I Aint Noways Tired Grandma Hands

Author : Brinase Merritt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483634531

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I Aint Noways Tired: Grandma Hands by Brinase Merritt Pdf

A book that is non-fiction about a black family trials and tribulations and triumphs in the south and a black womans traditional calling of midwifery to help her community and women who otherwise would be unable to pay the fee of the white doctor in town to deliver their babies. A story of a family that overcame the odds and made a way out of no way while farming, picking cotton and being treated unfairly but continued to have love and kindness in their community and befriended a white family that the midwife my grandmother would deliver their children as well and they would coexist on the same land amicably. A resurgence of midwifery is taking place in the twenty-first century this tradition of old has never completely vanished especially in third world countries where 75% of babies are delivered by midwives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : New England
ISBN : UOM:39015011574442

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The New England Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peggy Kern
Publisher : Townsend Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781591941767

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No Way Out by Peggy Kern Pdf

Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford High freshman, begins to work for the neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous than he could have imagined.

Author : S. C. Kirk
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425913120

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An Itty Bitty Murder on the Way to Long Lane by S. C. Kirk Pdf

This is the story of two young men finding their way in the world. It isn't the easiest thing when you either don't have the money or the know how to do it. All these boys had was determination and a higher power to guide them. How else could someone get into so many situations and come out unscathed, and the better for it each time. This book is about learning to do what's right, the strength to overcome all odds despite your circumstances. The most important thing is it doesn't matter where you start, it's where you end up that counts. These boys find out humility is what makes us all stay grounded, and thinking too much of yourself never gets you far. The thought of judging others is out of the question because no two people go through the same experiences or learn the same lessons, you simply make the most out of every journey.

Author : Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780679755333

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Pdf

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."

Author : Greg Sarris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780806179988

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Watermelon Nights by Greg Sarris Pdf

In Watermelon Nights, Greg Sarris tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa Rosa, California. Told from the points of view of a twenty-year-old Pomo man named Johnny Severe, his grandmother Elba, and his mother, Iris, this intergenerational saga uncovers the secrets—and traumatic events—that inform each of these characters’ extraordinary powers of perception. First published in 1998, Watermelon Nights remains one of the few works of fiction to illuminate the experiences of urban Native Americans and is the only one to depict the historical conditions that shape a tribe’s rural-to-urban migration. As the novel opens, Johnny is trying to organize the remaining members of his displaced California tribe. At the same time, he is struggling with his own sexuality and thinking about leaving his grandmother’s home for the big city. As the novel shifts perspective, tracing the controversial history of the Pomo people, we learn how the tragic events of Elba’s childhood, as well as Iris’s attempts to separate herself from her cultural roots, make Johnny’s dilemma all the more difficult. In the end, what binds both family and tribe together is a respect—albeit at times reluctant—for the traditions that have withstood so many challenges. This new edition of the novel features a revised preface by the author and an afterword by Reginald Dyck, who identifies broader contexts important to our understanding of the novel, including tribal sovereignty, federal Indian policy, and the effects of historical trauma. Gritty yet rich in emotion, Watermelon Nights stands beside the works of Louise Erdrich, Stephen Graham Jones, and Tommy Orange.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172113917850

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Herald and Presbyter by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Madden
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0155025430

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A Pocketful of Plays by David Madden Pdf

As with the first Vintage anthology in the Pocketful series, this selection of some of the most commonly taught plays is aimed at satisfying the need for a concise, quality collection that students will find inexpensive sand that instructors will enjoy teaching. The reception of this series has supported the original assumption that students and teachers would welcome an innovative alternative to huge anthologies, which are rarely used entirely, tend to be too bulky to carry and to handle in class. A Pocketful of Plays: Vintage Drama contains six plays that research reveals to be currently among the most commonly studied in class around the country. The plays include source materials to encourage further discussion and analysis, Among these enhancement are author's comments, biographical and critical commentaries, and reviews of actual productions.

Author : James D. Hand
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477283188

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Drawn to Light by James D. Hand Pdf

Eugene Pritchard is an overweight bully. A high school dropout, he has no plans for his future and spends his days walking around town, eating candy bars, and pinching himself out of a nervous habit. His low self-esteem is fueled by his dad's contempt for him and his mom's inability to stand up for him. He is content to be mired down in an aimless life. Things begin to turn around for him when he lands a job at a corner grocery store as a stock boy. He is surprised to discover that he enjoys working and begins to find some self-respect for the first time in his life. He now pinches himself to make sure he is awake. Little does he realize, however, that there are forces working against him, secrets from his past that must be revealed and that will steer his life in a different direction. Set in the southern Indiana town of Vincennes, this story portrays how a person's genetics and upbringing drive his future. When Eugene finally learns of his true heritage, he can finally begin to plan for the rest of his life.

Author : Sarah Pratt McLean
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385309289

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Cape Cod Folks by Sarah Pratt McLean Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Sarah Pratt McLean Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
ISBN : OXFORD:590438387

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Cape Cod folks by Sarah Pratt McLean Greene Pdf

Author : John Gassner
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : IND:30000081677183

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Best American Plays by John Gassner Pdf

Introduction and biographies of Neil Simon, Tennessee William, Lanford Wilson, and David Rabe by Clive Barnes.

Author : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780823455034

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For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome Pdf

An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. For Lamb follows a family striving to better their lives in the late 1930s Jackson, Mississippi. Lamb’s mother is a hard-working, creative seamstress who cannot reveal she is a lesbian. Lamb’s brother has a brilliant mind and has even earned a college scholarship for a black college up north-- if only he could curb his impulsiveness and rebellious nature. Lamb herself is a quiet and studious girl. She is also naive. As she tentatively accepts the friendly overtures of a white girl who loans her a book she loves, she sets a off a calamitous series of events that pulls in her mother, charming hustler uncle, estranged father, and brother, and ends in a lynching. Told with nuance and subtlety, avoiding sensationalism and unnecessary brutality, this young adult novel from celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome pays homage to the female victims of white supremacy. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Author : Wayne Caldwell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307516916

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Cataloochee by Wayne Caldwell Pdf

“A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.” –Charles Frazier Against the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered post—Civil War saga of three generations of families–their dreams, their downfalls, and their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when “where you was born was where God wanted you,” the Wrights and the Carters, both farming families, travel to the valley to escape the rapid growth of neighboring towns and to have a few hundred acres all to themselves. But progress eventually winds its way to Cataloochee, too, and year after year the population swells as more people come to the valley to stake their fortune. Never one to pass on opportunity, Ezra Banks, an ambitious young man seeking some land of his own, arrives in Cataloochee in the 1880s. His first order of business is to marry a Carter girl, Hannah, the daughter of the valley’s largest landowner. From there Ezra’s brood grows, as do those of the Carters and the Wrights. With hard work and determination, the burgeouning community transforms wilderness into home, to be passed on through generations. But the idyll is not to last, nor to be inherited: The government takes steps to relocate folks to make room for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and tragedy will touch one of the clans in a single, unimaginable act. Wayne Caldwell brings to life the community’s historic struggles and close kinships over a span of six decades. Full of humor, darkness, beauty, and wisdom, Cataloochee is a classic novel of place and family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112072702282

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Moore's Rural New-Yorker by Anonim Pdf