What happens when spirit offers you a gift you're not sure you want to accept?Few women could love as Rebecca Florice did -- with a passion born of another world, an unseen world. Ever since the vision of her youth, the vision that brought healing power to her hands, she knew her gift was to be shared with care and veneration. It was a gift that called for the sacrifice of her marriage, the loss of the only man she would ever love, and the illumination of all the dark, hidden places inside herself. Rebecca Florice had to learn that "love never comes to call without its twin."Springing from the powerful traditions that produced THE COLOR PURPLE and RESURRECTION, this unforgettable story will haunt your vision of the American South. Linda Beatrice Brown has brought to passionate life a tale brimming with faith and triumph, suffering and survival -- and an extraordinary heroine who will live long in your memory.

Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder

Brown, Linda Beatrice

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

"A DEEPLY AFFECTING NOVEL about the hidden legacy of slavery--from the waning of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century." --Essence Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. But at the center of their communal pain is Sadie's intelligent, beautiful, ambitious daughter Story, who wants more from life than she's been led to expect. Her uncompromising desire for safety corrupts Story to her very soul, dooming her to wander an emotional desert, repressed, rigid, enslaved to propriety. Her daughter Hermine must then challenge the lie that life is hardship. But can Hermine finally break the cycle of oppression that has chained the women of her family? Can she alone cross over Jordan? Reminiscent of the early work of Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, Crossing Over Jordan deftly explores the themes of the mother-daughter relationship, the emotional scars left by history, the struggle to be authentic in the throes of great personal pain, and the transforming power of love. "Written with passion, force, and compelling clarity, Crossing Over Jordan is a priceless novel that immerses us--even baptizes us--in the deep waters of our humanity. . . . A must-read that deserves a prominent place among books written by African-American women." --Gloria Wade-Gayles Author of Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home "ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING." --Library Journal From the Trade Paperback edition.

Crossing Over Jordan

United States

One World/Ballantine

"A DEEPLY AFFECTING NOVEL about the hidden legacy of slavery--from the waning of the Civil War to the early twenty-first century." --Essence Georgia McCloud lives to see emancipation. Her daughter Sadie discovers that, though she might be free, she is powerless to break with a man who abuses her. But at the center of their communal pain is Sadie's intelligent, beautiful, ambitious daughter Story, who wants more from life than she's been led to expect. Her uncompromising desire for safety corrupts Story to her very soul, dooming her to wander an emotional desert, repressed, rigid, enslaved to propriety. Her daughter Hermine must then challenge the lie that life is hardship. But can Hermine finally break the cycle of oppression that has chained the women of her family? Can she alone cross over Jordan? Reminiscent of the early work of Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor, Crossing Over Jordan deftly explores the themes of the mother-daughter relationship, the emotional scars left by history, the struggle to be authentic in the throes of great personal pain, and the transforming power of love. "Written with passion, force, and compelling clarity, Crossing Over Jordan is a priceless novel that immerses us--even baptizes us--in the deep waters of our humanity. . . . A must-read that deserves a prominent place among books written by African-American women." --Gloria Wade-Gayles Author of Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home "ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING." --Library Journal

Romance

Contemporary

The odyssey of a Black woman in the South in the early 1900s as she discovers in herself a power and becomes a healer.

Carolina Wren Press

The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&amp;T State University. Significantly, the integration of public accommodations of that city and many cities followed. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement recalls a more complete story, illuminating what historians overlooked: that the first Sit-in in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus, and without hundreds of women who sat down, marched and were incarcerated from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-in effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro and even other cities, might not have succeeded.

Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College And The Civil Rights Movement

History

Americas

Women and Wisdom Foundation Inc

Presented through the imagination of the poet, Mary the mother of Jesus is seen as a human being whose extraordinary life is central to the Great Story. The author has represented the face of an iconic figure and brought her to life so that the divine and the human come together as a powerful symbol, both reachable and ethereal at once.

A Mother Knows Her Child Poetic Meditations from Mary

Poetry

Presented through the imagination of the poet, Mary the mother of Jesus is seen as a human being whose extraordinary life is central to the Great Story. The author has represented the face of an iconic figure and brought her to life so that the divine and the human come together as a powerful symbol, both reachable and ethereal at once.

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Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder

Crossing Over Jordan

Crossing Over Jordan

Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder

Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College And The Civil Rights Movement

A Mother Knows Her Child Poetic Meditations from Mary

A Mother Knows Her Child Poetic Meditations from Mary