Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.

  • ASIN: 0061120065
  • ISBN: 0061120065
  • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.      In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.      Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

  • ASIN: 0385542364
  • ISBN: 0385542364
  • Brand: Doubleday
  • Manufacturer: Doubleday

The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)

The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis (The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era)

When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.

  • ASIN: 0742543048
  • ISBN: 0742543048
  • Brand: Brand: Rowman n Littlefield Publishers
  • Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Level 3)

Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Level 3)

A story about Buffalo Bill and his exploits as a pony express rider.

  • ASIN: 0064442209
  • ISBN: 9780064442206
  • Brand: HarperCollins
  • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Republican: An Irish Civil War Story

The Republican: An Irish Civil War Story

Product DescriptionWith the prospect of Civil War looming, Jack Larkin, a veteran of the War of Independence, is torn by his idealistic search for the 'True Republic', the love of his sweetheart and the memory of his dead father. Set in Dublin during the 1922-23 Civil War, The Republican examines the emotionally charged divisions that the Treaty with England created within the Republican movement and one man's desperate struggle to understand his decision to fight.  The Republican is one man's journey though Ireland's darkest hour - a period which many would like to forget, but which is etched deep in the collective unconscious of the Irish Nation.From the PublisherThis novel, which is set during the Irish Civil War,examines the violent birth of the Irish Republic.It is an important book because it tells the story of the Irish Civil War in Dublin - a story that has not yet been told, either in novel or film format.From the Author"This was a fascinating novel to write," says author TS O'Rourke, who spent a year doing research before starting to write the book. "What struck me was the absence of a story told from the point of view of the foot soldier. We are often presented with the leaders of revolutions, but seldom is the voice of the common man heard. My goal was to examine the war from a unique perspective using available information and to present the terrible choices that men had to make in those dark days."But what was O'Rourke's motivation for writing the novel?"I was given a letter that had been passed down from my grandfather. The letter was written by a relative on the eve of his execution in March 1923. The emotion in that letter was overwhelming. He conveyed a pure love for Ireland, his family and even forgiveness for the men who would execute him the following morning. It was a thoughtful and eloquent letter that touched me deeply and led me on a voyage of discovery. I needed to understand what would drive a man like that to fight and die in such circ... [Read More]

  • ASIN: 1456592866
  • ISBN: 1456592866
  • Brand: Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Collins Classics)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Collins Classics)

  • ASIN: B008317G8M
  • Manufacturer: William Collins

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous.NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2 DOCUMENTARY The Best King We Never HadHenry Stuart, Prince of Wales was once the hope of Britain. Eldest son to James VI of Scotland, James I of England, Henry was the epitome of heroic Renaissance princely virtue, his life set against a period about as rich and momentous as any.Educated to rule, Henry was interested in everything. His court was awash with leading artists, musicians, writers and composers such as Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones. He founded a royal art collection of European breadth, amassed a vast collection of priceless books, led grand renovations of royal palaces and mounted operatic, highly politicised masques.But his ambitions were even greater. He embraced cutting-edge science, funded telescopes and automata, was patron of the North West Passage Company and wanted to sail through the barriers of the known world to explore new continents. He reviewed and modernised Britain’s naval and military capacity and in his advocacy for the colonisation of North America he helped to transform the world.At his death aged only eighteen, and considering himself to be as much a European as British, he was preparing to stake his claim to be the next leader of Protestant Christendom in the struggle to resist a resurgent militant Catholicism.In this rich and lively book, Sarah Fraser seeks to restore Henry to his place in history. Set against the bloody traumas of the Thirty Years’ War, the writing of the King James Bible, the Gunpowder Plot and the dark tragedies pouring from Shakespeare’s quill, Henry’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale: the story of a man who, had he lived, might have saved Britain from King Charles I, his spaniels and the Civil War with ... [Read More]

  • ASIN: B01KTK683I
  • Manufacturer: William Collins

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

  • ASIN: B00HTW79KQ
  • Manufacturer: William Collins

The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts (African American)

The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts (African American)

In the winter of 1852, a group of Philadelphia abolitionists dedicated to assisting runaway slaves in their flight to freedom formed a new assistance group to be part of the Underground Railroad—the General Vigilance Committee. William Still, himself a son of slaves, was named its secretary and executive director. Deeply moved by the stories of the fugitive slaves he helped conduct northward, Still took his committee record-keeping to a higher level. He wrote down, in eloquent narrative form, every detail of their stirring, often heartbreaking histories.Second only to the great Harriet Tubman in the number of freedom-seeking "passengers" he conducted through the Underground Railroad, Still let the words of former slaves speak for themselves. In his journals, he painstakingly reproduced vivid accounts he heard from their very lips. And he added excerpts from letters, newspapers, and legal documents to the already arresting biographical sketches, creating unforgettable portraits of the slaves' deadly struggles, brutal hardships, and narrow escapes.When the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished, William Still published his journals as The Underground Railroad. It is considered the most complete firsthand account ever written of the men, women, and children who rode the legendary "Railroad" to freedom. This edition includes a new Introduction and 20 illustrations from the original publication.

  • ASIN: 048645553X
  • ISBN: 048645553X
  • Brand: Still, William/ Finseth, Ian Frederick (EDT)
  • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Tipperary: A Novel of Ireland

Tipperary: A Novel of Ireland

“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary novel—a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland.  Born into a respected Irish-Anglo family in 1860, Charles loves his native land and its long-suffering but irrepressible people. As a healer, he travels the countryside dispensing traditional cures while soaking up stories and legends of bygone times–and witnessing the painful, often violent birth of land-reform measures destined to lead to Irish independence. At the age of forty, summoned to Paris to treat his dying countryman–the infamous Oscar Wilde–Charles experiences the fateful moment of his life. In a chance encounter with a beautiful and determined young Englishwoman, eighteen-year-old April Burke, he is instantly and passionately smitten–but callously rejected. Vowing to improve himself, Charles returns to Ireland, where he undertakes the preservation of the great and abandoned estate of Tipperary, in whose shadow he has lived his whole life–and which, he discovers, may belong to April and her father. As Charles pursues his obsession, he writes the “History” of his own life and country. While doing so, he meets the great figures of the day, including Charles Parnell, William Butler Yeats, and George Bernard Shaw. And he also falls victim to less well-known characters–who prove far more dangerous. Tipperary also features a second “historian:” a present-day commentator, a retired and obscure history teacher who suddenly discovers that he has much at stake in the telling of Charles’s story. In this gloriously absorbing and utterly satisfying novel, a man’ s passion for the woman he loves is twinned with his country’s emergence as a nation. With storytelling as sweeping and... [Read More]

  • ASIN: 0812975944
  • ISBN: 0812975944
  • Brand: Delaney, Frank
  • Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks