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The Color of Lies (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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"The Color of Lies" is the Gold Medal Winner for adult fiction from the Florida Publishers Association in 2012 as well as the first place winner in women's fiction (unpublished) from the Florida Writers Association in 2011.

Forty-year-old widow Molly Culpepper believes her hometown is a place of harmony and white picket fences--until a colleague chalks a racial slur on the blackboard during Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In the uproar that follows, a citizens’ group files a lawsuit alleging discrimination against the high school where Molly teaches. To address the lawsuit’s concerns over academic weaknesses, Molly joins forces with a black minister to plan curriculum improvements and a fundraiser for equipment upgrades. The town’s racial divide becomes personal when Molly clashes with a new black student, J.D. Marshall. His rough language and lack of control disrupt Molly’s classroom, but she is determined to find a way to reach him. Gradually, both Molly and J.D. discover their families have a tangled history involving violence, charity, and misunderstanding.
The serious themes of the novel are lightened by Molly's witty voice and the dark humor that stems from the effects of the Great Recession. In addition to problems at work, Molly struggles to raise two boys on her own, to keep her alcoholic father out of trouble, and to find time for romance.
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    295 pagine
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    Inglese
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    3 ottobre 2011
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    563 KB
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Let me introduce you to Donna Meredith, the author of "The Glass Madonna" and "The Color of Lies." These novels won back-to-back first places in unpublished women’s fiction from the Florida Writers Association in 2009 and 2010. Donna’s nonfiction has appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat, Tallahassee magazine, Southern Literary Review, Midwest Review and the Columbia School Press Review. She has served as president of the Tallahassee Writers Association and currently coordinates the Seven Hills Contest for Writers. Her first novel examines how women’s lives have changed—and not changed—over three generations in a family of glassmakers. It’s a story of an abusive marriage and the unbreakable bonds of family love. The second one explores racial tensions in a small Southern town during Obama’s election. Her third novel, which is still a work in progress, is an environmental thriller centered around clean water issues in Florida. The protagonist is a female hydrogeologist, a character Donna hopes to use in a series. In addition, she is beginning work on a biography of Kelsey Murphy, an innovator in American cameo glass. Donna taught high school English, Journalism, and TV Production for 29 years in West Virginia and Georgia. She graduated from Fairmont State College, West Virginia University, and Nova Southeastern University. She has also participated in graduate fiction writing workshops at Florida State University. She resides in Tallahassee with her husband John. Her website has a couple of radio interviews about the writing of "The Glass Madonna." Be sure and check them out at www.donnameredith.com. You’ll also find recipes from her first two novels and other fun materials.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005SII1AA
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Wild Women Writers (3 ottobre 2011)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 563 KB
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
  • Miglioramenti tipografici ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 295 pagine
  • Numeri di pagina fonte ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0982901550
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Eddy
5,0 su 5 stelle Talking about Color
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 17 giugno 2018
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Meredith’s novel opens with the conflict that a racist slur written on the blackboard by a white teacher brings to Alderson High School and the whole community. The slur changes lots of things, including the way Molly Culpepper, the main character and herself a white teacher in the school, sees herself, her students, and her friends and neighbors. The story takes place in southern Georgia during the 2008 presidential campaign. It shows school up close as Molly, a widowed mother of two sons, tries to deal with problems at school. Confronting her own prejudices and the parallels between her overeating and her alcoholic father’s drinking problem, she also struggles with her feelings about a new student, an African American boy who strikes her as arrogant and willful. I usually have to like the main character of a novel to stay with the book, and I sometimes don’t like Molly. As a former teacher myself, I disagree with a lot of Molly’s actions in the classroom. She often makes what seem to me to be dumb decisionsI and she’s too harsh a judge of other people’s behavior sometimes—in other words, she’s human. That’s a strength of this novel that kept me reading in spirte of my frustrations over some of Molly’s attitudes. The author doesn’t prettify things, not the social relations in a mixed race school; not the relations between an all-too-human teacher and her teenaged students; and not the emotional relations between a grown daughter who tries to mother her alcoholic father. This book would be a great discussion-generating for teachers and for students.
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Sam Staley
5,0 su 5 stelle A Thoughtful and Engaging Story on Contemporary Race Relations
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 gennaio 2012
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One of my criteria for a "good book" is whether I'm still thinking about it well after I turn the last page, and Donna Meredith's new book "The Color of Lies" certainly fits the bill. "The Color of Lies" is a thoughtful and engaging look into the complexity of race relations through the eyes of a middle-age English teacher and mother. Using the lens of Molly Culpepper, a native of the small town in southern Georgia where the book takes places, Donna Meredith's story winds through the emotional ups and downs, conflicts, and self-doubt experienced by ordinary people during somewhat extraordinary times. Meredith doesn't pull punches, and the pace really picks up about midway through the story when racial conflict spills over into, and ultimately consumes, her classroom. To the author's credit, her characters are complex and layered, and the reader is never able to dismiss them easily or off-handidly. What might first seem like a caricature of stereo-type evolves into a insightful character study of values and traditions while challenging many of those things we just assumed were "true." I strongly recomemend this book to anyone interested in race relations, the tensions within contemporary southern culture and community, and stories that force us to come to grips with unpleasant truths. The story and characters seem tailor made for book clubs!
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Arlene Claxton
4,0 su 5 stelle Fiction or not
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 28 novembre 2012
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I have taken advantage of so many book offers that frequently I am behind on reviews. As it happens I just finished this book. As I was reading I couldn't determine if the story was true or not and I certainly couldn't remember the review so I would say the story has you pulling for Molly and JD. A good story has you believing the characters and I did.
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5,0 su 5 stelle Book Group Possibility
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 ottobre 2011
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In "The Color of Lies", Donna Meredith raises issues that have impacted our country for decades, yet remain unresolved. Anchoring the story in a small-town high school helps illuminate the problems that many think happen everywhere except in their own towns. Racism is one problem but not the only one.

The challenges facing teachers today go beyond whether or not a student can read and write. Anyone who has ever been a teacher will appreciate the winds of change that seem to sweep in whenever someone opens the schoolhouse door. High-stakes testing changes the focus of instruction. The recent widespread cheating problem in the Atlanta City Schools shows how far some "educators" go for their own personal gain in complete disregard for their professional responsibilities.

It is difficult to teach someone who rejects the teacher. Peer pressure reigns with adults and with the students. Throw in a few administrators, elected officials, and community leaders to make a simmering stew of fact, fiction, opinions, and, finally understanding.
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KB Schaller
5,0 su 5 stelle When yesterday is current again
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 luglio 2012
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Here is a book that should take the reader back in time, but instead raises issues still current today. Main character Molly Culpepper must deal not only with classroom challenges, but also the very real "dramas" of family, which include an alcohol-dependent father along with balancing her career with parenting responsibilities.

Racism rears its ugly head even on the faculty, and from the front office, she must handle with care the viewpoint of a principal who, like many in small town America, longs for the days when Sunday School and Bible tenets extended into the classroom. Molly wonders how she will handle his censure of an article in the school newspaper that deals with AIDs and other "hot button" issues.

If this novel were placed on the "suggested reading" lists for schools, both adults and students would find many familiar scenarios with which they could identify.
Five stars for Donna Meredith for this thought-provoking novel.
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