from the back cover: If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you do then? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back f…
Who told people that God loved them? Who died on the cross? What happened on the first Easter Day? Find out the answers by reading these timeless stories from the Bible, and learn about the God who made you and me and all the world.
Who told people that God loved them? Who died on the cross? What happened on the first Easter Day? Find out the answers by reading these timeless stories from the Bible, and learn about the God who made you and me and all the world.
Widely acclaimed as one of the finest books ever written on race and class divisions in America, this powerful novel reflects the forces of poverty, injustice, and hopelessness that continue to shape society.
Black Boy is a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. An enduring story of one young man's coming of age during a particular time and place, Black Boy remains a seminal text in our history about what it means to be a man, black, and Southern in America.