BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • The Book of Harlan

    (By Bernice L. McFadden)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 25 MB (25,084 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 640 times
    Last checked 12 Hour ago!
    Author Bernice L. McFadden
    “Book Descriptions: During World War II, two African American musicians are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp.

    The Book of Harlan opens with the courtship of Harlan’s parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he becomes a musician. Soon, Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are lured across the Atlantic Ocean to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre—affectionately referred to as “The Harlem of Paris” by black American musicians.

    When the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard are thrown into Buchenwald, the notorious concentration camp in Weimar, Germany. The experience irreparably changes the course of Harlan’s life.

    Based on exhaustive research and told in McFadden’s mesmeric prose, The Book of Harlan skillfully blends the stories of McFadden’s familial ancestors with those of real and imagined characters.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Darkest Child

    ★★★★★

    Delores Phillips

    Book 1

    Five-Carat Soul

    ★★★★★

    James McBride

    Book 1

    Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)

    ★★★★★

    Danielle Arceneaux

    Book 1

    A Right Worthy Woman

    ★★★★★

    Ruth P. Watson

    Book 1

    The American Queen

    ★★★★★

    Vanessa Miller

    Book 1

    Perfect Peace

    ★★★★★

    Daniel Black

    Book 1

    No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship

    ★★★★★

    Sheryl Lister

    Book 1

    Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

    ★★★★★

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    Book 1

    The Secret Keeper of Main Street

    ★★★★★

    Trisha R. Thomas

    Book 1

    The Stolen Daughter

    ★★★★★

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    Book 1

    Women of the Post

    ★★★★★

    Joshunda Sanders

    Book 1

    The Starter Ex

    ★★★★★

    Mia Sosa

    Book 1

    The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

    ★★★★★

    ReShonda Tate