Floyd rolls into town and falls in the sack with the wrong woman.
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Auteur:Morris, BillSommaire:Willie Bledsoe is driving some smuggled guns to the Motor City with the hopes of jump-starting his dream of writing a memoir. But there at Tiger Stadium on opening day of the 1968 baseball season, Willie learns he is the prime suspect...
- Auteur:Lovely, LutishiaSommaire:
When their parents decide to expand their successful Taste of Soul restaurant to the West Coast, both Bianca Livingston and her brother, Jefferson, begin vying for a management position. And when their meddling cousin Toussaint shows up...
- Auteur:Dickey, Eric JeromeSommaire:
When Jordan Greene moves to Manhattan, he learns to keep up with the fast pace of a Wall Street job, a stylish apartment, and a sexy girlfriend. But when he meets Kimberly Charvers, his pulse begins to race. She is funny, feisty,...
- Auteur:Johnson, CharlesSommaire:
Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave from an Illinois farm, travels to New Orleans only to discover that nothing but misery awaits him in the big city. Sitting on a pier as he contemplates his life, he decides the sea holds his...
- Auteur:Davies Cordova, Sarah, Magona, SindiweSommaire:
Traduit pour la première fois en français, Mère à Mère, est l'un des plus grands livres sud-africains. Traduit de l'anglais par Sarah Davies Cordova Résumé Grand roman de l'apartheid où violence et beauté demeurent l'héritage...
- Auteur:Ervin, KeishaSommaire:
Dylan Monroe is the kind of chick females love to hate, but children and dogs mysteriously adore. She's a material girl, living in a material world filled with diamonds, furs, limousines, celebrities, and private planes. To the...
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Auteur:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSommaire:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines some of the leading political and cultural figures of the Harlem Renaissance--including Marcus Garvey,W.E.B. Du Bois, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Langston Hughes, and many more.
- Auteur:Phillips, Donald T.Sommaire:
Chronicles the leadership style of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Offers a powerful lesson that can be applied to life, business or any endeavor.
- Auteur:Weber, CarlSommaire:
Lifelong friends Kyle, Allen, Wil, and Jay all make mistakes in their marriages -- and all get kicked to the curb by their wives. What follows is a wild ride with stops in sleazy hotels, divorce court, and even jail. In their adventure...
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Auteur:Davis, Tanita S.Sommaire:Teens Octavia and Tali learn about strength, independence, and courage when they are forced to take a car trip with their grandmother, who tells about growing up Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in Europe during World War II as a...
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Auteur:Bausum, Ann.Sommaire:Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically...
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