The House At Sugar Beach

Author : Helene Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416565728
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House at Sugar Beach written by Helene Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced back to the first ship of freemen that set sail from New York in 1820 to found Monrovia. Helene grew up at Sugar Beach, a twenty-two-room mansion by the sea. Her childhood was filled with servants, flashy cars, a villa in Spain, and a farmhouse up-country. It was also an African childhood, filled with knock foot games and hot pepper soup, heartmen and neegee. When Helene was eight, the Coopers took in a foster child—a common custom among the Liberian elite. Eunice, a Bassa girl, suddenly became known as “Mrs. Cooper’s daughter.” For years the Cooper daughters—Helene, her sister Marlene, and Eunice—blissfully enjoyed the trappings of wealth and advantage. But Liberia was like an unwatched pot of water left boiling on the stove. And on April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers staged a coup d'état, assassinating President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet. The Coopers and the entire Congo class were now the hunted, being imprisoned, shot, tortured, and raped. After a brutal daylight attack by a ragtag crew of soldiers, Helene, Marlene, and their mother fled Sugar Beach, and then Liberia, for America. They left Eunice behind. A world away, Helene tried to assimilate as an American teenager. At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill she found her passion in journalism, eventually becoming a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. She reported from every part of the globe—except Africa—as Liberia descended into war-torn, third-world hell. In 2003, a near-death experience in Iraq convinced Helene that Liberia—and Eunice—could wait no longer. At once a deeply personal memoir and an examination of a violent and stratified country, The House at Sugar Beach tells of tragedy, forgiveness, and transcendence with unflinching honesty and a survivor's gentle humor. And at its heart, it is a story of Helene Cooper’s long voyage home.

Author : Helene Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697376
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame President written by Helene Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa’s history. Madame President is the inspiring, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf’s evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking executive, from a victim of domestic violence to a political icon, from a post-war president to a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Helene Cooper deftly weaves Sirleaf’s personal story into the larger narrative of the coming of age of Liberian women. The highs and lows of Sirleaf’s life are filled with indelible images; from imprisonment in a jail cell for standing up to Liberia’s military government to addressing the United States Congress, from reeling under the onslaught of the Ebola pandemic to signing a deal with Hillary Clinton when she was still Secretary of State that enshrined American support for Liberia’s future. Sirleaf’s personality shines throughout this riveting biography. Ultimately, Madame President is the story of Liberia’s greatest daughter, and the universal lessons we can all learn from this “Oracle” of African women.

Author : Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061353477
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Child Will Be Great written by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa's "Iron Lady"—was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of the West African nation. In this stirring memoir, Sirleaf shares the inside story of her rise to power, including her early childhood; her experiences with abuse, imprisonment, and exile; and her fight for democracy and social justice. This compelling tale of survival reveals Sirleaf's determination to succeed in multiple worlds: from her studies in the United States to her work as an international bank executive to her election campaigning in some of Liberia's most desperate and war-torn villages and neighborhoods. It is also the story of an outspoken political and social reformer who, despite danger, fought the oppression of dictators and championed change. By sharing her story, Sirleaf encourages women everywhere to pursue leadership roles at the highest levels of power, and gives us all hope that, with perseverance, we can change the world.

Author : Helene Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743266242
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House at Sugar Beach written by Helene Cooper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces her childhood in war-torn Liberia and her reunion with a foster sister who had been left behind when her family fled the region.

Author : Lena Englund
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031366360
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home and Nation in Anglophone Autobiographies of Africa written by Lena Englund and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at contemporary autobiographical works by writers with African backgrounds in relation to the idea of ‘place’. It examines eight authors’ works – Helen Cooper’s The House at Sugar Beach, Sisonke Msimang’s Always Another Country, Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland, Douglas Rogers’s The Last Resort, Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s Son of Elsewhere, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil’s The Girl Who Smiled Beads and Aminatta Forna’s autobiographical writing – to argue that place is particularly central to personal narrative in texts whose authors have migrated multiple times. Spanning Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Rwanda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, this book interrogates the label ‘African’ writing which has been criticized for ignoring local contexts. It demonstrates how in their works these writers seek to reconnect with a bygone ‘Africa’, often after complex experiences of political upheavals and personal loss. The chapters also provide in-depth analyses of key concepts related to place and autobiography: place and privilege, place and trauma, and the relationship between place and nation.

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809095424
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It written by James Ciment and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of Liberia, founded and settled by a small group of African Americans who left early 19th century America to free themselves from prejudice, but ended up persecuting the area's natives in a way that mirrored their own histories.

Author : Jessica Dee Rohm
Publisher : Jessica Dee Rohm
ISBN 13 : 1453650091
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugar Tower written by Jessica Dee Rohm and published by Jessica Dee Rohm. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the real estate market crashed, New York's most well known developer has to struggle to keep his family dynasty afloat. The developer's wife is found dead in the swimming pool of his most recent condominium complex. An investigative reporter covering the story of the wife's death uncovers many other interesting things about the family and the occupants of the new complex.

Author : Susan E. Lindsey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813179343
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Brought Us Here written by Susan E. Lindsey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses.... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate themselves to an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia explores the motives and attitudes of colonization supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonization was driven solely by racism or forced exile.

Author : Edward B. Kissam Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418403393
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Mart written by Edward B. Kissam Jr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bossy Davis, an obese sixty-year-old manager of the Rebel Mart convenience store, is absorbed in the drudgery of her everyday life. She dreams of retirement. Stan White is a thirty-year-old party animal whose family has had a house on the ocean in Sugar Beach for years. Bossy considers Stan a true friend and confidant. The owner of the Rebel Mart is George Foster who is in poor health. George has made Bossy ten percent owner of the store much to the dismay of his spoiled daughter, Allison. Meanwhile, Bossy has become addicted to pain killers taken to sooth her swollen, red feet. One afternoon following Stans weekend fishing trip, Bossy and Stan go to Georges house and find him in a state of post stroke incapacitation. Stan calls Allison who is living in Wyoming with her boyfriend. Allison heads home to take care of her father and oversee the family business. The result sets off a life-changing chain of events leading Bossy through the sale of the Rebel Mart, overdosing on national tabloid TV and finally rehab with a fresh start.

Author : Junior League of Fort Walton Beach
Publisher : Junior League of Fort Walton Beach
ISBN 13 : 9780961356200
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sugar Beach written by Junior League of Fort Walton Beach and published by Junior League of Fort Walton Beach. This book was released on 1984-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cookbook has strong hors d'oeuvres and dessert sections, fantastic seafood recipes, and House Specialties from the finest restaurants along the Gulf Coast. Tempt your senses on the sugary-white sand beaches of Florida.