A Passage Through Darkness
Author: T. Davis Bunn
Publisher: Arrowood Press
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780884862543
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Publisher: Arrowood Press
Published: 1999-07
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780884862543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wade Davis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0807887587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Author: R.A. Salvatore
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast
Published: 2009-06-23
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0786954108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Danger awaits Drizzt Do’Urden and Catti-brie on the high seas in this fourth and final installment in the Legacy of the Drow series It has been six years since the fateful Battle of Mithral Hall; six long years during which Drizzt Do’Urden and Catti-brie have been away from the only place they ever truly felt at home. The pain of a lost companion still weighs heavily on their strong shoulders, but chasing pirates aboard Captain Deudermont's Sea Sprite has been enough to draw their attention away from their grief. But when a mysterious castaway on an uncharted island appears bearing a strange message, Drizzt and Catti-brie are sent back to the very source of their pain—and into the clutches of a demon with vengeance on his mind. Passage to Dawn is the fourth book in the Legacy of the Drow series and the tenth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.
Author: Charlie (Chawtoma) Davis
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2018-07-20
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 1642146714
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Big Percy Jones was born in the South and raised in a racist society. He loses a family member to racist violence. Being an African American sheriff officer, Percy finds it hard to imagine that the reality of racism still affects the black man in contemporary America. Percy makes important decisions as the leader of the Jones family. He knows he must make a moral decision centered on the death of a family member.
Author: Cheryl J. Briggs
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Published: 2001-10-01
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781588511416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Published: 2015-09-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1467776785
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honoree "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.
Author: David Goodis
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1598534467
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the basis for a popular movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The story of a man railroaded for his wife’s murder and forced to assume a different identity after escaping from prison becomes in Goodis’s hands a lyrical evocation of urban fear and loneliness. Other David Goodis novels available as Library of America E-Book Classics include: Nightfall, The Burglar, The Moon in the Gutter, and Street of No Return.
Author: Jeanine Michna-Bales
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2017-03-28
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1616896094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
Author: David Boyle
Publisher: David Boyle
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780955226304
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