Résultats pour "David" dans Afro-américaine

Après quelques années passées à Atlanta, Toya Gardner, une jeune artiste afro-américaine, revient dans la petite ville des montagnes de Caroline du Nord d'où sa famille est originaire. Déterminée à dénoncer l'histoire esclavagiste de la région, elle ne tarde pas à s'y livrer à...

David Winters has the voice, the talent, and the drive to dominate the R&B music scene. With the guidance of his best friend and legendary producer, Jonathan Graham, David rises quickly to superstardom. But fame comes with its challenges—rivalries, temptation, and the dangerous pull of power...

»Min datter er forsvundet, og du skylder mig en tjeneste.« Da en gammel soldaterkammerat dukker op på Robert Hoons dørtrin, går han modvilligt med til at hjælpe. Lykken er ellers vendt noget for den tidligere kriminalkommissær og krigsveteran – og han har måttet tage arbejde som...

Security firm CEO David Price is living the rewards of hard work and determination. Single, self-employed, and satisfied with his life, he has it all. Things couldn’t be better. That is, until he meets sexy vixen Sugar Greer - a married woman with a dark history that she must hide, and who he vows to protect. When it’s all over, David and his client are left with blood on their hands. Caught in a web of abuse, theft, and murder, David must get back on the streets to clear his name. It’s a journey that will lead him to One Dead Preacher!

Verlin Bluffs, Nebraska. For more than a century a Black funeral house has kept the county's dead: washed, carried, and entered by name in a register whose Remarks column holds what no courthouse form would take. In 1919 a drowned stranger comes off the river with a debt fastened to his body, and August Wardlaw writes him into the book as No. 611, man unknown.

Det är sommaren 1909 och Sverige förlamas av en storstrejk. Dock brottas journalisten Einar Nyman med en helt annan sorts problem. Vem mördade antikhandlaren Nils Nordenfors? Vad har mordet för samband med de mystiska ljud som hörts från det obebodda slottet Hellunda? Och vad har dessa...

År 1898 faller apotekaren i Molkom offer för ett giftmord. Den unga fröken Augusta, inneboende i familjen, pekas ut som skyldig, och har sedan dess varit på flykt från rättvisan. Tolv år senare befinner hon sig på ett tåg på väg norrut, ovetande om att hennes förflutna snart ska...

December 1998. Syvårige Channie og hendes mor, Lina, lever på gaden i Aarhus. Kulden bider, men hos Korshæren i Mejlgade er der varme og pebernødder, og på Hovedbiblioteket kan de tø op ved radiatorerne. Men noget er galt blandt byens hjemløse. Nogle forsvinder. Andre vender tilbage...

Fire mennesker. Fire skæbner, der forbindes for altid. Samuel bliver vidne til et selvmord, der ryster hans skrøbelige tilværelse og sætter ham på jagt efter svar – svar, der kun trækker ham længere ind i mørket. Otto har valgt døden som sit sidste kunstværk, Elliot kæmper med at...

David Copperfield was a little boy who grew up in an unfortunate family. His father died six months before David’s birth. Later his mother remarried to a cruel man who beat him up. David however fought back and bit him. This resulted in David getting sent to a boarding school which he did not finish because of his mother’s death. All in all, David’s life has been a string of misfortunes. His development from infancy to maturity happened unnecessarily fast.

The brilliant, heartfelt debut from one of America’s foremost novelists of Black lives. South Street, Philadelphia. The 1970s: A once-vibrant Black neighborhood, now threatened by gentrification but still a community. At Lightnin’ Ed’s Bar & Grill, working men and winos watch as the...

Set in the racially turbulent '60s, Davids Valley is a drama overlain with magical realism. A self-isolated, disaffected young resident surgeon, Dr. John David III, is pushed by Esther Freeman, an African American ghost, to visit his stroke-crippled and dying mother, Alice David, in Davids Valley, Oklahoma, John’s hometown, which was founded by his grandfather. After a prolonged absence, at home John discovers he has a son, Sonny, by the strong-willed, independent Native American woman, Betsy Guy, whom he has left behind.

I slutningen af 1100-tallet vokser Wulf, søn af Dagna, op dybt inde i Schwarzwalds uigennemtrængelige bjergskove. Det nærmest uberørte øde er stort som et fyrstedømme og uegnet til beboelse. Alligevel bor her mennesker, de ganske få, som har fravalgt landsbyerne i lavlandet. Her møder...

Et nyt og farligt partydrug spreder sig i Stockholms eksklusive natteliv. Da unge begynder at dø på klubberne omkring Stureplan, havner sagen hos efterforsker Hanna Mansouri og hendes kolleger i afdelingen for grov kriminalitet. Sporene er få, presset er massivt, og tiden er knap – for hvem...

Der er noget rivende galt i Thyborøn. Det samme er der i journalisten Johans privatliv. Det, der skulle have været en helt almindelig arbejdsweekend i det Vestjyske, udvikler sig til Johans værste mareridt. Et lig er placeret midt i de fiskekasser, der bortauktioneres til ære for...

Hver morgen klokken 6.20 tager den tidligere soldat, Trevis Devine, toget sydpå til Manhattan og det arbejde som analytiker i et investeringsfirma, han hader. Og hver aften kører han hjem igen. Sådan tager den ene dag den næste, indtil han en morgen modtager en anonym mail: Hun er død. Devines kollega og ekskæreste, Sara Ewes, har – tilsyneladende – hængt sig i lagerrummet på sit arbejde.

Money, Sex, Drugs and Murder. The grass will be greener wherever you water it!

Security escort David Price is back after his adventures in One Dead Preacher, and he’s gotten himself into another tight situation. With the reappearance of family in his life, even more is at stake for him now. When a prominent lawyer - whom David suspects is a murderer - turns up dead, David is, once again, in the middle of the drama. 

Philadelphia's South Street is a world of contradiction. The hardscrabble neighborhood is filled with prostitutes and gangsters; Working stiffs mingle with winos at Lightnin' Ed's bar. But the streetwalkers are nearing retirement, the gangsters are unemployed, and a community is thriving in and around a place written off by officials and politicians as blighted. Black poet Adlai Stevenson Brown makes his way to South Street in search of authenticity in the form of a neighborhood to save.

Shortlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl—in which Mohammed’s story collides with...