The Color Of Darkness

Author : Thomas Cobb
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062391275
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkness the Color of Snow written by Thomas Cobb and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like No Country for Old Men and Snow Falling on Cedars, a haunting, suspenseful, and dazzlingly written novel of secrets, corruption, tragedy, and vengeance from the author of Crazy Heart—the basis of the 2009 Academy Award-winning film—an electrifying crime drama and psychological thriller in which a young cop becomes the focal point for a community’s grief and rage in the aftermath of a tragic accident. Out on a rural highway on a cold, icy night, Patrolman Ronny Forbert sits in his cruiser trying to keep warm and make time pass until his shift ends. Then a familiar beater Jeep Cherokee comes speeding over a hill, forcing the rookie cop to chase after it. The driver is his old friend turned nemesis, Matt Laferiere, the rogue son of a man as beaten down as the town itself. Within minutes, what begins as a clear-cut arrest for drunk driving spirals out of control into a heated argument between two young men with a troubled past and ends in a fatal hit and run on an icy stretch of blacktop. As the news spreads around town, Police Chief Gordy Hawkins remains certain that Ronny Forbert followed the rules, at least most of them, and he’s willing to stand by the young cop. But a few manipulative people in town see opportunity in the tragedy. As uneasy relationships, dark secrets, and old grievances reveal themselves, the people of this small, tightly woven community decide that a crime must have been committed, and someone—Officer Ronny Forbert—must pay a price, a choice that will hold devastating consequences for them all.

Author : Ruth Hatfield
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1627790012
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Darkness written by Ruth Hatfield and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Hot Key Books."

Author : Ashley Hope Pérez
Publisher : Carolrhoda Lab ®
ISBN 13 : 1467776785
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Darkness written by Ashley Hope Pérez and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2016 Michael L. Printz Honoree "This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion—the worst school disaster in American history—as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.

Author : Kim F. Hall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725459
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things of Darkness written by Kim F. Hall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged. How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts. Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture. The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.

Author : Michael English Bierwiler
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438959494
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Darkness written by Michael English Bierwiler and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When alcohol and depression overtakes Jim Delano, he forfeits his family, his friends and his job in Dallas-Fort Worth. Jim sets out in his old pickup to live an unencumbered life devoid of responsibility in sparsely populated west Texas. However, the accidental discovery of a dead immigrant worker leads him into a murky world of drugs and counterfeit cash. The only way to recover the life he left behind is through working undercover with his former mentor to bring down the syndicate that controls the desolate Texas town of San Mateo near the Mexican border.

Author : Ruth Hatfield
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1627790020
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Darkness written by Ruth Hatfield and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rescuing his parents, Danny returns to his old life, burying the taro that allowed him to speak to animals, trees, and the very storms that led to his adventure. Danny thinks he's left magic and mystery behind, but Sammael, a creature of terrible imagination, refuses to let him go. A strange new girl, Cath, enters Danny's world, bringing with her a message: Danny's cousin Tom has sold his soul to Sammael. It's up to Danny and Cath to find Tom and stop Sammael, who seeks to destroy humankind once and for all.

Author : Pat McKissack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590511599
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color Me Dark written by Pat McKissack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.

Author : James Purdy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color of Darkness written by James Purdy and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michel Pastoureau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691978867
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black written by Michel Pastoureau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture—from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century Black—favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists—has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fascinating social history of the color black in Europe. In the beginning was black, Michel Pastoureau tells us. The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury. Black took on new meanings for early modern Europeans as they began to print words and images in black and white, and to absorb Isaac Newton's announcement that black was no color after all. During the romantic period, black was melancholy's friend, while in the twentieth century black (and white) came to dominate art, print, photography, and film, and was finally restored to the status of a true color. For Pastoureau, the history of any color must be a social history first because it is societies that give colors everything from their changing names to their changing meanings—and black is exemplary in this regard. In dyes, fabrics, and clothing, and in painting and other art works, black has always been a forceful—and ambivalent—shaper of social, symbolic, and ideological meaning in European societies. With its striking design and compelling text, Black will delight anyone who is interested in the history of fashion, art, media, or design.

Author : Richard Dungworth
Publisher : BBC Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781405905152
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colour of Darkness written by Richard Dungworth and published by BBC Children's Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctor is in pursuit of the robot Agent and the Eternity Crystal. His travels have taken him to the forbidding planet of Darksmith Collective, Karagula. Before the Doctor can reach the hidden Dark Cathedral, he arrives at a village without any children. It is a mystery that the Doctor must unlock before he can find the Crystal. Will the Doctor solve the mystery and will he find the Crystal before the Darksmiths retrieve it? This amazing ten-book series follows the Doctor on his exciting journey to discover the origins of the so-called Eternity Crystal and the powerful artisan who have created it - the Darksmiths. Continue the amazing Darksmith adventure with the Doctor online at www.thedarksmithlegacy.com