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Author: Geneva H. Southall
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780810845459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. In this focused, consequential study, Southall reformulates the debate surrounding Blind Tom and expands its dimensions significantly.
Author: Thomas Harbin
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1934938874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references (p. 228-230).
Author: Tom Dunkel
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0802121373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
Author: Jeffery Renard Allen
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 1555970923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. Song of the Shank opens in 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere—inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots—who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother. As the novel ranges from Tom's boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him.
Author: Anne Holt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-06-05
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1451634900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt’s international bestselling mystery series featuring detective Hanne Wilhelmsen, last seen in 1222. A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. A couple of days later another lawyer is found shot to death. Soon police officers Håkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer’s apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open.
Author: Glenda Armand
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780807509418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA celebration of a remarkable, overlooked musical great.
Author: John Ernest
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0199731489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume approaches the history of slave testimony in three ways: by prioritising the broad tradition over individual authors; by representing inter-disciplinary approaches to slave narratives; and by highlighting emerging scholarship on slave narratives, concerning both established debates over concerns of authorship and agency, for example, and developing concerns like eco-critical readings of slave narratives.
Author: Tom Sullivan
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2008-09-14
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1418530204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this inspiring memoir, the actor and singer remembers the incredible summer he refused to let blindness keep him from living like other children. In the summer of 1959, eleven-year-old Tom Sullivan was desperate to experience life the way other little boys did. Blind since infancy, he’d learned much at the venerable Perkins School for the Blind. But he was beginning to feel confined by its rules and sheltered environment. Encouraged by his saloon owner father, he spent that summer undertaking adventurous challenges of all kinds—from pitching in a Little League game to boxing the neighborhood bully. In this hair-raising and heartwarming memoir, Tom vividly recounts a summer in which he boldly attempted—and often achieved—the impossible.
Author: Tom Bower
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780316876681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an account of the Allied treatment of Nazi war criminals and the failure to de-Nazify Germany. Of approximately 150,000 known mass murderers, only about 30,000 had been prosecuted.
Author: Tom Sullivan
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTom Sullivan was born blind but grew up unwilling to be constrained by his lack of sight, taking on wrestling, baseball, piano, writing and girlfriends with vigorous enthusiasm.
