Questions And Answers For Deep South Gardeners a practical garden troubleshooting book, compiled from real questions called into author and gardening expert Nellie Neal on the SuperTalk MS Radio Network. Advice, tips, tricks, techniques, plant care and vermin control strategies and more fill this enjoyable, informative, and do-it-yourself useful guide for dedicated gardeners and horticulturalists in the southern states.

Take one overwhelmingly male-centered and predominantly white society, add huge portions of power, racism, sexism, a misinformed public and gross displays of injustice, and you've got a recipe for the American way. This collection of essays written at the time of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings holds every bit of relevance now as it did nine years ago. Highlighting earlier civil rights legal battles and connecting their influence to the hearings themselves, each essayist examines in progressive detail just how pervasive--indeed, how dangerously latent--racism and sexism are in our society. How the volatile and often avoided issue of race can blind the equally volative and often dismissed issue of sexism in any race. In these essays, we are given a shockingly clear image of the circus that was the mishandling of the hearings. Explosive, revealling, and thought-provoking, this book yanks the proverbial rose-colored glasses from our collective American conscience and dares us to think for ourselves.

I have owned and used this book for the last ten years. I have used it so extensively it is now literally falling apart! Ms Ross has thoughtfully put together a book that has a spot or entree for every possible resource you need to successfully run a household and avoid the hassle of looking through your city phone book. The book is beautiful to look at with the delightful illustrations. The thoroughness of the possible needed resources encourages you to think more creatively in caring for your home. I have YET to see a similar book anywhere and I have LOOKED. The publisher needs to REPRINT!

Toni Morrsion's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved, deals with the self-sacrifice of motherhood, the black experience in America, and an unescapable history which will haunt the bravest at heart. First, she creates an elaborate, detailed story for the reader and secondly, she spins the literary web together by alterating between past and present. Morrison does an extraordinary job in portaying the trials and tribulations of slavery shortly after the Civil War. Also, Toni's greatest aspect and technique of Beloved, is her use of the past ruling the present, this enables the reader to know more about the character than the character may know about themself. The theme of the novel which I found most intriguing was the aura of the book itself. The gothic tale conjured some of the most deep-rooted feelings from my soul. The book is definately a masterpiece of its time and history as well. And it feels extraordinary to have a piece of history in the palms of your hands.

The story takes place at a horseback riding camp. It includes a square dance, hay ride, and horseback riding. The antics of the girls during their pillow fights are realistic. The excursion into the night with the runaway wheelchair was quite a surprise! Enjoyable. Rarely do you read stories which include characters who are the heroine who have a physical disability. The mysterious missing horse is a mystery worth reading. The ending was a special surprise. Young equestrian will love this story.

On my own, I wouldn't easily commit to a health regimen. Like many others, I want to be in charge of life but sadly lack a vision of how to gain back my power and a strategy to accomplish all this. 'Women in Control' not only offered me sound information and steps I could take for a total health practice but connected me to support networks to make this program work. Women in Control is insprirational, well organized and readible.

~This is a great book about a girl named Nellie Lee Love who lived during a time when blacks were treated very unfairly compared to whites. She lived in the seregated town of Bradford Corners. Even though life wasn't very good in the seregated town it was bearable until Nellie Lee's Uncle Pace was killed. The police said he was drunk and accidentaly stepped in front of a moving train but in the Love's hearts they know that isn't true. When finally they learn the truth Nellie Lee's dad decides he~~ can't stand it anymore so he tells the family he has decided to move to Chicago. Nellie Lee and the rest of her family must face many different new challenges in Chicago. This book is a must read!~

