The Price of a Child novel on Underground Railroad journey
Lorene Cary's first novel recounts Ginnie a Virginia slave who flees with two children aided by abolitionists in 1850s Pennsylvania. The narrative blends history with stark depictions of slavery and racism exploring the high price of freedom and the loss of her son Bennie.
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Lorene Cary
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ginnie
Jack Pryor
Pryor
Cary
U.S
Nicaragua
Bennie
Philadelphia
Vigilance Committee
Northeast
New England
North
Feminist Press marks 25 years amid funding nerves
Florence Howe’s Feminist Press, based on the Upper East Side with a $1 million budget and ten staff, celebrates 25 years while weathering NEA and funding worries. The nonprofit reissues out of print women’s books by Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West and others, preserving women’s literary voices.
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New York
Florence Howe
Feminist Press
Anal Endowment For the Arts
NEA
Howe
America
Kate Chopin
Paule Marshall
Zora Neale Hurston
Carol Seajay
Feminist Bookstore News
Upper East Side
City University of New York
Reagan
At&t Foundation
National Endowment For the Humanities
Baltimore
Goucher College
Baltimore Women’s Liberation
Marshall
Hurston
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Dorothy West
Seajay
Wall Street Journal Best Sellers List Summary
The Wall Street Journal ranks weekly best selling fiction and non fiction titles. The top fiction list features Memnoch the Devil Beach Music Lightning The Rainmaker and more. The non fiction list includes Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus To Be America and several self improvement titles.
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Memnoc the Devil
Anne Rice
Knopf
Pat Conroy
Doubleday
Danielle Steel
Dell
John Grisham
Madison County
Robert James Waller
Warner
James Redfield
Rose Madder
Stephen King
Viking
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Harper- Collins
Sandra Brown
David & Leigh Eddings
Ballantine
James Finn Garner
MacMillan
Robert Ludlum
Bantam
James Lee Burke
Hyperion
Mary Higgins Clark
Simon & Schuster
Mars
Venus
John GrayarperColl
America
Newt Gingrich
HarperCollins
David Smith
Penguin USA
Jean Carper
Deepak Chopra
Amber-Alien New World
Gail Sheehy
Random House
John Feinstein
Little Brown
Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
Gerry Spence
St. Martin’s
John Gray
Lorenzo Carcaterra
Andrew Weil M.D
Neale Godfrey
Tad Richards
C. Saline
S. Wohlmuth
Running Press
Dave Barry
Wall Street Journal
B. Dalton
Barnes & Noble
Bookland
Books-a-Million
Bookstar
Bookstop
Borders Books
Brentano's
Coles
Coopersmith
Crown
Scribners
Super Crown
Waldenbooks
Powell to discuss Earthquake Activity in North Carolina
Christine Powell of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will speak on Earthquake Activity in North Carolina at 2 30 p m Sunday August 13 at the New Bern Craven County Public Library 400 Johnson Street The talk is free to the public Powell a leading earthquake expert directs the Central North Carolina Seismic Network and Carolina Speakers began in 1993 for UNC CH bicentennial inquiries can be directed to Carolina Speakers Campus Box 1793 UNC CH Chapel Hill 27599 1793
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Christine Powell
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
North Carolina
New Bern- Craven County Public Library
Johnson St
Carolina
N. Powell
Campus
Unc-Ch
Chapel Hill
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Alfred A. Knopf
Jean Patteson
Orlando Sentinel
Lorene
Carol Searay
Ston
NEW & Used Books Book Exchange
New Bern
Middle St
Coastal Neurological Associates
C.E. Ballenger, M.D
Khaled Jreisat, M.D
Steven W. Dibert
J. Donald Day
PAC
The
Powell
Cullorens Clothing
Margaret Fletcher
Certified By
Dance Masters of America and
Dance Educators of America
Radio City Rockette
Geoff Loftin
Fred Wilson
Jimny Tadlock
Debbie Fulcher
Interstate/Johnson Lane
Craven County
Interstate
Johnson Lane
Tryon Palace Drive
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