The Get Along Gang and the Missing Caboo
Title | The Get Along Gang and the Missing Caboo PDF eBook |
Author | James Razzi |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1984-05 |
Genre | Clubs |
ISBN | 9780590331876 |
The Clubhouse Caboose is missing. Will the Get Along Gang be able to find it? The gang can do anything if they stick together.
The Get Along Gang and the Tattletale
Title | The Get Along Gang and the Tattletale PDF eBook |
Author | Sonia W. Black |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1984-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780590401272 |
Dotty's secret project for the science fair is given away by Lotty.
Get Along Gang and the Big Bully
Title | Get Along Gang and the Big Bully PDF eBook |
Author | Margo Lundell |
Publisher | Scholastic |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1984-05 |
Genre | Friendship |
ISBN | 9780590331883 |
Rocco Rabbit realizes he does not want to be a bully after his encounter with Catchum Crocodile.
The Hard Crowd
Title | The Hard Crowd PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Kushner |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982157690 |
A career-spanning anthology of essays on politics and culture by the best-selling author of The Flamethrowers includes entries discussing a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal Baja Peninsula motorcycle race, and the 1970s Fiat factory wildcat strikes.
Hope
Title | Hope PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Berry |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2015-04-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0698178955 |
The #1 New York Times Bestseller A bestselling book that is inspiring the nation: “We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again . . . Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.” Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their abductions, captivity, and dramatic escape On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry. . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for ten years.” A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the decade that followed, the three were raped, psychologically abused, and threatened with death. Berry had a daughter—Jocelyn—by their captor. Drawing upon their recollections and the diary kept by Amanda Berry, Berry and Gina DeJesus describe a tale of unimaginable torment, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan interweave the events within Castro’s house with original reporting on efforts to find the missing girls. The full story behind the headlines—including details never previously released on Castro’s life and motivations—Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women whose courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness ultimately delivered them back to their lives and families.
Favela
Title | Favela PDF eBook |
Author | Janice Perlman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2010-06-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0199709556 |
Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel more marginalized than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation--decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. Foreign Affairs praises Perlman for writing "with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis."
The Good Women of China
Title | The Good Women of China PDF eBook |
Author | Xinran |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2008-11-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307485536 |
When Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long wanted to help improve the lives of Chinese women. But when she was given clearance to host a radio call-in show, she barely anticipated the enthusiasm it would quickly generate. Operating within the constraints imposed by government censors, “Words on the Night Breeze” sparked a tremendous outpouring, and the hours of tape on her answering machines were soon filled every night. Whether angry or muted, posing questions or simply relating experiences, these anonymous women bore witness to decades of civil strife, and of halting attempts at self-understanding in a painfully restrictive society. In this collection, by turns heartrending and inspiring, Xinran brings us the stories that affected her most, and offers a graphically detailed, altogether unprecedented work of oral history.