title: Repossessing Ernestine: A Granddaughter Uncovers the Secret History of Her American Family
author: Marsha Hunt
description: This compelling memoir by Hunt, an African American actress and writer (Free), reads like an edge-of-your-seat mystery. After learning from a cousin that her grandmother, Ernestine, who was committed to an insane asylum in the 1920s, was still alive at the age of 94, Hunt decided to find her and uncover her past. Ernestine, as described to the author, had been light-skinned with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was the daughter of a black mother and an unknown father and was married with three children when she was institutionalized by her husband, an African American minister. Defying family members who preferred to keep her whereabouts a secret, Hunt rescued Ernestine from a rundown nursing home. Although Hunt was unable to discover why Ernestine spent 50 years behind bars, she suspects the reason may have had more to do with racism and sexism than insanity. Photos not seen by PW. $40,000 ad/promo; author tour. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: BY JERRY WEST
   
  Illustrated by Helen S. Hamilton
  THE SVENSON GROUP, INC.
  on behalf of The Hollister Family Properties Trust
  
  Jacket copy from the original hardcover book:
   
  One day Pete and Pam Hollister rescued a Seminole Indian named Charlie Tiger Tail from
  drowning in Pine Lake. But they never dreamed that their heroic act would lead to a new, exciting
  mystery and a vacation in Florida.
  Within a few days, all the Hollisters were enjoying the beach at Turtle Point in the Everglades.
  And they were eager to help Charlie catch a gang of thieves who were illegally killing giant sea turtles
  and stealing their eggs!
  After Holly found a poacher’s spear, Ricky and Pete patrolled the beach one night and almost
  trapped the poachers. With Charlie’s ten-year-old daughter, Clementine, the children rowed to
  mysterious Captive Island to investigate the eerie sounds coming from there each night. They inspected
  a great Mississippi riverboat that had been towed up on land and turned into a huge mansio