Author: James A. Terry
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499028407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishop's adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
The Blue Terraplane
Author: James A. Terry
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499028407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishop's adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499028407
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Blue Terraplane is a 89 page novel. This novel is written in the local unadorned Black dialect spoken in 1937 Bronzeville, Chicago. Bishop Flipper was a poor runaway southern Black orphaned teenager who encountered a starving crippled old Black man with a three-legged dog. After sharing his meager food with this old man, the old man promised the orphaned teenager a blessed life in Chicago for six and a half years. On July 12, 1937, Madame Madelyn, a frail pipe-smoking elderly woman, invited Bishop to her to mysterious storefront business. Madelyn, a voodoo priestess, warned her guest that his blessed six-and-a-half year period would end on July 13, 1937. This old lady offered the young man a battered old bronze magic ring, which she claimed would protect him from any harm. At noon, July 13, Bishop encounters Raoul La Croix and Paloma Issert. Raoul was huge menacing-looking, baldheaded Black man with a long serpentine stiletto who was treating the helpless Paloma Issert in the local Illinois Central train station. Paloma Issert was a young girl, from Algiers, Louisiana, who was desperately attempting to escape from Raoul. Quickly, Raoul became Bishop's adversary, while Paloma became his femme fatale.
Terraplane
Author: Jack Womack
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Terraplane, the second novel in Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series, is a vision of an alternate realiy-New York, 1939, as experienced by travelers from the twenty-first century. Retired general Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man Jake are on a covert mission to kidnap Soviet superscientist Alekhine for the multinational Dryco. But Alekhine has disappeared, leaving behind a device that catapaults them headlong into the past. And this 1939 is different-F.D.R has been assassinated; the Great Depression has cut even deeper; Churchill died in a street accident; and the world is at Hitler's mercy. The only hope Luther and Jake have of getting home again depends on an unlikely conjunction of the New York World's Fair, the blues of Robert Johnson, and the avant-garde physics of Nikola Tesla. Terraplane is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the twilight zone of history gone mad.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Terraplane, the second novel in Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series, is a vision of an alternate realiy-New York, 1939, as experienced by travelers from the twenty-first century. Retired general Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man Jake are on a covert mission to kidnap Soviet superscientist Alekhine for the multinational Dryco. But Alekhine has disappeared, leaving behind a device that catapaults them headlong into the past. And this 1939 is different-F.D.R has been assassinated; the Great Depression has cut even deeper; Churchill died in a street accident; and the world is at Hitler's mercy. The only hope Luther and Jake have of getting home again depends on an unlikely conjunction of the New York World's Fair, the blues of Robert Johnson, and the avant-garde physics of Nikola Tesla. Terraplane is a surreal and darkly comic journey into the twilight zone of history gone mad.
Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Senate Resolution 266
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
20th Century Un-limited
Author: Felice Picano
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602829365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The 20th Century is over and done with and nothing can be changed. Or is it? Felice Picano's two short novels take delicious what-if peeks at outwitting Time's (seemingly) unbending Arrow. In Ingoldsby, a handsome graduate student finds himself caretaking a Midwestern architectural treasure in which not everything or everyone is what they seem—or when they seem either! But a sexy newcomer challenges him to change all that, for himself, and for a gay youth way out of his own time. In Wonder City of the West, a man too young in spirit to be at retirement age takes a leap back to Golden Age Hollywood. He encounters youth, friendship, a movie star lover, and talents he never knew he possessed. But as he succeeds beyond his dreams, he must ask—is he merely a tool for a shadowy group with a far larger purpose? Provocative, mind-bending, sensual, and entertaining, 20th Century Un-limited is an unexpected addition to an established body of work by an author unafraid to confound and surpass expectations.
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1602829365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The 20th Century is over and done with and nothing can be changed. Or is it? Felice Picano's two short novels take delicious what-if peeks at outwitting Time's (seemingly) unbending Arrow. In Ingoldsby, a handsome graduate student finds himself caretaking a Midwestern architectural treasure in which not everything or everyone is what they seem—or when they seem either! But a sexy newcomer challenges him to change all that, for himself, and for a gay youth way out of his own time. In Wonder City of the West, a man too young in spirit to be at retirement age takes a leap back to Golden Age Hollywood. He encounters youth, friendship, a movie star lover, and talents he never knew he possessed. But as he succeeds beyond his dreams, he must ask—is he merely a tool for a shadowy group with a far larger purpose? Provocative, mind-bending, sensual, and entertaining, 20th Century Un-limited is an unexpected addition to an established body of work by an author unafraid to confound and surpass expectations.
Custom Bicycles
Author: Christine Elliott
Publisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 186470313X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A unique study of the names and bikes of the world's most famous, innovative and legendary makers of contemporary bespoke bicycles.
Publisher: Images Publishing
ISBN: 186470313X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A unique study of the names and bikes of the world's most famous, innovative and legendary makers of contemporary bespoke bicycles.
Digest; Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1220
Book Description
Automobile Quarterly:Vol-39 #1
Author:
Publisher: Automobile Heritage Publishing & Co
ISBN: 1596139528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: Automobile Heritage Publishing & Co
ISBN: 1596139528
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The British Blues Network
Author: Andrew Kellett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472036998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472036998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s
The Autocar
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Automobile Trimmer and Painter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description