Books with author William Wells

Providing the most comprehensive examination to date of Asians in the Centennial State, William Wei addresses a wide range of experiences, from anti-Chinese riots in late nineteenth-century Denver to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Amache concentration camp to the more recent influx of Southeast Asian refugees and South Asian tech professionals. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Wei reconstructs what life was like for the early Chinese and Japanese pioneers, and he pays special attention to the different challenges faced by those in urban versus rural areas. The result is a groundbreaking approach that helps us better understand how Asians survived—and thrived—in an often hostile environment.Offering a fresh perspective on how cycles of persecution are repeated, Wei reveals how the treatment of Asian Americans resonates with the experiences of other marginalized groups in American society. His study sheds light not only on the Asian American experience but also on the development of Colorado and the greater American West.

George sets out to help a friend deal with some trouble at home and finds himself with troubles of his own on the far side of the world in a home-made boat. Equipped with a shaky knowledge of marine engineering obtained at the public library, and using materials more suited to a tree house than a boat, George is underway and on the run. He's not running from just the pirates, bureaucratics and other troubles that are normally encountered by the typical young traveler: he's fleeing a walking calamity in the form of a beautiful movie star.

The first novel by an African-American, this dramatic tale revolves around the fate of a child fathered by Thomas Jefferson with one of his slaves. Although born into slavery, author William Wells Brown escaped bondage to become a prominent reformer and historian. His emotionally powerful depiction of slavery and racial conflict in the antebellum South resounds with the immediacy and honesty of his own experiences. Brown weaves a variety of contemporary sources — sermons, lectures, political pamphlets, and newspaper advertisements — into this innovative work, which appears here in an unabridged republication of the 1853 first edition.

George sets out to help a friend deal with some trouble at home and finds himself with troubles of his own on the far side of the world in a home-made boat. Equipped with a shaky knowledge of marine engineering obtained at the public library, and using materials more suited to a tree house than a boat, George is underway and on the run. He's not running from just the pirates, bureaucratics and other troubles that are normally encountered by the typical young traveler: he's fleeing a walking calamity in the form of a beautiful movie star.Written by an amatuer yacht designer, boat builder and history buff.

Zoe is shocked when she learns they are going to stay on board a Spanish yacht called ‘The Black Pig’. How will she be able to make new friends to chill with? Thomas realises nothing this exciting has ever happened to him before. Mum is just relieved to find somewhere to stay. Besides the ship’s crew, Pedro and his parents, seem nice enough. Yet treasure lurks just beneath the waves and strange things keep happening onshore.

In Guano Island, George Baron proves that financial independence (gained in the first book, The Treehouse Voyage) comes with the burden of temptation. George wanders away from his education and responsibilites in his boat, Treehouse. While he intends to meet his girlfriend for a summer cruise in the Med, he is blown off course by a new set of aquaintances and is soon dodging bullets and cannonballs in a bloody 18th Century civil war on a forgotten Caribbean island.

MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased to five hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. In fifteen of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made lawful by the Constitution, which binds the several States into one confederacy.

US edition of Snappy The Shark's first adventure which introduces our playful shark and the human characters. An illustrated children's novel for those aged 6-8 and above set on, and in the sea around, the island of Ibiza. Charlie is shocked when a large fish starts talking to him. But is it a dolphin or a shark trying to pretend to be one? Emily thinks her brother is daft. Snappy in the meantime is having fun.

Fantastic value omnibus edition consisting of three books, each longer than the last, bringing the adventures of Snappy the Shark to life. Snappy entertains and thrills young readers for hours with these three complete novels.Beneath the waves Snappy plays happily but as soon as he discovers that he lives in a violent world he realises he muut grow up fast. Upon the surface Emily and her brother Charlie are finding holiday sailing has challenges of its own and the crafty dolphins are waving a flipper at both above and below.Both warm and endearing, and boisterous and exciting all three books for the price of one.