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Books : Biography : Social & Health Issues : Cultural History : African-American & Black
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Josie told me she was murdered. When you're a lonely six-year-old, you don't really understand what that means. All you know is you're happy to have a friend to play with.
Patsy Whyte caught glimpses of an invisible world growing up in a children's home in Aberdeen. One of a family of ten traveller children, torn apart by the state in the 1950's, Patsy recalls a childhood scarred by years of mental and emotional abuse, prejudice and hatred.
Patsy left the home at the age of 15, angry, naive and ill-prepared, but with a will to survive which would be tested to the limit. She rubbed shoulders with the rich and powerful and the poorest in the land, and drifted into a world of violence, prostitution and drugs which almost claimed her life.
More than anything, No Easy Road is a testament to the survival of the human spirit.
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Brand New Item, Fast Dispatch
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‘kaffertjie – a love story’ – Johan Engelbrecht
English translation by Jocelyn Broderick
Winner of the 2007 Jan Rabie/Rapport Award for fresh, new Afrikaans Literature.
"The 2007 Jan Rabie / Rapport Prize was awarded to Johan Engelbrecht, for his debut work, ‘kaffertjie.’ Engelbrecht was commended for his contribution to renewal in Afrikaans literature. Says Dr Andries Visagie from the University of KwaZulu/Natal and a judge in this category; "Engelbrecht is responsible for one of the most original debut works in Afrikaans literature’s history."
Prof Gerrit Olivier
Rapport: 19 November 2006
“The novel shows another facet of the different truths about our past under Apartheid. What is moving about it is the manner in which it places emphasis on human values way above racist categorization.”
Justice Edwin Cameron
Constitutional Court Judge and Author of Witness to AIDS
Sunday Independent: Books Page December 2006
'BEST READS OF THE YEAR'
“‘kaffertjie,’ by Johan Engelbrecht is a provocatively titled novelization of a most remarkable true story. The writer's childless aunt and uncle – he was a West Rand Conservative Party councilor in the 1980s – took their helper's infant into their doting care when she became permanently institutionalized. The title is eponymous, and is meant to capture the contradictions in this story of love, devotion and (fortunately brief) betrayal across the chasms of racial ignorance and stupidity. The book is already making waves in its Afrikaans appearance.”
Justice Edwin Cameron
Rapport: 19 November 2006
“This is an important moment in Afrikaans literature. Now is the time to write honest stories about Apartheid. So many books from this era are filled with self-pity, but this book doesn’t have a trace of it. It is written with so much insight that it takes you right back to that time, as well as taking you back to connecting with your own heart.”
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* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations
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Jackie Kay's compassionate, life-affirming and extraordinarily moving memoir
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Allow us if you will to transport you back to a wonderful carefree time, where lifelong boyhood memories were made and adventure was abundant!
Back in Newcastle Upon Tyne in the 1980s close-knit relationships and unshakeable combined imaginations ruled. Remembering friendships forged together more than three decades ago, long before and out of reach of today’s busy modern world, of reality bites and virtual Xbox adventures, Paul and Neil will take you back to the notorious Cowgate Estate. Cowgate, which lies in their city's west end, was a place so barren and devoid of both hope and dreams that it seemed excitement and an overwhelming sense of brotherhood were never quite meant to happen!
Turn a page if you will and take the road back to an era we all just might remember, to that time and place where we had the greatest adventures of our lives!
