Bessie Life Death

Author : Jody Overend
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781525507885

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Bessie: Life & Death by Jody Overend Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Bessie MacIntyre has just endured the most traumatic experience of her young life; sadly caused by a series of events she had personally set in motion in the early hours of July 15, 2002. Now back at home in Ravenspond, Pennsylvania, she has to deal with the tragic aftermath and learn to live with the consequences of her actions. Will she find the inner strength to forgive herself and embrace life again? What will happen to those she had to leave behind? Was any of it real? Or did Bessie just dream all that crazy stuff about Heaven and her buddy Angel Mel in his Hawaiian shirts? Only time will tell what tomorrow may bring.

Author : Reeve Lindbergh,Pamela Paparone
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763603619

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Nobody Owns the Sky by Reeve Lindbergh,Pamela Paparone Pdf

Presents a chronicle in verse of the life of Bessie Coleman, the first African-American aviator, who dreamed of flying as a child in the cotton fields of Texas and persevered until she made that dream come true. Reprint.

Author : Paul Zdinak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : UOM:39015046884485

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Bessie's House by Paul Zdinak Pdf

Author : Doris L. Rich
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588345127

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Queen Bess by Doris L. Rich Pdf

Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.

Author : Edward Albee
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0452260833

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The Sandbox ; And, The Death of Bessie Smith ; With, Fam and Yam by Edward Albee Pdf

Two modern plays explore the spiritual and tragic aspects of the human struggle with death

Author : Louise Borden,Mary Kay Kroeger
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American women air pilots
ISBN : 0756929350

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Fly High! by Louise Borden,Mary Kay Kroeger Pdf

This book discusses the life of the determined African American woman who went all the way to France in order to earn her pilot's license in 1921.

Author : Connie Plantz
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766061200

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The Life of Bessie Coleman by Connie Plantz Pdf

From an early age, Bessie Coleman dreamed of flying, but racial bigotry and gender bias threatened to keep her grounded. Denied entrance to flight training school in the United States, Coleman went to Europe. She returned, triumphant, with a pilot's license and hopes of opening a flight school for African Americans. Author Connie Plantz captures all the tension and excitement of Coleman's soaring achievements. Raising funds as a stunt pilot, "Brave Bessie" thrilled her audiences with aerial tricks. Coleman's life ended in a tragic accident, but not before her dream of flight made aviation history.

Author : Jody Hadlock
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684631186

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The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock Pdf

Pregnant out of wedlock, sixteen-year-old Annie Moore is sent to live at a convent for fallen women. When the nuns take her baby, Annie escapes, determined to find a way to be reunited with her daughter. But few rights or opportunities are available to a woman in the 1860s, and after failing to find a respectable job, Annie resorts to prostitution in order to survive. As a highly sought-after demi-mondaine, Annie—now Bessie—garners many expensive gifts from her admirers, and eventually meets and marries the son of a wealthy jeweler. With her marriage, she believes her dream of returning to proper society has finally come true. She’s proven wrong when she suffers the ultimate betrayal at the hands of the man she thought would be her salvation. But Bessie doesn’t let her story end there. Inspired by a true story and set amid the burgeoning women’s rights movement, The Lives of Diamond Bessie is a haunting tale of betrayal and redemption that explores whether seeking revenge is worth the price you might pay. Perfect for fans of Emma Donoghue, MJ Rose, and Hannah Kent.

Author : Chris Albertson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300107562

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Bessie by Chris Albertson Pdf

Considered by many to be the greatest blues singer of all time, Bessie Smith was also a successful vaudeville entertainer who became the highest paid African-American performer of the roaring twenties. This book--a revised and expanded edition of the classic biography of this extraordinary artist--debunks many of the myths that have circulated since her untimely death in 1937. Chris Albertson writes with insight and candor about the singer's personal life and her career, supplementing his historical research with dozens of interviews with her relatives, friends, and associates, in particular Ruby Walker Smith, a niece by marriage who toured with Bessie for over a decade. For this new edition he includes more details of Bessie's early years, new interview material, and a chapter devoted to events and responses that followed the original publication in 1971.

Author : Sarah L. Delany,A. Elizabeth Delany,Amy Hill Hearth
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798212171281

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Having Our Say by Sarah L. Delany,A. Elizabeth Delany,Amy Hill Hearth Pdf

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories tell us about the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington, Harlem’s Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. Bessie Delany breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie Delany quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation’s heritage—and an indelible impression on our lives.

Author : Ursula Howard
Publisher : The Endless Bookcase Ltd
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781914151323

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Bessie Quinn: Survivor Spirit by Ursula Howard Pdf

Bessie Quinn was an early 20th century New Woman, a mother living her love story in the enchanted world of the Garden City. When she died in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918-19, her shattered husband abandoned her memory, belongings and life history. Her disappearance reverberated down generations. Starting with only an Arts and Crafts kettle, one photo and a linen smock, Ursula has restored her grandmother to life. After long searches she found Bessie in the Scottish Borders, eighth child of working-class Irish parents who’d fled hunger after the Great Famine of the 1840s. This biography of a poor family unearths hard journeys of love, luck and loss, weaving historical fact with memory and imagination into a compelling story.

Author : Janice Steinbeck
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640271920

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Bessie by Janice Steinbeck Pdf

As an elderly woman battling loneliness and isolation, Bessie Bascove spent the rest of her life reflecting on memories of times gone by, beginning with stories she heard as a child, and continuing on to a new and unfamiliar life in America. In her old age, while still traumatized after so many years, Bessie recalls living through the tragic events she witnessed during the 1905 Odessa pogrom that brought her here. It was her hope that upon her passing, her life and the lives and memories of those she cherished would not be forgotten. This is her story.

Author : Jody Overend
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460200926

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Bessie by Jody Overend Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Bessie MacIntyre and her best pal, Ash, find themselves in Heaven, with no memory of how or when or why they ended up there. And when Jason-Bessie's trusted companion since childhood, and later her boyfriend-appears out of the blue, she feels slivers of fear run up and down her spine. Is there a dark side to Jason she wasn't aware of? Is he the reason they're here? Desperate for answers, Bessie is willing to break the most sacred laws in all of Heaven on her quest. She has to know. Was it Jason? Or was something . . . or someone far more sinister involved? With the gentle guidance of Angel Mel, Bessie gradually unravels the truth....

Author : Jackie Kay
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593314272

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Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay Pdf

A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1894 and orphaned by the age of nine, Bessie Smith sang on street corners before becoming a big name in traveling shows. In 1923, she made her first recording for the newly founded Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and catapulted her to fame. Known for her unmatched vocal talent, her timeless and personal blues narratives, her tough persona, and her ability to enrapture audiences with her raw voice, the Empress of the Blues remains a force and an enigma. In this remarkable book, Kay combines history and personal narrative, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life, and to capture the soul of the woman she first identified with as a young Black girl growing up in Glasgow. Powerful and moving, Bessie Smith is at once a vivid biography of a central figure in American music history and a personal story about one woman’s search for recognition. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

Author : Betty Kaplan Gubert,Miriam Sawyer,Caroline M. Fannin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053745850

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Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science by Betty Kaplan Gubert,Miriam Sawyer,Caroline M. Fannin Pdf

A look at the lives and careers of 80 men and 20 women who defied poverty and prejudice to excel in the fields of aviation and space exploration.