This is the diary of Nellie Lee Love a girl born in Bradford Corners, Tennessee. The town is segregated. The Blacks call it Corners and the Whites call it Bradford. Nellie has called this place home for all of her life. Her family is much into equality for Blacks and other races, and are terrified when more then fifty lynchings done by racists are reported to have been committed in their area. The family is even more terrified when they learn that their Uncle Pace has been claimed to have been drunk that February 4th, 1919 and had laid himself down on the train tracks and gotten hit, and then had died. Nellie's father can't stand another minute of it. He decides to move up North to Chicago, Illinois. The move takes a while to adjust to, especially since the family were witnesses the day the Chicago Riot occured in the year of the Red Summer. This year was the worst for Blacks because Whites were fighting all over, but in Chicago, Blacks were fighting back. Now the Love family is in danger. Will the city ever calm down? What losses will occur during the situation? What lies will be revealed? Read this wonderful book to find out.

The Dear America diary Color Me Dark by Nellie Lee Love is interesting story of a girls life with many sad, happy and serious times. The plot of the story is a black family trying to get their rights so that they can be equal with whites. Nellie's family owns a funeral home in Bradford Corners, Tennesse. In the book she moves to Chicago because her family thinks that Chicago will bring new hopes to blacks. When her father tries to get a license so that he can strat a funeral home in Chicago. Her father thinks that they want him to pay a bribe because he did all of the paperwork. Then Nellie finds out that she has to go to a new school where she finds different friends that are like her in a way. I would recommend this book for people of all ages who are willing to learn. People also read this book because it shows what some black families have to go through.

This book is a real page turner. I live about 80 miles south of where her farm was and I had never heard of her. Its hard to think that someone like this could do the things she did and buy everyones silence. This book makes you glad you were not left homeless in that time. I have talked to some people that lived in and around Hershey and North Platte and they remember the rumors of the goings on on the farm. A great read and hard to put down. Add Annie cook to your list of nightmares.

i read this book years ago, i was still a teenager, I couldn't fully comprehend all that was written, I was just excited to see my great-grandfather's name mentioned in the book, thinking back this reality that was still scares me. Even with everything that has happend since the book was relesed and everything that will happen in the future. I still can't believe that woman was from my hometown.

I have heard many rumors about Annie Cook and her muderouse ways. No one understood the extent of Annie's power that I have heard said about her. I am a victem of domestic violence. I understand how a person can be raped of their will and their soul. This story was so well written it made me embark on a year long investigation of my own. I uesd the directions in the book for the yard sale after Annie died. I found the Cook Farm. Thanks for adding that. The farm has changed. But the barn in the picture of Annie you added in the book is still there. And it looks the same.So is the chicken coops with the bungalo. I found Lizzy, Mary and her husband in the North Platte Cemetery. I was so moved to see that these are real people. I work on genelogy,it is my passion. So I looked the Cook family up in the 1920's census. And Mary is listed as a hired hand! Is this the way Annie got back at her family? Or was Mary a Tax wright off? Lord ,Annie can discust me from her grave. I take my hat off to you Nellie.I could not have listened to the story. I had a hard time reading it. That should let you know It is a very good book1

True, the book is LONG, and printed on THIN pages. True, it includes just about everyone and everything rather than a selection of a few of the so-called "greatest" African-American writers. That is the beauty of it though, it is precisely what it claims to be: an anthology.

You won't be able to read it in a day or two. But it is a reference tool for your family. Read it slowly and carefully, and decide for yourself who is "worth including" and who isn't.

I think this book is great, but if the number of pages scares you, maybe it isn't the book for you.

The thin paper and large number of pages are a trademark of the Norton Anthologies. It does not by any stretch of the imagination make them unreadable. I am working my way through the Norton Anthology of British Literature Volume I and it has about 2600 pages on this "thin" paper. I am finding the reading enjoyable. If you want to critize do on the basis of content of the book, not what it is made of.

Taking upon yourself the task of creating an anthology that represents an entire literary and cultural tradition strikes me as a daunting task. The editors who helm such a project are almost playing god by deciding which authors and which works get into the "canon." Fortunately, the editors of "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature" have approached their duties with an expansive vision and an evident seriousness of purpose. The result is a collection which, although not without flaws, is a comprehensive and powerful sampling of a great tradition.

