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| Author | : Emily Neville |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2017-02-22 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0486820696 |
Dave has the usual adolescent problems, mitigated by the consoling company of his cat. Recounted with humor and a realistic teenage voice, this Newbery Award winner unfolds amid the excitement of 1960s New York City. "Superb." — The New York Times.
| Author | : Anne O'Gleadra |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2014-07-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781909192799 |
| Author | : Rocco Karega |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 49 |
| Release | : 2010-02-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1450035523 |
Rocco Karega is an alumnus of The Quincy Jones Workshop. He has met and associated with over 50 famous people. He has performed with Hollywood Actors and Actresses on stage, television and motion pictures. Well known Artists who met Rocco include legendary Actress Betty Davis, Singer Freda Payne, Actor Sidney Poitier, Actress Joanna Shimkus, Producer/Director Melvin Van Peebles, Actors Hawthorne James and Glynn Turman.
| Author | : Randy Pausch |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Cancer |
| ISBN | : 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
| Author | : Lois Watkins |
| Publisher | : First Edition Design Pub. |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2016-02-24 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1506901239 |
A series of short stories describing childhood experiences in segregated Little Rock, Arkansas during the 1940's & 50's. Keywords: Short Stories, Segregation, Childhood Perception Of Race & Racism, Black Segregated Community, Segregation Revisionism, Segregation Aberrations, Juvenile Non Fiction
| Author | : Francesca Polletta |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2009-01-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226673774 |
Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. Student participants told stories of impulsive, spontaneous action—this despite all the planning that had gone into the sit-ins. “It was like a fever,” they said. Francesca Polletta’s It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Drawing on cases ranging from sixteenth-century tax revolts to contemporary debates about the future of the World Trade Center site, Polletta argues that stories are politically effective not when they have clear moral messages, but when they have complex, often ambiguous ones. The openness of stories to interpretation has allowed disadvantaged groups, in particular, to gain a hearing for new needs and to forge surprising political alliances. But popular beliefs in America about storytelling as a genre have also hurt those challenging the status quo. A rich analysis of storytelling in courtrooms, newsrooms, public forums, and the United States Congress, It Was Like a Fever offers provocative new insights into the dynamics of culture and contention.
| Author | : Misa Sugiura |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062473433 |
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature * 2018 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults * 2018 Rainbow Book List * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017 "Well-paced, brimming with drama, and utterly vital."—Kirkus (starred review) This charming and bittersweet coming-of-age story featuring two girls of color falling in love is part To All the Boys I've Loved Before and part Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don’t invite her to parties. Some are big, like the fact that her father may be having an affair. And then there’s the one that she can barely even admit to herself—the one about how she might have a crush on her best friend. When Sana and her family move to California, she begins to wonder if it’s finally time for some honesty, especially after she meets Jamie Ramirez. Jamie is beautiful and smart and unlike anyone Sana’s ever known. There are just a few problems: Sana's new friends don't trust Jamie's crowd; Jamie's friends clearly don't want her around anyway; and a sweet guy named Caleb seems to have more-than-friendly feelings for her. Meanwhile, her dad’s affair is becoming too obvious to ignore. Sana always figured that the hardest thing would be to tell people that she wants to date a girl, but as she quickly learns, telling the truth is easy…what comes after it, though, is a whole lot more complicated.
| Author | : Lilly de Holanda |
| Publisher | : Austin Macauley Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2024-11-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1035847477 |
Lilly, a senior lady, would never have dreamt of doing the Camino de Santiago. Yet, one day, she just took off and started this arduous pilgrimage, walking 800 km all alone through the north of Spain. Lilly’s handicaps, as a result of previous brain surgery, made traveling on her own sometimes hazardous. On these pages, she draws the reader into the beautiful, peaceful, and happy pilgrim world, relating some of the incredible stories she heard. She listens to Stuart when he talks about the agonizing search for his younger brother at Ground Zero, and to Alexander from Peru, who had twenty siblings, all by the same mother. We hear about the lady who was struggling to get away from an abusive, narcissistic partner. At an almost hidden level, this story lifts a few veils off Lilly’s own marriage. We also get to know David, who saved Lilly’s life during a night of thunderstorms, which was, by the way, not the first time her life was in danger. David returns in quite an unexpected manner in the last few pages of these Camino tales, adding more magic to an exceptional journey.
| Author | : Elaine M Crawley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 303 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 113599174X |
This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel about their work. In focusing on how prison officers feel about their work this book makes a number of interesting revelations - about the essentially domestic nature of much of the work they do, about the degree of emotional labour invested in it and about the performance nature of many of the day-to-day interactions between officers and prisoners. Finally, the book follows the prison officer home after work, showing how the prison can spill over into their home lives and family relationships. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (including interviews with prison officers' wives and children as well as prison officers themselves), this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in how prisons and organisations more generally operate in practice.
