Cruel City
Cruel City

Author: Mongo Beti

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0253008239

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Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride-price for the woman he has chosen to wed. A series of misfortunes causes Banda to lose both his crop and his bride-to-be. As he makes his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa.

What This Cruel War Was Over
What This Cruel War Was Over

Author: Chandra Manning

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-03-11

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0307277321

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Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.

Ezekiel Cool Weird Western Box Set
Ezekiel Cool Weird Western Box Set

Author: Rob Moody

Publisher: NCP

Published:

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13:

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The zombie apocalypse of the future started in the Wild West. The complete trilogy in one box set. Book 1: Confederate veteran Ezekiel Cool leads a quiet life as small town sheriff in the Dakota Territory. Haunted by nightmares of wars gone by, he just wants to be left alone. Then a man steps off a riverboat and bites the town drunk, who then bites someone else, who then ... Ezekiel is thrust back into the role of soldier again. Now he just wants to survive the night. Book 2: A fort is supposed to keep evil out. But what if evil gets in? Ezekiel and his people only wanted to warn the rest of the country of the sickness. But how do they make the army believe their story when they're still struggling to believe it themselves? Turns out they don't need to do the convincing. The biters will. Book 3: Can the Blood Flower save them all? Ezekiel isn't so sure. But he's not about to let Myra ride off alone into Sioux holy land to find out. When Jed gets sick, they need help, and Private Shane introduces them to Miss Calamity Jane. That's when the chaos starts. (weird west fantasy, western horror, western sci-fi, South Dakota western, supernatural western, horror western, dark western)