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‘Like the best memoirs, this one is written with novelistic and poetic flair. Red Dust Road is a fantastic, probing and heart-warming read’ Independent From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing and finding of her birth parents, her Highland mother and Nigerian father, Jackie Kay’s journey in Red Dust Road is one of unexpected twists, turns and deep emotions. In a book remarkable for its warmth and candour, she discovers that inheritance is about much more than genes: that we are shaped by songs as much as by cells, and that what triumphs, ultimately, is love. ‘A clear-eyed, witty and unsentimental account of the push and pull between nature and nurture. Happiness shines through’ Sunday Times ‘Wonderful, humane . . . This is a book with resolution, determination and honesty’ Scotland on Sunday ‘It is Kay’s abundant wit that makes Red Dust Road such a moving, spirited work. This is a terrifically easy, evocative, and often amusing read . . . A remarkable, soul-searching journey’ Sunday Herald
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"In this stunningly written book, a Western trained Muslim doctor brings alive what it means for a woman to live in the Saudi Kingdom. I've rarely experienced so vividly the shunning and shaming, racism and anti-Semitism, but the surprise is how Dr. Ahmed also finds tenderness at the tattered edges of extremism, and a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith." - Gail Sheehy
The decisions that change your life are often the most impulsive ones.
Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong.
What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom is a world apart, a land of unparralled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love.
And for Qanta, more than anything, it is a land of opportunity. A place where she discovers what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.
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Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the new world, who held the key to Haley's past.
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![Not Easily Washed Away [Part 1]: Memoirs Of A Muslim's Daughter](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BuqaghYkL._SL160_.jpg)
From editor Linda Foust: Not Easily Washed Away is a heart-wrenching tale told in the first person by Laila, the female Pakistani victim of her father's sexual abuse over a span of fifteen years. Because it is in first person, the reader directly sees the psychological impact of the abuse and comes to understand how the abuser manipulates the victim into cooperating in it. We see the psychological costs of being abused--denial, depression, mental splitting, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, alcohol abuse, hopelessness, shame, fear of harm to her family--but gradually we also experience Laila's struggle. Set in the context of Muslim society where the young female victim knows her word will not be believed in preference to that of her "good" Muslim father, the story could have happened anywhere. Yes, the details are shocking, but they are not prurient, as the negative reviews have suggested. They are sickening and saddening but they are real. The details serve to underline the horrible things that abusers do to kids. I learned much about how the relationship between abuser and victim works and why it is so hard for the victim to break away and recover. This story is all the more moving because it is true. It took great courage for Laila to expose her life in this way, even if she does use a pseudonym. Her opening explanation for why she wrote the book reveals her hope that at least one abuse
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* An enchanting and utterly absorbing memoir of a forgotten way of life
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In "Amazon Kindle Kindles a Fire of Creativity," the author describes – in his entertainingly witty and humorous style – how Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Program inspired him to self-publish his stories and how his initial success came about.
Amazon’s latest Kindle edition, the Kindle Fire, is a hybrid ebook reader and entertainment device all rolled into one. It was one of the coolest, most sought-after high-tech Christmas gifts in 2011.
Today, most people see the Kindle as a device that has made even more simple and convenient the process of reading books, listening to music, and (with Kindle Fire, in particular) watching videos.
But one of the Kindle’s most frequently overlooked benefits is how it has eliminated the middlemen in the publishing process. Today, thanks to KDP, a gifted author can directly upload a manuscript into the Kindle publishing platform, and – voila! – in a matter of minutes, a new book is made available to readers.
By simplifying the publishing process this way and making it accessible to the average user, Amazon Kindle has done no less than revolutionize the entire publishing industry.
It is this amazing revolution that the author details in "Amazon Kindle Kindles a Fire of Creativity." In this book, he describes how, with ebook self-publishing, he is able to quickly respond to reader feedback and upload revised editions within months – sometimes even weeks – after he receives the readers’ input and suggestions.
And amid all this talk about how self-published books are often poorly edited, the author counters that, in fact, the ebook platform actually allows books to be better edited, because they can be modified after the readers (not just the editors) have given their comments and feedback.
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Rabbit Stew and a Penny or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard Times and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s
Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community’s long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father’s campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a house-dweller and tried to settle for bricks and mortar, but she never lost the restless spirit, the deep love of the land and the gift for storytelling that were her Romani inheritance. Maggie’s story is one of hardship and prejudice, but also, unforgettably, it recalls the glories of the travelling life, in the absolute safety of a loyal and loving family.