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In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the all-white, upper-crust US Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive a powerhouse player who would integrate "the game of royalty." The player was a street-savvy young Black woman from Harlem named Althea Gibson who was about as out-of-place in that rarefied and intolerant world as any aspiring tennis champion could be.

Anne grew up in an abusive home, leading to severe depression and a determination to do better as a mother. One of her sons wants a dog from the time he is a baby; Anne very much does not. For years she appeases him with creatures who live in cages and tanks, but on his tenth birthday she can no longer say no—and she proceeds to fall in love with their new four-legged family member, Mattie. Then Mattie dies a sudden and tragic death, and Anne feels herself begin to sink back into depression.

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.

Louise Jacobs entstammt einer Familie, deren Name im 20. Jahrhundert durch Kaffeehandel berühmt wurde: "Jacobs Kaffee... wunderbar" lautete der Werbespruch ihres erfolgreichen Bremer Großvaters Walther. Die junge Frau macht sich auf die Suche nach Zeugen der Familiengeschichte und entdeckt dabei auch ihre jüdischen Vorfahren mütterlicherseits, die Hamburger Jessuruns. Es entsteht ein spannendes Panorama des 20. Jahrhunderts.