Picking Cotton

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429962151
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Picking Cotton by : Jennifer Thompson-Cannino

Download or read book Picking Cotton written by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.

A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2)

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Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 144120847X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2) by : Michael Phillips

Download or read book A Day to Pick Your Own Cotton (Shenandoah Sisters Book #2) written by Michael Phillips and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of Shenandoah Sisters. Mayme and Katie, from entirely different worlds, have been thrown together in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War. Just teenagers, they are left to survive only by their own wits and shared experiences. Gradually, they are learning to appreciate each other's strengths and to shore up each other's weaknesses. Out of their efforts to simply stay alive comes a growing awareness of the Lord's love and care for them, as well as the dim outlines of a plan to keep Rosewood Plantation operating. The book continues the story begun in Angels Watching Over Me, of two very appealing but contrasting characters and their secret mission to provide a sanctuary for others who have been left alone and adrift by a tragic war.

Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The

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Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764227025
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Color of Your Skin Ain't the Color of Your Heart, The written by Michael Phillips and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katie and Mayme face new challenges to their safety and the survival of the plantation. Shenandoah Sisters book 3.

Day to Pick Your Own Cotton, A

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Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764227017
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Day to Pick Your Own Cotton, A written by Michael Phillips and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two very different girls, one the daughter of a slave, the other the daughter of a plantation owner, must fight to stay allive--and together--after being orphaned by the Civil War.

Working Cotton

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152996246
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (962 download)

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Book Synopsis Working Cotton by : Sherley Anne Williams

Download or read book Working Cotton written by Sherley Anne Williams and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

The Circuit

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Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317971
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Circuit by : Francisco Jiménez

Download or read book The Circuit written by Francisco Jiménez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about the life of a migrant family.

Angels Watching Over Me

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Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 0764227009
Total Pages : 319 pages
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Book Synopsis Angels Watching Over Me by : Michael Phillips

Download or read book Angels Watching Over Me written by Michael Phillips and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two girls, brought together amid the turmoil of the Civil War, are forced to break down prejudices to survive. Shenandoah Sisters Book 1.

Empire of Cotton

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375713964
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire of Cotton by : Sven Beckert

Download or read book Empire of Cotton written by Sven Beckert and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.

A Painted House

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Publisher : Dell Books
ISBN 13 : 044023722X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis A Painted House by : John Grisham

Download or read book A Painted House written by John Grisham and published by Dell Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community

Dreamland Burning

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Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316384941
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Book Synopsis Dreamland Burning by : Jennifer Latham

Download or read book Dreamland Burning written by Jennifer Latham and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

If Your Back's Not Bent

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743296842
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis If Your Back's Not Bent by : Dorothy F. Cotton

Download or read book If Your Back's Not Bent written by Dorothy F. Cotton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the Citizenship Education Program, Dorothy Cotton, recounts the accomplishments of the program and her experiences in the civil rights movement.

Ain't Going Back to No Cotton Patch

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481763857
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)

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Book Synopsis Ain't Going Back to No Cotton Patch by : Terry R. Thomas

Download or read book Ain't Going Back to No Cotton Patch written by Terry R. Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast cars, law men, moonshine, romance in the cotton fields, and wild cat whiskey! It was Garden City, Alabama the spring of 1946. Boys were coming home. World War II was over. Many mothers were learning that their sons would not be coming home. Garden City was beginning to settle back in to a nice easy routine. Mr. Sam the local merchant was getting in his sugar orders for the season. The farmers were looking for good crops, and the moonshiners, were looking forward to make good on their orders. A certain revenuer from DC was poking around town. He was trying his best to find out about this "special shine" that everyone was talking about. Cracker Black, the brains behind the operation has a 50 gallon pot making moonshine for a local man named Hollis. Now Hollis is a nefarious character ran several juke joints out on 78 hwy on the strip. When word got round to Cracker his shine was wanted in Memphis and St Louis he had to ramp up the production. He hires two black fellers Big George and Little Willie right out the cotton patch. They are able to work at night in the woods and not be seen by the law because of them being black. When the sleepy little town's folk turn off their lights for the night, the moonshiners go to work making that good old Alabama Shine. Life was good, again.....

Never Be Sick Again

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757396283
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Book Synopsis Never Be Sick Again by : Raymond Francis

Download or read book Never Be Sick Again written by Raymond Francis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Raymond Francis, a chemist and a graduate of MIT, found himself in a hospital, battling for his life. The diagnosis: acute chemical hepatitis, chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivities, and several autoimmune syndromes, causing him to suffer fatigue, dizziness, impaired memory, heart palpitations, diarrhea, numbness, seizures and numerous other ailments. Knowing death was imminent unless he took action, Francis decided to research solutions for his disease himself. His findings and eventual recovery led him to conclude that almost all disease can be both prevented and reversed. In Never Be Sick Again, Francis presents a seminal work based on these findings — a revolutionary theory of health and disease: there is only one disease (malfunctioning cells), only two causes of disease (deficiency and toxicity), and six pathways to health and disease (nutrition, toxins, psychological, physical, genetic, and medical). This remarkable book answers the questions: What is health? What is disease? Why do people get sick? How can disease be prevented? How can it be reversed? It will teach readers, in one easy lesson, an entirely new way to look at health and disease — an approach that is easy to understand, yet so powerful that they may, indeed, never have to be sick again. Providing a basic understanding of health and disease, this book takes the mystery out of disease. It provides readers, no matter what their present physical condition, a holistic approach to living that will empower them to get well — and stay well.

Lights on Cotton Rock

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Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 1786033380
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Lights on Cotton Rock by : David Litchfield

Download or read book Lights on Cotton Rock written by David Litchfield and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An out-of-this-world picture book from David Litchfield, the best-selling author of The Bear and the Piano and Grandad's Secret Giant. Longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. ***** Stunning images with a powerful message ***** Magical, heartwarming and imaginative! ***** Another amazing story by David Litchfield Heather is a little girl who wants to go to Outer Space, where the stars sparkle with magic and wonder. When a spaceship lands at Cotton Rock, it seems that all of her dreams have come true. But soon the alien has to leave. Will the spaceship ever come back? And if it does, is Heather ready to leave everything on Earth behind? This beautiful story for ages 4-7 about family and dreams travels through space and time to show us that what we are looking for might be closer than we think. David Litchfield is the author of best-selling books including The Bear and the Piano, which won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Illustrated Book Category in 2016 and has sold over 120,000 copies in the UK. Don't miss David's other books: The Bear and the Piano (1) The Bear, the Piano, The Dog and the Fiddle (2) The Bear, the Piano, and Little Bear's Concert (3) Grandad's Secret Giant

The Red Cotton Fields

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781469956688
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Book Synopsis The Red Cotton Fields by : Michael Strickland

Download or read book The Red Cotton Fields written by Michael Strickland and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Cotton Fields is story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. The reader will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave) as they rise to become two of the richest men in the world. Also, The Red Cotton Fields is a classic love story between the plantation's owner's daughter, Holly Ballaster, and the overseer's son, Bart Royal, The Red Cotton Fields is destined to become a classic. Read it and you will understand why.

The Invention of Wings

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698175247
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Wings written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. Please note there is another digital edition available without Oprah’s notes. Go to Oprah.com/bookclub for more OBC 2.0 content

The Cooking Gene

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876570
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cooking Gene by : Michael W. Twitty

Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts