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Richard Church
Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908–1960) was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of African Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence. His best known works include the novella collection Uncle Tom's Children (1938), the novel Native Son (1940), and the memoir Black Boy (1945). Literary critics believe his work helped change race relations in the United States in the mid-20th century.
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A squirrel called Rufus
Here's a book for the whole family- in the same sense as is Wind in the willows. It has a fantasy quality- but it has adventure and vitality and excitement, along with a vibrant sense of woodland and pasture. Rufus is the leader of as fierce an army as ever defended the English homeland, -- an army of native red squirrels battling the invading grey squirrels. Though there is a great deal of personalizing the squirrels remain squirrels, and the lesser characters are compounded of that same sort of stuff that makes them live in the reader's memory.
Down River
2007
Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to wipe out the memory of his family's rejection. Until a phone call from his best friend Summons him back to Red Water Farm. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return - and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streaks, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatnes to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name.