The editors have chosen a rich selection of works from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A good balance of male and female authors is struck. I was particularly impressed by the great range of genres. Poetry, essays, autobiography, short fiction, drama, sermons, song lyrics, and even a few complete short novels are included. Science fiction writers (Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany), writers also included in the canon of lesbian and gay literature (Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Essex Hemphill) and writers whose works have an experimental edge (Adrienne Kennedy, etc.) are included.

The extensive author biographies include fascinating information about each writer's life and body of work. Bibliographies and a chronology at the end of the collection are also useful.

Of course, no anthology this ambitious is going to please everybody. As much as I liked the book, I still missed the presence of certain favorite authors (Pat Parker, SDiane Bogus, and others). And of the authors represented, there were those for whom I might have chosen some different or additional selections (Audre Lorde's essay "Man Child" would have made an excellent complement to the work already represented). And what about Afro-Latino/a writers like Jesus Colon? With the exception of Puerto Rican-born Arthur Schomburg, they appear to be almost entirely absent.

I am sure that others with a love for and expertise in African American literature will cite other authors whom they would have liked to have seen included. And perhaps others will find the collection as it is simply too big (more than 2600 pages!) and overwhelming. But all things considered, this anthology is a truly impressive achievement. It is an outstanding resource for teachers, students, and general readers.

Hidden with her mother during World War II, Nelly S. Toll reveals her childhood story in her book, Behind the Secret Window. Toll's family is Polish Jew who lived in Lwów. The Tolls have been very successful in Lwów and were better known by their business. The story begins as the Russians are leaving the country and the Germans march in. Everyone is worried about Germans, but they comfort themselves that since the Germans are educated people, peach will become back to Polish lives as it had been before the Russians came. Toll recalls how her life had been affected by living with Russian soldiers and how her father vanished into the darkness. When the Germans came, the Tolls had to move to a ghetto, a little house on Kleparowska Street. The Tolls were trying to make a secret hiding place, like other Jews did, hiding children from the German and Ukrainian police. Toll recalls that every time the police would come, the streets were quiet, as if they were empty. The town was like a ghost town. The author was sent away to a Christian family where she will be safe from the Germans for a while. Later, she learns that her cousins were taken away and have not been heard from since. After that, the Tolls attempt to keep the author away from the ghetto as much as possible. They try to escape to other neighboring countries. As all their attempts fail, the author and her mother live with a Polish family who hide them in their bedroom, in a secret place behind where there used to be a window. The author and her mother live in this secret place until the Germans leave Poland and the Russians once again march in. People may think of this book as just another World War II story where Jews were affected greatly by the Holocaust. Most of these stories are recalled through a diary that the authors have written, and this book is no exception. Nelly S. Toll was a young girl when she wrote the diary, which later because her published book. The book also contains her artwork. It is very rare to find children's watercolor paintings during wartime. This book has a happy-ending. Anne Frank's diary ends as soldiers' march in one day to their hiding place and all of the family members, exception of her father, are killed at the concentration camp. In this story, even though most of Nelly S. Toll's family members are killed or dragged to concentration camps, she and her mother survive and come to America. The book, Behind the Secret Window is published by the author herself, rather than published by a member of her family. This book will make the readers think of their surroundings and recognize once again how lucky they are to live in the world where no on feels threatened by one's race.

Nelly Toll's story is very passionate and descriptive. She really allows the readers to visit her emotions. This book is an excellent choice of literature for classroom use on the Holocaust--one that probably is overlooked.

We were given a World War II book report in English. I chose this book over Anne Frank. The way Nelly Toll told her story, it made you feel as if you were there, hiding in a small room, waiting for the Gestapo to leave, and praying that they don't find you. Even though her family was hunted by the German army, the Nazis, she continued to read, and write, and paint. Though the story has a sweet, and happy ending, sadness does lurk behind it. I highly recommend this book!