Still Missing Beulah
Still Missing Beulah

Author: Joan Lipinsky Cochran

Publisher:

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780692298350

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Still Missing Beulah: Stories of Blacks and Jews in Mid-Century Miami It's the 1950s and Miami businessman Tootsie Plotnik counts his Bahamian mistress and his black business associates among his dearest friends. But he also refers to his African American employees using the derogatory Yiddish term, schvartz, and comes within inches of murdering an unarmed black teenager. Using linked short stories and brief historical accounts, Still Missing Beulah takes the reader into the heart and mind of an aging Jewish businessman whose prejudices are challenged by the black people who enter his life. Written in the same vein as The Help, this collection documents the struggles Jews and blacks faced during an era when both groups experienced rampant discrimination and signs prohibiting Jews and blacks in hotels and clubs were as pervasive as palm trees and mosquitoes.

The Hasidic Rebbe's Son
The Hasidic Rebbe's Son

Author: Joan Lipinsky Cochran

Publisher: Becks Ruchinsky Mystery

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780999828038

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The murder of an ultra-religious student seeking refuge in her home forces an investigative reporter to explore the seedy underside of South Beach's glitzy nightclub scene and the insular world of Hasidic Judaism to find his killer. Boca Raton reporter Becks Ruchinsky is surprised when her son, Gabe, brings a frightened young man home from college and asks her to hide him. Menachem left his Hasidic community under mysterious circumstances and fears being kidnapped. Grateful to the young man for befriending her son, whose Asperger's makes friendships difficult, Becks takes in the boy. Six days later, he's found floating in a canal. Police insist Menachem's drowning was an accident but Becks isn't buying. Her investigation takes her from the gritty underworld of South Beach to secretive Hasidic communities in Miami and New York. With the help of her ex-gangster father Tootsie and a nosy Hasidic shopkeeper, Becks discovers the leader of a cult-like religious community is subverting rabbinic law to conceal ugly truths. As she uncovers layer upon layer of lies and deceptions, Becks discovers her son's life may depend on her ability to unearth these secrets.

On Beulah Height
On Beulah Height

Author: Reginald Hill

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007313174

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Fifteen years ago a community was moved out of Dendale to make way for a new reservoir. Everyone left except for the four inhabitants nobody could find - Benny Lightfoot and the three little girls he was suspected of abducting. Now another girl has disappeared.

Fire in Beulah
Fire in Beulah

Author: Rilla Askew

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-12-31

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1101200219

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“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter’s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories – and those of others close to them – unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city’s prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah

Author: Rita Dove

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 9780887480218

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Collects poems that tell a fictionalized version of the lives of the authors's maternal grandparents.

Assisted
Assisted

Author: Harris Tobias

Publisher: Harris Tobias

Published: 2011-11-30

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1466153245

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An aging and demented homicide detective and his long dead partner team up to solve one last case.

Skeptical Inquiry and Religious Awakening in Beulah, by Augusta Jane Evans
Skeptical Inquiry and Religious Awakening in Beulah, by Augusta Jane Evans

Author: Robert Milton Underwood, Jr.

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 1304817776

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Beulah, by Augusta Jane Evans, was hugely successful at the time it was published in America in 1859. A semi-autobiographical account, the author felt it was her duty to warn readers of the problems she had experienced with religious skepticism. Advances in science after the Middle Ages led to the increasing valuation of reason and objectivity. By the early- to mid-nineteenth century it was quite fashionable to be skeptical, especially about religious matters. The eponymous heroine of the novel passes through several phases of religious faith on her intellectual journey of skepticism before she finally reawakens with a mature Christian faith. She eventually learns to properly balance faith and reason.

Missing Pieces
Missing Pieces

Author: Jerry B. Jenkins

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2012-05-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1414375875

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Someone is playing mailbox baseball in the town where Bryce and Ashley Timberline live, and a missing person’s case has caught Ashley’s attention. All clues point to their stepsister’s boyfriend, Randy, leaving broken mailboxes in their wake, and Bryce is determined to prove it. Will Randy find out before they can discover the truth? Watch out! The Timberline twins are on the loose. Bryce and Ashley are ATV-riding tweens from Colorado who unearth action-packed mystery and adventure wherever they go. From clearing the name of a local miscreant to thwarting a gold-stealing heist, the twins’ growing faith and the strong example of their parents guide them through even the most life-threatening situations. With the trademark page-turner style used by Jerry Jenkins and Chris Fabry in the Left Behind: The Kids series, these fast-paced books will keep even reluctant readers on the edge of their seats. Readers will definitely be hooked! Perfect for ages 8-12.

Lost Suwannee County
Lost Suwannee County

Author: Eric Musgrove

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 162585823X

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Suwannee County is filled with forgotten echoes of its lost past, from demolished pioneer homes to defunct railroads to lost forts from the Seminole Wars. In the 1830s, ecotourism arrived. Local sulfur springs, with their grand hotels and health resorts, drew travelers from around the world for a dip in the same healing waters of the Suwannee River traversed by steamboats. Thundering iron horses brought citizens and industry into the county, making Live Oak one of the largest cities in Florida in the early twentieth century. Landmarks and communities like the opulent Suwannee Springs resort and the once-flourishing riverbank town of Columbus disappeared in the face of progress. Lifelong resident and historian Eric Musgrove launches an entertaining and informative journey through Suwannee County's lost history.