Bøger om Oklahoma

I Depressionens USA bliver familien Joad fordrevet fra deres hjem på grund af de enorme støvstorme, som ødelægger alle muligheder for at dyrke jorden, og på grund af finanskrisen, bankernes hårdhændede metoder og kreditorernes ubarmhjertighed. De finder vej til Californien, hvor de forsøger at tjene til dagen og vejen som daglejere i appelsinplantagerne.Men også i den forjættede stat råder nøden – gerrige og grådige plantageejere, et enormt overskud af arbejdsløse indvandrere og kampen mellem arbejdsgiverne og fagforeningerne suger familien længere ned i nøden, og Tom Joad må til sidst flygte efter at have dræbt den mand, der myrdede fagforeningsforkæmperen Caseey, som søgte at skaffe de undertrykte arbejdere bedre vilkår.Vredens druer blev ved udgivelsen et fænomen i offentligheden. Den vakte glæde og vrede, blev forbudt og brændt offentligt og blev desuden den amerikanske bog, der blev diskuteret mest i samtiden. John Fords film over bogen med Henry Fonda i hovedrollen blev en af de helt store filmklassikere.Romanen er nyoversat af Thomas Krogsbøl.

Join us as we take you on a Muffler Man hunt along Route 66. The Muffler Man Coloring Book helps you and your family find these relics off the road, learn more about their history, and offers an engaging activity for the whole family.

True Grit meets Twin Peaks in this genre-bending debut novel by Chase Dearinger. This New Dark explores the haunted, broken hills of eastern Oklahoma, where over the course of just two cold days in November, the residents of Seven Suns will each face their own kind of weird. There's Wyatt, a dope-growing Muscogee whose obsession with a black cougar that shouldn't exist begins to uproot his life. The teenager who lives with him-Randy-is outraged at the world, confused about his sexuality, and haunted by the bones of his mother. And there's Esther-a dutiful, God-fearing court bailiff who finds herself thrust into the position of county sheriff, forced to find the missing girl whose disappearance sets everything in motion. Inexorably bringing them all together is a nameless cowboy junky who may or may not be some ancient shape-shifting evil. All of them must overcome this new dark while dealing with the violent undercurrents of family, religion, addiction, and death.

FBI Special Agent Kim Otto discovers the perfect bait to lure Jack Reacher. He found his roots and war in Lee Child's Past Tense. Now, will he protect his nephew from a ruthless killer? Agent Otto bets on Reacher and puts her life on the line.

The next gripping Hunt for Jack Reacher Thriller from Diane Capri "Make some coffee. You'll read all night." Lee Child A wanted man. Wanted...dead. Four men in a van barrel toward Chicago on a crime spree fueled by greed and vengeance. One man driving, another preoccupied with the sophisticated plan. In the back, a new recruit worried and wary, another angry and hot-headed. A day behind them, at a lonely motel in an out of the way New Mexico town, an unthinkable murder brings FBI Special Agent Kim Otto to a dead stop. Soon, Otto realizes the murder is tied to a massive crime wave. Otto and her new partner pursue Reacher's prey to Chicago and reconnect with his old friend. Frances Neagley fills in a few missing pieces and teams up with Otto in a race to stop the killers before a powerful unknown enemy can destroy them all. "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers including A Wanted Man and The Sentinel.

One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents and Tulsa's White population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's devastation, and documents the subsequent silence that surrounded this tragedy. Delving into history that's long been pushed aside, this is the true story of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre, with updates that connect the historical significance of the massacre to the ongoing struggle for racial justice in America.

This novel for teens, part of the No Name series, features the Choctaw Nation basketball team competing in a national tournament.

A Choctaw Native teen hides from his abusive father in a spot he hopes his father won't find.

Relates the history of the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Indian territory in Oklahoma and the struggle by their principle chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ancestral lands.

Since his father gave up drinking, basketball star Bobby Byington's life is finally on track, but he wishes he could say the same for his girlfriend and a fellow teammate.

determination, disappointment, alcoholism, Choctaw, basketball