Sharon Ewell Foster
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
BOOKLIST REVIEW: Foster drops back to 1838 to tell the story of black Cherokees forced along the Trail of Tears. Her young heroine, Armentia, lives an idyllic life in North Carolina, but greedy whites scheme for the land and bring about the loathsome Indian Removal Act. Armentia watches as her brother is dragged into slavery, and then as most of her tribe, the Deer Clan, dies on the trail. Nor does Oklahoma turn out to be paradise, with Cherokees...
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
One retired woman has two goals in life: to see the mountains and to bring together two lonely people she thinks would be perfect together. With the poetic voice, wisdom, and humor Sharon Ewell Foster is known for, Aint No Mountain introduces readers to another cast of vivid and loveably flawed characters, including a lonely, overly loud man and a woman who wears a tired expression and way too much perfume. Afraid to hurt their feelings, no one has...
Author
Series
Resurrection of Nat Turner volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"Sparked by an indigo sun, Nat Turner stormed into history with a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other. Thirty years before the advent of the Civil War--in the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, commanding a small army of slaves, Nat Turner led a bloody fight for freedom that shined a national spotlight on slavery and left more than fifty whites dead. In The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony, as Harriet Beecher Stowe seeks to...
Author
Series
Resurrection of Nat Turner volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A fictionalized account of the abolitionist's life and accomplishments reveals the mystery of his life, death, and confession through the eyes and minds of slaves, masters, friends, and foes.
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