"Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan...
Race relations
- Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:
- Author:Fannie FlaggSummary:
When dowdy housewife Evelyn Couch meets endearing old lady Ninny Threadgoode, she shares with her an enthralling story of two women. The headstrong Idgie and the gentle Ruth who in the 1930's ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, a railside...
- Author:Lee, Min JinSummary:
Casey Han's four years as Princeton gave her many things except a job and some bad habits. After graduation, Casey sees the reality of having expensive habits without the mans to sustain them. As she navigates Manhattan, we see her life...
- Author:Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:
When Jessilyn's parents begin raising her best friend as their own daughter, this kindness toward a dark-skinned orphan triggers threats and violence. While teetering on the brink of womanhood, Jessilyn must learn to be a shining...
- Author:Clinch, Jon.Summary:
It was more than a century ago that Mark Twain left the notoriously violent Finn, Huckleberry Finn's father, dead, surrounded by such oddities as a wooden leg and women's undergarments. But just exactly how did Finn end up in...
- Author:Gwynne, S. C.Summary:
S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price....
- Author:Neufeld, JohnSummary:
When the Fickett family decides to adopt a little black boy, they are faced with threats, angry phone calls, a burning cross on the lawn, and an ultimatum from their oldest daughter.
- Author:Gwynne, PhillipSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Gary Black's life in Australia centers around his large family and footy (Australian football), until he becomes friends with an Aborigine boy and realizes how horrible prejudice can be.
- Author:Miles, TiyaSummary:
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated...
- Author:Price-Thompson, TracySummary:
Juanita and her best friend Scooter are both frustrated in life and love--Juanita because her light skin makes it tough to fit in, and Scooter because he is gay. When they meet two fine-looking Puerto Rican men, their lives head down...
- Author:Valent, Jennifer ErinSummary:
In the summer of 1938, the dreams of 19-year-old Jessilyn Lassiter begin to come true when her long-time crush falls for her. But their budding romance is interrupted when a young black doctor comes to her small Virginia town, capturing...
- Author:Macdonald, Ian, O'Keefe, BettySummary:
Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the...
- Author:Burke, James LeeSummary:
Dave Robicheaux, New Orleans detective, is puzzled when street hustler Sonny Boy Marsallus slips a Vietnam war diary into his hand. Soon old debts and ancient burial sites create a web of intrigue linking Iberia Parish to more dangerous...
- Author:Phillips, PatrickSummary:
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children. Many black residents were...
- Author:GARDNER, FrankSummary:
BLOOD and SAND is the story of a man who was left for dead but - and against all odds - survived. And not only did Frank Gardner survive but, drawing on his journalistic calling, he has given us an extraordinary, terrifying account of...
- Author:Phillips, Michael R.Summary:
Before the war, Rosewood Plantation is large and prosperous. During the war years, women and slaves struggle to keep it running. But in the bloody days following the Northern victory, a marauding band of Union soldiers ravages Rosewood...
- Author:Twain, Mark, Clemens, SamualSummary:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River.
- Author:Lapierre, DominiqueSummary:
When the first Dutch Calvinist settlers arrived in South Africa, they believed that they had been chosen by God to rule over the world. Their bloody and fervent saga would culminate three centuries later in the establishment of...
- Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:
- Author:Steigerwald, BillSummary:
In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust life was for the ten million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and...