Hughes: 1804 books
Remember Me to Harlem
The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What's less well known about Hughes is that for much of his life he maintained a friendship with Carl Van Vechten, a flamboyant white critic,...
by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 1997
The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long...
by Michael M. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Michael M. Hughes’s Blackwater Lights combines the eldritch horror of H. P. Lovecraft with the supernatural thrills of Dean Koontz.
When Ray Simon receives a desperate call from his childhood friend Kevin, begging him to come visit, Ray can’t say no. Kevin promises to clue him in on shocking...
by Langston Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
With the publication of his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, in 1926, Langston Hughes electrified readers and launched a renaissance in black writing in America. The poems Hughes wrote celebrated the experience of invisible men and women: of slaves who "rushed the boots of Washington";...
Her Last Promise
From the bestselling author of The Letter comes a gripping, page-turning mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
*** Winner Book of the Year in Prima magazine Big Book Awards 2019 ****
'Storytelling at its finest with characters that come alive and a plot that dances with intrigue. An absolutely first-class read that does not disappoint' Prima
Fall in love this summer with Her Last Promise, a gripping,...
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - The Incredible Life Stories of Two Runaway Slaves: Jacob D. Green & Louis Hughes
Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave - Accounts of the two African American Slaves and their Courageous but Life-Threatening Attempts to Break Free
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Thirty Years a Slave" gives a glimpse the pitiable conditions of slaves, their inhuman treatment by their owners, the politics of slave markets and their complex relationships with the white population. In this book the author Louis Hughes dwells upon the intimate aspects of his own life...
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by Thomas Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Christmas Summary Classics This series contains summary of Classic books such as Emma, Arne, Arabian Nights, Pride and prejudice, Tower of London, Wealth of Nations etc. Each book is specially crafted after reading complete book in less than 30 pages. One who wants to get joy of book reading especially...
Letters from Langston
From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent...
by Thomas Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Best known as the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), Thomas Hughes was immensely proud of his Berkshire roots. Riding on the success of his most famous creation, Hughes accepted an invitation to write a guidebook to the customs and traditions of his native region. Deciding that a straightforward...
by R. Kent Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 1999
While each of the Gospels presents Christ with a distinct emphasis, the Gospel of John focuses on His greatness. As the timeless Creator-God of the universe. As the Word made flesh. As the gracious Lover of our souls who is the only Way to the Father. Instead of detailing the facts and events of His...
Witch Lights
Book Two of the Blackwater Lights Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The heir to H. P. Lovecraft by way of Dean Koontz, Michael M. Hughes returns with a new tale of paranormal horror—the hair-raising follow-up to Blackwater Lights.
Thrown together in the fight against a deadly supernatural conspiracy, Ray Simon, Ellen Davis, and Ellen’s young son, William,...
by John Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Flowering Off the Chrome is a collection of symbolic poetic projections into the rural landscape. Removed from the urban sprawl, set during midsummer and narrated through a series of dramatic monologues, Hughes has created a rich sequence of see-sawing yarns about the comings and goings on a farm...
On the Origin of Tepees
The Evolution of Ideas (and Ourselves)
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Why do some ideas spread, while others die off? Does human culture have its very own “survival of the fittest”? And if so, does that explain why our species is so different from the rest of life on Earth?
Throughout history, we humans have prided ourselves on our capacity to have ideas,...
by Owain Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The story of Owain Hughes’s childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Everything I Have Always Forgotten chronicles the author’s time spent in boarding schools, his family’s large but dilapidated house, and on the banks and waters of the Dyfi estuary. His stories of boating, horse riding, and walking...