Ergebnis für "Harlem" in Literatur & Belletristik

Der neue Roman des zweifachen Pulitzer-Preisträgers. Im schillernden Harlem der 1960er-Jahre, wo Gangster und Zuhälter, Hochstapler und Schießwütige die Strippen ziehen, versucht ein Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen so ehrlich wie möglich aufzusteigen. Eigentlich würde Ray Carney am liebsten ohne Betrügereien auskommen. Doch als seine Frau ein zweites Kind erwartet, reichen die Einkünfte aus seinem Einrichtungsladen auf der 125th Street nicht aus für den Standard, den die Schwiegereltern erwarten.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, this gloriously entertaining novel is “fast-paced, keen-eyed and very funny ... about race, power and the history of Harlem all disguised as a thrill-ride crime novel"...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! “A gripping narrative, don't miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”—People Magazine “A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our generational wealth...

Claude McKay’s most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel now in Penguin Classics A Penguin Classic Claude McKay’s first novel, Home to Harlem, was published in 1928 during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. McKay portrays Harlem post-WWI through two Black migrants to New York: Jake, a...

Im New Yorker Schwarzenviertel Harlem ist ein Koffer voller Goldstücke das Ziel eines erbitterten Kampfes zwischen Schurken, Ganoven und Betrügern aller Art. In diesem scheinbaren Goldrausch wissen alle Beteiligten genau, dass die Baren gefälscht sind, aber dass man sie für einen großen Betrug gut gebrauchen könnte. Ed Sarg und Joe Grave Digger stellen Ermittlungen an. Sie glauben, an ihrem Ziel zu sein, als sie auf die Leiche einer Nonne stoßen, die in Wirklichkeit ein Transvestit war. Und was weiß die hübsche Imabelle wirklich über die ganze Angelegenheit? Der Fall wird immer komplizierter und mitten drinnen ein Mann namens Jackson.

Un grand roman sur le racisme, la violence, les combats pour les droits civiques, la place du Gospel, et l’amitié dans une langue crue, imagée et inoubliable.

Con man Deak O'Hara is out of the state penitentiary and back on the street working the scam of a lifetime. The $87,000 he has schemed to get has been hijacked and hidden in a bale of cotton. Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones are on everyone's trail in one of their most entertaining thrillers.

Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too close to home... Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the...

Twenty years ago little Brian Arlington was kidnapped from his family's Long Island estate and was never seen again. The trail went cold, but investigative journalist Griff Hadley has always thought there was more to the story - much more. When the Arlingtons' patriarch invites him to stay at their estate to research his true crime book, Griff can't say no. It's the story of a lifetime. But not everyone is happy about Griff's presence. Relatives and staff alike regard him coldly, including Pierce Mather, the Arlingtons' attractive lawyer.

You don’t choose them. They choose you. ‘Tense and atmospheric’ Lisa Hall ‘Chillingly authentic’ Guardian THE THRILLING SEQUEL SHADOW OF FOG ISLAND IS AVAILABLE NOW! Sofia has just finished university and ended a troubled relationship when she attends a lecture about a New Age movement...

When Harlem gets off on a murder charge due to insanity, the asylum he’s sent to feels worse than death, with one exception: the beautiful Nurse Daphane. As their relationship grows, so do the stakes: She has the ability to help him escape, and he has the ability to set her free from her abusive relationship. Yet Harlem has one big secret: He was perfectly sane when he committed his crime. But in the end, Daphane’s own secret may be the deadliest of all....

Per i suoi clienti e vicini su 125th Street, Ray Carney è un commerciante serio: sgobba da bravo padre di famiglia nel suo negozio dove vende mobili a prezzi contenuti. Sua moglie Elizabeth aspetta il secondo figlio e, sebbene i suoceri non mostrino di apprezzare granché il fatto che la figlia e i nipoti vivano in un piccolo appartamento vicino ai binari della sopraelevata, Ray sembra soddisfatto così. Ma dietro questa apparente normalità si aprono delle crepe: sono in pochi a sapere che suo padre era un membro piuttosto temuto della criminalità locale.

From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren—a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous Black debutante, Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois, whose spectacular wedding to poet Countee Cullen was the society event of the year...even though the bride and...

When Bantu Banujala, the King of Harlem, disappears after an encounter with the fearsome Beast of Harlem, he leaves a Kingdom facing an uncertain future. Zogi is now the unofficial ruler, after discovering he’s actually Bantu’s son. Harsha is his friend, but her family history is also not what she thought. They find they have more in common than they realized, but that connection leaves their friends and family feeling left out in the cold. Meanwhile, the kingdom of Ekity elects a new leader who takes advantage of the confusion by challenging Harlem’s supremacy.

From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life. Harlem, 1943. At just twenty-three, Hazel Scott is a woman on fire. A jazz...

In the heart of Shanghai, the boundary between myth and reality is breaking. Mei Lin Huang, heir to an ancient bloodline, and Jack Roth, an American professor pulled into a war he doesn’t understand, must stand against gods and monsters determined to remake the world. Blending Chinese and Greek mythology with fast-paced action and simmering tension, Mandate of Myth is a thrilling fantasy where every choice could tip the balance between survival and destruction.

Named a Must Read by Ebony ∙ Boston Herald ∙ Book Riot ∙ Bookish ∙ Minneapolis Star-Tribune and more! A body falls from a town house window in Harlem, and it looks just like the newest singer at the Apollo...in this evocative, twisting new novel from the author of Miss Aldridge...

It's the height of the prohibition and the Harlem Renaissance and mob kingpin Arnold Rothstein must die. Owney Madden, gangster, and Cotton Club owner, steps up with a plan to take down Rothstein as part of a bigger plot to defeat the tyranny of powerhouse political organization Tammany Hall. Harlem Rhapsody transports you right into the turbulent decade from 1927-1937, from Duke Ellington's debut at the Cotton Club, to the unsolved murder of Rothstein...and the machinations of a secret organization known as The Volunteers.

In the Kingdom of Harlem, they’re dealing with the Harlem Beast, which is coming after innocent citizens and carrying them away. The Harlem Beast is attacking due to secrets that are being held by King Bantu. At the same time, the teenage Zogi and his friends are famous following the ‘Rescue Mission’ in Hago Gate. Bantu sees part of himself in Zogi, but also doesn’t trust him. But Bantu’s daughter’s wails are growing and torturing him, and his advisor tells him he must reveal his secrets for the torture and curses to end.

Harlem is a beautiful, smart, and funny 17-year-old. She lives in the projects with her drug-addicted parents. Harlem must fend for herself and at times do a little hustling of her own to feed their habit. As if things can’t get worse, Harlem’s world is turned upside down when her mother dies from a drug overdose and her father pulls the ultimate betrayal by prostituting her. Harlem is pushed into an adult world and into the hands of a crime and drug lord named Chief, who gives Harlem every luxury she has ever dreamed of, and more pain and suffering than she can stand.