Books with author William Wells

An interesting memoir that looks at the relationships between black and white Southerners before and after the Civil War from different perspectives. Especially toward the start of the book, the tone is deceptively light describing plantation life and how slaves enjoyed pulling one over on their masters. But as the book continues, the tone shifts when the horrors of slavery and racism come more to the forefront (like the time a loving husband abandoned his wife to a slave catcher because she was actually 1/8 black).

Zoe and Thomas are holidaying with their mother on board a Spanish yacht in the Mediterranean. Little do they know that when the adults are suddenly called away, they will be plunged into a terrifying adventure at sea. Chased by gangsters their prospects look grim, however help suddenly arrives when Zoe's best friend, Nicola shows up to give them a hand. Together with Pedro, the yacht owner's son, the four teenagers escape from an overnight anchorage by slipping out into the night as searchlights sweep the dark sea looking for them.Back onshore it turns out that Mum's new boyfriend is a lovable rogue, but why are the police so keen to find him? And why are there gangsters following them? All becomes clear in an explosive finale.

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.

Snappy the shark swims in the deep blue Mediterranean Sea and one day he meets a human child who can understand what he's saying. Charlie and his older sister Emily are on holiday and their mother thinks it would be fun for them to join the local sailing school for some lessons. While they are doing so Snappy is trying to discover why the dolphins are being so secretive about their exploration of the seabed. The two children have some thrilling adventures afloat when the wind picks up while down below Snappy has to flee for his life.

Snappy's adventures start with a human boy discovering that a very special shark can talk to him taking the reader into Snappy's world. Book two takes us into the underwater world of high speed chases and daring rescues as the sharks battle it out with the much smarter dolphins as to who will find a way through the netting and into the fish farm with its untold numbers of plump sardines and tin sized tuna. And what of the shiny gold coins buried for centuries beneath the seabed the children find along the way?

Snappy is an inquisitive young shark who likes going out with his uncle to discover what is going on in the sea around them. One day when they are out exploring they are chased away by the dolphins' combat patrol and left wondering what they are up to.Then Snappy makes friends with Bubbles, a young dolphin who is lost and together they roam the sea trying to unravel the mystery of the Brotherhood of Dolphins and where have the missing sardines got to....A delightful tale of adventure beneath the waves which is fun and easy to read.

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This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.