Historische Romane

Delicious Foods: A Novel

Autor: James Hannaham

Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic's Life

Autor: Alice Childress
Vorwort: Roxane Gay

Someone Knows My Name

Autor: Lawrence Hill

Drinking Gourd: A Historical Mystery Involving the Underground Railway of the Deep South (Benjamin January, Band 14)

Autor: Barbara Hambly

Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Herausgeber: Thadious M. Davis, Thadious M. Davis
Autor: Nella Larsen
Einleitung: Thadious M. Davis

Josephine Baker's Last Dance

Autor: Sherry Jones

The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove: A Novel

Autor: Susan Gregg Gilmore

Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel

Autor: Tiphanie Yanique

RASTAMAN: A novel

Autor: Andy Siege

Crimson Angel: A Benjamin January Historical Mystery Set in New Orleans and Haiti

Autor: Barbara Hambly

Roots (Roman)

Alex Haley

Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018

Esi Edugyan

Song of Solomon: A Novel (Roman)

Toni Morrison

Ragtime: Roman

E.L. Doctorow

Der Schamane: Familie Cole 2

Noah Gordon

The Confessions of Frannie Langton: The Costa Book Awards First Novel Winner 2019

Sara Collins

Passing

Nella Larsen

A Lesson Before Dying: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Ernest J. Gaines

" I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. . . " So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.

As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action-sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Signet Classics)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eine Handvoll Senfkörner

Laila Ibrahim

Historische Romane