Black Angels

Author : Maria Smilios
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593544935
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Maria Smilios and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nursing shortage. In the pre-antibiotic days when tuber­culosis stirred people’s darkest fears, killing one in seven, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting en masse. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the stric­tures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island, yet again confronting racism and consigned to a woefully understaffed sanatorium, dubbed “the pest house,” where it was said that “no one left alive.” Spanning the Great Depression and moving through World War II and beyond, this remarkable true story follows the intrepid young women known by their patients as the “Black Angels.” For twenty years, they risked their lives work­ing under appalling conditions while caring for New York’s poorest residents, who languished in wards, waiting to die, or became guinea pigs for experimental surgeries and often deadly drugs. But despite their major role in desegregating the New York City hospital system—and their vital work in helping to find the cure for tuberculo­sis at Sea View—these nurses were completely erased from history. The Black Angels recovers the voices of these extraordinary women and puts them at the center of this riveting story, celebrating their legacy and spirit of survival.

Author : Linda Beatrice Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101133813
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Angels written by Linda Beatrice Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of three young orphans who must survive on their own during the Civil War. It?s near the end of the war, and rumors of emancipation are swirling. Eleven-year-old Luke decides to run away to freedom and join the Union Army. But he doesn?t find the Yankee troops he was hoping for. Instead, he finds nine-year-old Daylily, lost in the woods after suffering an unspeakable tragedy. Her master set her free, but freedom so far has her scared and alone. Also lost in the woods is seven-year-old Caswell, the son of a plantation owner. He was only trying to find his Mamadear after the Yankees burned their house with all their fine things. He wanted to be brave. But alone in the woods with two slave children, he quickly loses all his courage, and comes to greatly depend upon his new friends. In the chaos and violence that follows, the three unrelated children discover a bond in each other stronger than family. A touching, beautifully written narrative, Black Angels is a riveting, special read.

Author : Daren King
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780399250385
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots written by Daren King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mazy Rabbit arrives at the Hare Detective Agency, she asks Sensible Hare to find her missing suitcase of carrots.

Author : Sterling Hobbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870673993
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Sterling Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501115839
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angel written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assisting a friend in a search for a kidnapped woman, detective Charlie Parker links the abduction to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, a 1944 slaughter at a French monastery, and the myth of an object known as the Black Angel.

Author : Rupert Butler
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850529689
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Angels written by Rupert Butler and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nazi Germany the SS was an instrument of terror and repression. This powerful spearhead was known as the Waffen-SS. A hand-picked elite of magnificent fighting men whose courage was outstanding, but also a force of cruel fanatics capable of hideous atrocities against all accepted rules of warfare. This detailed history looks at both faces of the SS formations, giving a vivid picture of the diabolical architects of the world's most terrible private army.

Author : Kristen Orlando
Publisher : Swoon Reads
ISBN 13 : 1250123615
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Won't Know I'm Gone written by Kristen Orlando and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reagan has to prove herself to an elite group of special agents--and avenge her mother's death--in the second book in the Black Angel Chronicles, the follow-up to "You Don't Know My Name."

Author : M.L.N. Hanover
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781416584322
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darker Angels written by M.L.N. Hanover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the battle between good and evil, there's no such thing as a fair fight. When Jayné Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations -- and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully Jayné has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a bodyswitching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans, a city rich in voodoo lore and dark magic. Working alongside Karen Black, a highly confident and enigmatic ex-FBI agent, Jayné races to track down the demon's next intended host. But the closer she gets, the more convinced she becomes that nothing in this beautiful, wounded city is exactly as it seems. When shocking secrets come to light, and jealousy and betrayal turn trusted friends into adversaries, Jayné will soon come face-to-face with an enemy that knows her all too well, and won't rest until it has destroyed everything she loves most....

Author : Elliott Chaze
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486824055
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Wings Has My Angel written by Elliott Chaze and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Gold Medal Books, New York, 1953.

Author : Randi Pink
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250768489
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel of Greenwood written by Randi Pink and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the “Black Wall Street,” and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family’s financial situation is in turmoil. Though they’ve attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can’t turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon. But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of residents displaced. Only then, Isaiah, Angel, and their peers realize who their real enemies are.