Rilla Askew
1) Kind of kin
Author
Language
English
Description
When a church-going, community-loved family man is caught hiding a barn-full of illegal immigrant workers, he is arrested and sent to prison. This shocking event sends ripples through the town - dividing neighbors, causing rifts in his family, and spurring controversy across the state. Inspired by new laws in Oklahoma, this is a story of self-serving lawmakers and complicated lawbreakers, Christian principle and political scapegoating.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A girl's account of the violent life on the frontier. Mattie is 11 when her family moves from Kentucky to 1880s Oklahoma. After her mother dies, an uncle tries to get her father to abandon his honest job of shoeing horses for a life of crime, dealing in guns. By the author of Strange Business.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Draws on The Examinations of Anne Askew and other historical documents to re-create in novel form the life of Anne Askew, who was tried, convicted, and burned at the stake in 1546. Follows Askew from a rebellious girlhood in Lincolnshire, through an abusive marriage in the Fenlands from which she escapes, to an underground network of evangelical Reformists in London, where her public interpretations of Scripture bring her to the attention of the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Complex relationship between Althea Whiteside, an oil wildcatter's high-strung wife, and her enigmatic black maid, Graceful. Both are caught in the relentless currents of family and violence. Their contrapuntual stories and those of others close to them unfold against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous black section to the...
