epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:William Melvin Kelley

Part Four INTERVIEW… What’s all this mess about me coming to New York and inventing modern jazz? Right out, there two things wrong with that. First of all, I don’t ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Pitts., Jr, Leonard [Pitts., Jr, Leonard]

nineteen SHE STOOD IN THE BOW OF THE BOAT, WATCHING THE ISLAND approach. It was a warm day in May, and the light spray of river water felt good on ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Jeffrey Blount

TEN Sunday mornings at our house meant sausage, applesauce, sweetened iced tea, and Mama’s locally famous homemade rolls. Probably every black person in Canaan knew about the rolls. Mama got ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-31 | Author:Laila Ibrahim [Laila Ibrahim]

Momma wasn’t back by the time May needed to eat, so Sadie decided to manage on her own. First she unwrapped the little girl to give her a clean diaper. ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Charles W. Chesnutt

XVII TWO LETTERS Warwick awaited events with some calmness and some philosophy, - he could hardly have had the one without the other; and it required much philosophy to make ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:James McBride [James McBride]

Next to that was a sketch, in his father’s hand, of a tiny box. Inside the box was a wooden stove, with small bits of firewood, crudely drawn, and a ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-22 | Author:Paul Laurence Dunbar [Dunbar, Paul Laurence]

"He carried the body home, and mourned at the burial, and a year later came back to the regiment with the son who had come after Robert, and was now ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:J. California Cooper

yin saw the lawyer Syntoll on her way back to the rooming house. She told him she had taken care of her business and to prepare papers stipulating payment of ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-12 | Author:J. California Cooper [Cooper, J. California]

IN THE MEANTIME. From time to time, and I didn’t know much bout my kind of time early on, when I would think on one or other of my children, ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2015-12-29 | Author:Wilkinson, Crystal [Wilkinson, Crystal]

Dinner on the Grounds. The next day at the church, Joe Brown watches cars line up along both sides of the street. Not just the normal neighborhood cars, the newest ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-17 | Author:Nancy Peacock [Nancy Peacock]

THE NEXT DAY we broke more horses. Sedge had an endless supply, it seemed, of green-broke horses, horses he could get a saddle on but could not always ride. I ...

mobi |eng | 2016-06-07 | Author:Yaa Gyasi

“To get the cocoa plants, I had to promise a man in Osu that I would marry his daughter. I will have to use all of the leftover goods from ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Matt Ruff [Ruff, Matt]

The air on the beach was warmer. The salt breeze blowing in over the gently plashing surf felt like late spring or early fall. The shoulder season, Hippolyta thought: Tourist ...

epub |eng | | Author:John A. Williams

Monday, October 3, 1938 Last Friday at The Nest I found Moritz in a closet playing “Deutschland Über Alles.” I was surprised at how sweet it sounded on the violin; ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-15 | Author:Fiona Sussman

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN January 1978 Celia I could not make out the faces in front of me. They had melted like butter against the glare of the naked light bulb. Even ...