DIVTold through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the s to , a period known as the Jim Crow years.
Multiple perspectives are examined as the book looks at the impact of legal segregation and discrimination on the day-to-day life of black and white Americans across the country. Complete with a bibliography and an index, this book is an important addition to black history books for young readers.
A valuable and comprehensive perspective on American race relations. Drawing on personal interviews, the author provides incidents of everyday racism that young people will be able to grasp and relate to immediately. The reader will be quickly engaged. Journey into the mind of a boy struggling to become a man in a world full of chaos and confusion. Searching outside of himself for a peace that can only be found within. Experience the action and excitement of a man out of control.
As his world crumbles around him, witness a spiritual awakening as the "boy" comes of age and begins to recover from the ravages of trauma and addicti on. Full of action, adventure, romance and drama, "Miles to Go" captivates from beginning to end. Mo and Birdie are back in their element, swimming against the tide. Mo is seriously conflicted about life, love, family and religion. Without Birdie to guide him, Mo would simply be a rudderless canoe drifting aimlessly with the current.
After they're summoned to solve a brutal murder in Yidtown, Toronto's Jewish quarter, Mo realizes he knows the victim, Mendel Black.
A class-A putz, now with a steak knife in his heart, he just happens to be married to Mo's soulmate, Miryam. Their first meeting in over 14 years will not be the happiest of reunions.
Navigating a maze of various suspects, incl. Miryam herself, it turns out that the victim was not an ideal husband, son, brother or businessman, and the duo needs to unravel the various schemes and angles he worked.
The author tells of her experiences as a volunteer and observer in a five-year University of Virginia project to provide in-home nursing care for rural, elderly poor people in five Virginia counties. She weaves larger issues of aging in rural America into a series of encounters with individuals and their families.
Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc. Garry has joined a new college. Roshni wasn't his friend but somehow she knew everything about his life. She felt connected to him in a strange way and his eyes drew her closer eventually. She denied her feelings but as we all know destiny cannot be denied. Unfortunately, life takes an unexpected turn. Will Garry be left as just a chapter in her life or will he be able to live with her forever?
Max Jenkins watched enviously as the love between his employers, Rory and Chance blossomed. He never thought to have someone of his own to hold until Bo shook up Max's world and made him question everything he believed he knew about himself.
What might seem like an impossible dream for two wounded men can be a reality if they'll only believe—in each other, and themselves. Max Jenkins has been the foreman on Chance Gallagher's ranch long enough to know love between two men can be a powerful thing.
Despite his rigid upbringing, Max has watched Chance and his partner Rory, has seen the deep and abiding love they have for one another, and Max has found himself thinking about things he'd never acknowledged before. When Max's friend, Bo Daughtry, is almost killed in a violent attack, Max realizes he has some decisions to make. Years of fear and ignoring his own needs make it difficult, but for the love of one man, Max will fight himself and Bo's doubts and insecurities.
Patkel, an eight-year-old boy living in the slums aspires for riches. Hirok, a self-assured and young businessman is tormented by his past. Anushuya, a confused homemaker lives in the regret of decisions she made in the past. All their lives come together in a gripping story of money, power, love, and revenge. Will they find a way out of their misery? Or do they have miles to go….
Haunted by ghosts of the past, Murphy has managed to build a decent life for himself and his family. But that life is threatened when the Texas Rangers ask him to carry out the clandestine execution of a beautiful young prostitute convicted of murder. The woman harbors a deadly secret.
Murphy is forced to confront a spectre from his own past, and face the possible destruction of his family. Jackie Nink Pflug's gripping true story of her experience during the terrorist hijacking, and how she recuperated from this devastating trauma.
Pflug, who was shot and thrown onto the tarmac during the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight , tells her story and the lessons learned as she recuperated from this devastating trauma.
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