Growing up in Willowridge, Wisconsin, Earl "Earwig" Gunderman, a simple-minded teenager, has always depended on his older brother, Jimmy, for guidance and protection, but when Jimmy is sent off to war in the Pacific, only to return after three years as a prisoner of war, Earwig is thrust into the unexpected role of protector. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Original. 20,000 first printing.
Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities ...
King had ghosted an earnest thank-you to Morgan's facetious letter about the congressman's proposed legislation to outlaw piranha fish. Their correspondence went on for around five generations of ...
Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany.
Will Carrie's attempt to aid her friends end in tragedy for all? Can she trust God to protect her when acting on the truth puts her in grave danger? A richly woven story of courage and hope tested in the crucible of war.
I just kept telling myself, every day, every hour, that I had to live through it to come home for you.” The corners of my mouth feel like they is getting tugged down when he says this. I go over and I give Jimmy a hug, and I don't feel ...
She carried me to the front, and apparently I played football in her tummy, though the doctor said the kicking was actually hiccups. We were living in the Northampton suburb of Kingsthorpe when she went into Barratt Maternity Home and ...
Much that remains the same would not be missed if it could somehow be carried away with the ruined appliances and the moldy drywall: the crime that blossomed in New Orleans just like in every other heavily poor and black urban area, ...
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the concept of race in the United States from the 1830s, when the abolitionists rose to prominence, until the 1880s, when the Jim Crow regime commenced.
And I was—but not how one imagines; that day, the child in me died and the idyllic world I lived in died too. ... This first transition catapulted me into an ... Many of us carry a negative image 32 Coming for to Carry Me Home.
With an obsession for the Guinness Book of Records, a keenly inquisitive mind, and a kind of faith, John remains hopeful despite the unfavorable cards life deals him. This is one year in a boy’s life.