Songs of My People

Songs of My People
Author: Eric Easter
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316109666

Fifty African-American photojournalists portray African-American culture from the Mississippi cotton fields to the New York Stock Exchange

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?
Author: Guy Carawan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1994-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0820316431

This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
Author: Diana Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781631498138

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the Rathbones Folio Prize Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature A Washington Post "Lily Lit" Book Club Selection

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time
Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1996-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101199474

It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.

Songs of My Families

Songs of My Families
Author: Kelly Fern
Publisher: Lantern Books
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1590563212

In 1971, Lee Myonghi, aged five, was taken from her family and placed in a Korean orphanage. Six months later, she was flown to the United States, where she and two other Korean girls were adopted by a Minnesota couple. They renamed her Kelly Jean. Eleven years later, Kelly found herself at the doorstep of a Minnesota agency, although this time as a teen mother giving her own child up for adoption. Kelly later married and had two more children. Then, in 2007, Kelly's husband found her original, Korean family, and so began a journey that reunited Kelly with the family whom she thought had abandoned her, and brought her face to face with the daughter she herself had lost twenty-five years before. Told with refreshing honesty, Songs of My Families is a moving story of two generations of women forced to make agonizing choices as they coped with harsh economic realities and personal crises. It is also an affirmation of the strength of family, the importance of one's cultural heritage, and the enduring power of love.

Sam Henry's Songs of the People

Sam Henry's Songs of the People
Author: Gale Huntington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1990
Genre: Ballads, English
ISBN:

The story of Ireland - its graces and shortcomings, triumphs and sorrows - is told by the ballads, dirges, and humorous songs of its common people. Music is a direct and powerful expression of Irish folk culture and a beloved aspect of Irish life in the rest of the world.