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| Author | : Azouz Begag |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2007-04-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0803262582 |
An autobiographical novel of growing up in the multicultural environment of contemporary France tells the story of Azouz Begag, the son of an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon and his coming of age in a world of ethnic and racial tensions.
| Author | : César Aira |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2013-11-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0811219119 |
A middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires's shantytown attracts the attention of a corrupt policeman who would use anyone including innocent kids to break a drug ring he believes is operating in the slum. By the author of An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter.
| Author | : Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 632 |
| Release | : 2023-11-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520911563 |
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.
| Author | : Azouz Begag |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0803206917 |
In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France's first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigrant origin, wrote an essay laying bare the festering social and ethnic injustices that, as can now be seen in hindsight, led to the riots.
| Author | : Emilie Carles |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 1992-06-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0140169652 |
First published in France in 1977, this autobiography vivifies the captivating Carles from her peasant origins in a tiny Alpine village through her work as a teacher, farmer, mother, feminist and political activist.
| Author | : Todd Strasser |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2014-01-28 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442457236 |
When Dan and his family go from middle class to homeless, issues of injustice rise to the forefront in this relatable, timely novel from Todd Strasser that VOYA calls “poignant,” “darkly humorous,” and “exceptionally thought-provoking.” It seems like Dan has it all. He’s a baseball star who is part of the popular crowd and dates the hottest girl in school. Then his family loses their home. Forced to move into the town’s Tent City, Dan feels his world shifting. His friends try to pretend that everything’s cool, but they’re not the ones living among the homeless. As Dan struggles to adjust to his new life, he gets involved with the people who are fighting for better conditions and services for the residents of Tent City. But someone wants Tent City gone, and will stop at nothing until it’s destroyed...
| Author | : Harlan Hubbard |
| Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1977-01-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780813113593 |
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
| Author | : Franklin W. Dixon |
| Publisher | : Standard Ebooks |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2024-04-11T00:18:50Z |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
To their friends’ envy, Biff and Chet plan to take a boating vacation up the coast. The joy of sending them off soon turns to anxiety as neither of them make contact with home for several days. Convinced that something’s happened to them, the Hardy boys and their friends go on a search filled with adventure and peril in hopes of retrieving their missing chums. This is the fourth book of the Hardy boys series, first published in 1928. While the author is credited to be Franklin W. Dixon, in reality, Leslie MacFarlane and Edward Stratemeyer are primarily responsible for the early volumes, including this one. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the original 1928 text. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
| Author | : Peter Jay Black |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1408851415 |
In a bunker hidden deep beneath London live five extraordinary kids: meet world-famous hacker Jack, gadget geek Charlie, free runner Slink, comms chief Obi and decoy diva Wren. They're not just friends; they're URBAN OUTLAWS. They outsmart London's crime gangs and hand out their dirty money through Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s). Their latest mission - hacking the bank account of criminal mastermind Del Sarto - has landed them in serious trouble. Del Sarto is going head-to-head with MI5 for control of Proteus, an advanced quantum computer able to crack any code and steal top-secret documents in nanoseconds. It's down to the URBAN OUTLAWS to use their guile, guts and skill to destroy Proteus, avert world domination . . . and stay alive.
| Author | : Daniel Acosta |
| Publisher | : Cinco Puntos Press |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1941026958 |
2019 Paterson Prize winner Skipping Stones Book Award Kirkus Reviews' Best YA Historical Fiction of 2018 A river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.’s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoots through his brain like a bullet. But this river isn’t water, it’s iron—the tracks and trains of the Southern Pacific railroad that pass along his tight-knit neighborhood in the San Gabriel valley just ten miles east of L.A. The iron river is everything to Man-on-Fire, Man for short to his friends, Little Man to his uncles and cousins. He watches it, he waits for it, he plays nears its tracks, he listens for the weight of its currents (strong currents flowing east pulling two hundred boxcars, light current going west with less than fifty cars), he whiles away long summer days throwing rocks and bricks at it with his friends Danny, Marco and Little. They line up cans and bottles in mock battles to try to throw it off track. But nothing derails the iron river, and nothing stops the stinking cop Turk from trying to pin a hobo’s murder on the four young boys.
