Sökt på: Böcker av Susan Straight
totalt 20 träffar
Little Women
In nineteenth-century New England, in the shadow of the Civil War, the four teenaged March sisters will come of age sharing joys and hardships, dreams and disappointments. In the …
The Gettin' Place
The author's third novel traces the effects of racially motivated violence on three generations of a black family from California, from the Tulsa riots of the twenties to the …
Aquaboogie
“Aquaboogie is a love story in fragments . . . A book by a writer whose love for her characters infuses her work with the dignity and urgency they so clearly deserve.” —The New …
No Easy Way: Integrating Riverside Schools - A Victory for Community
Million Nightingales
From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a …
America and Other Myths
Robert Frank’s and Todd Webb’s parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture In 1955 two photographers were …
Between Heaven and Here
Glorette Picard is dead. Her body was found in the alley behind a taqueria, half-hidden by wild tobacco trees, but no one-not Sidney, who knew she worked that alley, not her son …
Friskative Dog
Sharron was five when her father gave her the Friskative Dog. And just like the best-loved toys from The Velveteen Rabbit, Sharron has made the Friskative Dog real through her love …
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights
"A writer of exceptional gifts and grace." --Joyce Carol Oates A young fireman battles to provide for his family--and struggles to avoid the traps of crime and poverty that …
A Million Nightingales
From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom.Daughter of an African mother and a …