Download or read book 31 Hours written by Masha Hamilton and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother’s blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn’t know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won’t answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action he has been instructed to take in 31 hours. Jonas’s absence from the lives of those who love him causes a cascade of events, and as the novel moves through the streets and subways of New York we come to know intimately the lives of its characters. We also learn to feel deeply the connections and disconnections that occur between young people and their parents not only in this country but in the Middle East as well. Carried by Hamilton’s highly-lauded prose, this story about the helplessness of those who cannot contact a beloved young man who is on a devastatingly confused path is compelling on the most human level.
Download or read book Redemption written by Joseph Rosenbloom and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “immersive, humanizing, and demystifying” look at the final hours of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America (Charles Blow, New York Times). “King comes to life in death—a courage ever so inspiring.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a riot, and King was returning to prove that he could lead a violence-free protest. King’s reputation as a credible, non-violent leader of the civil rights movement was in jeopardy just as he was launching the Poor Peoples Campaign. He was calling for massive civil disobedience in the nation’s capital to pressure lawmakers to enact sweeping anti-poverty legislation. But King didn’t live long enough to lead the protest. He was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m. on April 4 in Memphis. Redemption is an intimate look at the last thirty-one hours and twenty-eight minutes of King’s life. King was exhausted from a brutal speaking schedule. He was being denounced in the press and by political leaders as an agent of violence. He was facing dissent even within the civil rights movement and among his own staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In Memphis, a federal court injunction was barring him from marching. As threats against King mounted, he feared an imminent, violent death. The risks were enormous, the pressure intense. On the stormy night of April 3, King gathered the strength to speak at a rally on behalf of sanitation workers. The “Mountaintop Speech,” an eloquent and passionate appeal for workers’ rights and economic justice, exhibited his oratorical mastery at its finest. Redemption draws on dozens of interviews by the author with people who were immersed in the Memphis events, features recently released documents from Atlanta archives, and includes compelling photos. The fresh material reveals untold facets of the story including a never-before-reported lapse by the Memphis Police Department to provide security for King. It unveils financial and logistical dilemmas, and recounts the emotional and marital pressures that were bedeviling King. Also revealed is what his assassin, James Earl Ray, was doing in Memphis during the same time and how a series of extraordinary breaks enabled Ray to construct a sniper’s nest and shoot King.
Download or read book Four Hours in My Lai written by Michael Bilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."—Chicago Tribune.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the State Agricultural College of Michigan for the Year Ending June 30 written by State Agricultural College (Mich.). Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Bulletin Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station East Lansing written by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture and Annual Report of the Experimental Station written by Michigan. State Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House Painting and Decorating written by A. Ashmun Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog and Yearbook written by University of Northern Colorado and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Secretary written by Michigan. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Reports of the Various City Officers of the City of Minneapolis Minnesota written by Minneapolis (Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Typographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents of the City of Boston written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statistical Register for written by Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. New South Wales Office and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
