Author: Idella Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813011431
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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The domestic relates her experiences working on the Florida farm with the American author

Author: J. V. Shireman
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251013595
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573694790
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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An African American preacher returns to his hometown to open a church, outwitting a segregationist plantation owner to make it happen.

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Category : Fish culture
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Author: Richard Sullivan
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Category : Courtship
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Beverly Jensen
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 014311929X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Published posthumously through the efforts of Beverly Jensen's many supporters, this widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.

Author: Randall C. Mager
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Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Author: Nancy A. Auer
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Category : Aquatic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Idella Parker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813017068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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"A warmhearted and insightful tribute to the author of Cross Creek and The Yearling, and it's the story of Parker herself, a tough-minded Floridian devoted to her family. A charming book."--ALA Booklist Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, by the black woman who was cook, housekeeper, and comfort to the famous author from 1940 to 1950, tells two stories--one of their spirited friendship, the other of race relations in rural Florida in the days before integration. By turns kind and generous, moody and depressed, the Pulitzer Prize winning author emerges as a woman of contrasts--someone with "few friends and many visitors . . . who seldom smiled." Idella's own life is part of this memoir, too, as she describes her courtship and marriage, her family lineage back to Nat Turner, and what it was life to grow up in a segregated society.

Author: Ossie Davis
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573614354
Category : African American clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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A black preacher returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down the ruthless plantation owner that he once served. He finds a surprise ally in the plantation owner's son.