The Circle Leads Home tells the story of Katherine, a 32-year-old American Indian whose husband died from a drug overdose two years earlier. Now she finds herself working as a legal secretary to support herself and their sons, ages 9 and 13. She invariably falls for the wrong men, but this time, when she finds herself in an abusive relationship, she feels the need to run. She takes her family to the reservation she fled some fourteen years prior, only to find that her people's traditional tribal values are being challenged by the moneymaking lure of selling off old-growth timber and operating casinos. Environmental and social concerns thrust Katherine into the heart of reservation politics and force her to make choices. She must face and overcome not only the barriers raised by some segments of society against Indians but also serious emotional blocks of her own making. As Katherine explores and rediscovers her own sense of self, she cements new alliances and comes to realize - and accept - that she is home.

The Circle Leads Home

Parks, Mary Anderson

Literature & Fiction

Univ Pr of Colorado

FLIGHT TO OHIO: FROM SLAVERY TO PASSING TO FREEDOM “Flight to Ohio” begins in 1836, as 21-year-old Tom and his mother Nellie escape slavery on a Virginia plantation. They soon discover that Tom, the bastard son of the white master, passes as white when he is not seen with his mother. Tom must make a choice as to how to live. The stakes are raised when he courts and marries 18-year-old Sarah Long, a young white woman from a respected local farm family. What is lost when identity is concealed? What price is paid? Tom’s emotional story unfolds against the backdrop of the Cincinnati race riots of 1836 and 1841 and the oncoming Civil War. In a place and time beset with racism, hate, jealousy and violence, the novel’s characters forge deep evolving loves, friendships, and loyalties as they move towards freedom, their ultimate goal. This is the author’s imagined story of her own maternal ancestry. (Mary Anderson Parks Flight to Ohio)

Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom

United States

Tayen Lane Pub

Fiction. When Bunny turned twelve, she dyed her hair so she would look more like her adoptive parents. When she turned fourteen, she had to lock her bedroom door to keep her adoptive father out. At sixteen, Bunny leaves to find her real parents, from whom she is sure she was stolen. Ingenious amateur sleuthing leads her to a most pleasant reunion.

They Called Me Bunny

Teen & Young Adult

Livingston Pr

They Call Me Bunny

Livingston Press

FLIGHT TO OHIO: FROM SLAVERY TO PASSING TO FREEDOM “Flight to Ohio” begins in 1836, as 21-year-old Tom and his mother Nellie escape slavery on a Virginia plantation. They soon discover that Tom, the bastard son of the white master, passes as white when he is not seen with his mother. Tom must make a choice as to how to live. The stakes are raised when he courts and marries 18-year-old Sarah Long, a young white woman from a respected local farm family. What is lost when identity is concealed? What price is paid? Tom’s emotional story unfolds against the backdrop of the Cincinnati race riots of 1836 and 1841 and the oncoming Civil War. In a place and time beset with racism, hate, jealousy and violence, the novel’s characters forge deep evolving loves, friendships, and loyalties as they move towards freedom, their ultimate goal. This is the author’s imagined story of her own maternal ancestry. (Mary Anderson Parks Flight to Ohio)

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The Circle Leads Home

Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom

They Called Me Bunny

They Call Me Bunny

Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom