The Sixteenth Round
Title | The Sixteenth Round PDF eBook |
Author | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1569768617 |
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was riding a wave of success. The survivor of a difficult youth, he rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people and sentenced to three consecutive life terms. Written from prison and first published in 1974, The Sixteenth Round chronicles Hurricane's journey from the ring to solitary confinement. The book was his cry for help to the public, an attempt to set the record straight and force a new trial. Bob Dylan wrote his classic anthem "Hurricane" about his struggle, and Muhammad Ali and thousands of others took up his cause. The power of Carter's voice, as well as his ironic humor, makes this an eloquent, soul-stirring account of a remarkable life.
The Sixteenth Round
Title | The Sixteenth Round PDF eBook |
Author | Rubin Carter |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781569765678 |
Previously published: New York: Viking, 1974.
Eye of the Hurricane
Title | Eye of the Hurricane PDF eBook |
Author | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2011-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1569768226 |
Onetime seemingly unstoppable boxing champion, victim of a false conviction for a triple homicide, and spokesperson for the wrongfully incarcerated, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter is a controversial twentieth century icon. In this moving narrative, Dr. Carter tells of the metaphoric and physical prisons he has survived: his poverty-stricken childhood, his troubled adolescence and early adulthood, his 19-year imprisonment with 10 years in solitary confinement, and the knowledge that his life was forever altered by injustice. A spiritual as well as factual autobiography, his is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but he offers hope for those who have none, and his words are a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.
Sixteenth Summer
Title | Sixteenth Summer PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Dalton |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-05-03 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1442423455 |
This sweet summer romance about “the floaty happiness of first love” (BCCB) between a girl living in a beachside island town and a city boy is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson. Anna is dreading another tourist-filled summer on Dune Island that follows the same routine: beach, ice cream, friends, repeat. That is, until she locks eyes with Will, the gorgeous and sweet guy visiting from New York. Soon, her summer is filled with flirtatious fun as Anna falls head over heels in love. But with every perfect afternoon, sweet kiss, and walk on the beach, Anna can’t ignore that the days are quickly growing shorter, and Will has to leave at the end of August. Anna’s never felt anything like this before, but when forever isn’t even a possibility, one summer doesn’t feel worth the promise of her heart breaking…
Hurricane
Title | Hurricane PDF eBook |
Author | James S. Hirsch |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780618087280 |
The inspiration for the recent film starring Denzel Washington, "Hurricane" recounts the miraculous journey of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter--a boxer wrongly jailed for three murders--from fierce despair to freedom and enlightenment. of photos.
Trappers of the Far West
Title | Trappers of the Far West PDF eBook |
Author | LeRoy Reuben Hafen |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1983-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803272187 |
In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round
Title | Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round PDF eBook |
Author | Doreen Rappaport |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780763619275 |
This final installment in the powerful nonfiction trilogy about the African-American experience introduces readers to the people, armed with the songs and strength passed down from their ancestors, who profoundly impacted the American civil rights movement.