Hopson's novel is the story of Bessie Colman, a aviatrix after WW I who, as a black woman, has overwhelming difficulties becoming a pilot, her dream since a girl. Black American men couldn't be trained as pilots, let alone a woman. This book is a hero tale, well researched by an author who is herself a black American pilot. A gripping story about a remarkable woman!
An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the air
A few years after the Wright brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton ?elds with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings.
The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of…
It's a tense, mysterious post-apocalyptic story unlike anything I've ever read. Harris is a master, and part of the power of this novel is that the threats that caused the fictional apocalypse are very real in our own world today.
THE LATEST NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS: chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Mail on Sunday, and Express
WHAT IF YOUR FUTURE LIES IN THE PAST? _____________________________________ 'One word: wonderful. Two words: compulsive reading. Three words: buy it tomorrow. Four words: tonight, if it's possible.' STEPHEN KING 'A thoroughly absorbing, page-turning narrative.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Genuinely thrilling.' DAILY TELEGRAPH _____________________________________ Dusk is gathering as a young priest, Christopher Fairfax, rides across a silent land.
It's a crime to be out after dark, and Fairfax knows he must arrive at his destination - a remote…
This book is a classic which I read for the second time. It's an epic tale of four generations of Koreans making their way in Japan, where they are regarded as inferior. Their family love and ambitions push them onward. Min Jin Lee illuminates a difficult history in this beautifully written book, #22 on the NY Times Best 100 list.
* The million-copy bestseller* * National Book Award finalist * * One of the New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2017 * * Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club *
'This is a captivating book... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us through four generations and each character's search for identity and success. It's a powerful story about resilience and compassion' BARACK OBAMA.
Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja…
Once a boy player in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke is now a hired man playing female roles. Sander's brother Johnny, a fellow actor and aspiring playwright, impregnates Frances Field, owner of a dressmaking shop on London bridge and Silkwoman to Queen Elizabeth. Johnny makes it clear that marriage is not in his plans. Frances will lose everything if she gives birth to a bastard. Sander would like to come to her rescue but has a secret maintained both onstage and off: she is actually a woman. With the help of the Roaring Girl Moll Frith, who goes about blatantly as a man, the two manage to wed. It's a marriage of convenience, but can two women create a true union? Winding around this unconventional marriage, the London theatre from 1599 to 1603 comes alive, alongside political anxieties and rebellion, troubles in Ireland, the Plague, and the aging Queen's failure to name a successor.
