Download or read book Inner City Angels written by Marcia Baltimore and published by . This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jose Lopez runs beer for his pimping father, watches girls learn the oldest profession, and gets cuffed on the head when he can't steal a twenty dollar bill. He lands in Special Education, where learns to "jump" the three times table while standing on one foot. He multiplies the sixes, sevens, and eights, while trying to get himself into the local gang. He receives an award for cleaning the grafitti off a wall on Normandie Boulevard. The Mayor asks him why he had his gang clean. He says, "Mayor, I hate a dirty city." His psychologist praises him, his truck driver teaches him how to work, and his father continues to cuff . Inner City Angels is Joe's riot story .
Download or read book City of Angels written by Tracie Peterson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles are a man's world -- until Kit Shannon arrives ...
Download or read book Inner City Blues A Charlotte Justice Novel Charlotte Justice Novels written by Paula L. Woods and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Charlotte Justice novel.
Download or read book City of Angels written by Christa Wolf and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning final novel from East Germany's most acclaimed writer Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar—and disturbing—story: in the early 1960s, Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, City of Angels is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night. Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, City of Angels is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel—and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters.
Download or read book City of Angels written by Sheralyn Pratt and published by Cedar Fort. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhea Jensen is your typical twenty-something single girl-if by typical you mean a private investigator who studies ways to escape from handcuffs while waiting to take down another serial sleaze. But when a seemingly open-and-closed embezzlement case goes awry, her on-again-off-again boyfriend starts fooling around behind her back, and some Mormon missionaries stop her on the street during a stakeout, Rhea realizes her life is anything but typical-even by her standards.
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Download or read book THE FIRST PILLAR OF LOVE written by Erwin E. Sniedzins and published by Toronto Education Press. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erwin Sniedzins, a loving father and businessman in Canada, is horrified and saddened when he discovers his wonderful one-year-old daughter Sarah, normal at birth, suddenly doesn’t respond to the world around her. Later, Erwin reads about a condition called Rett Syndrome that affects only girls. He thinks he has found the answer. Dr. Rett diagnoses Sarah with the genetic disorder he discovered called Rett Syndrome. Erwin and his wife Marg first experience hope, then great fear, when they learn there is no cure. Erwin’s determination and passion for helping Sarah, as well as girls like her and other families that suffer from the disease, becomes his life mission. He tenaciously seeks answers to his questions: How to raise international awareness about Rett Syndrome? How do we educate the Medical community to make them aware of the disease and enhance global research? How to raise the funds necessary to unlock the nightmare of Rett Syndrome? Erwin finds an answer and makes a courageous decision: Climb the tallest and grandest mountain in the world, “Qhomolungma,” which in English is “Mount. Everest.” He quit his 18-year executive position at Xerox, a global leader in photocopy machines and established the Canadian Rett Syndrome Association (CRSA) to raise national awareness and funds. Along this complicated, long, arduous journey, he becomes a charity leader who encounters opposition from the people he is trying to help - resistance that sorely tests a father’s resolve to reach “Qhomolungma.” From Chinese hearts, he finds much generosity to relieve the bitterness of fighting such fierce and counterproductive battles. Despite sleepless nights and anxiety, Erwin and his CRSA team plan to put on a high-society fundraising gala charity called the “Climb for Hope” ball. The Ball became another considerable challenge. How do you organize a huge gala event? It helped that he had attended many elaborate fundraising gala dinners. Could he get 600 to 800 people to be present at the Climb for Hope Ball at $150 to $350 each to help raise funds for the expedition and parent support? Who could help to make it successful? The answer came from New Zealand.
Download or read book The City of Falling Angels written by John Berendt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times Bestseller! "Funny, insightful, illuminating . . ." —The Boston Globe Twelve years ago, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil exploded into a monumental success, residing a record-breaking four years on the New York Times bestseller list (longer than any work of fiction or nonfiction had before) and turning John Berendt into a household name. The City of Falling Angels is Berendt's first book since Midnight, and it immediately reminds one what all the fuss was about. Turning to the magic, mystery, and decadence of Venice, Berendt gradually reveals the truth behind a sensational fire that in 1996 destroyed the historic Fenice opera house. Encountering a rich cast of characters, Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build, one after the other, ultimately coming together to portray a world as finely drawn as a still-life painting.
Download or read book Bad City written by Paul Pringle and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pringle’s fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability." —The New York Times For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds. On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is one of the biggest employers in L.A., and it casts a long shadow. But what he couldn’t have foreseen was that this tip would lead to the unveiling of not one major scandal at USC but two, wrapped in a web of crimes and cover-ups. The rot rooted out by Pringle and his colleagues at The Times would creep closer to home than they could have imagined—spilling into their own newsroom. Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the city’s debased institutions, in a narrative that reads like L.A. noir. This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest.
Download or read book A Monk in the Inner City written by Mary Lou Kownacki and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many centuries ago the ancient Desert Fathers and Mothers moved into the wilderness to leave behind the compulsions of the world and draw near to God. For Mary Lou Kownacki, a Benedictine nun and long-time peacemaker, her wilderness is the inner-city of Erie, Pennsylvania, surrounded by poor families trying to survive and keep hope alive in the midst of drugs, violence, and despair. From this outpost on the margins, she observes the world in poetic meditations, written with the passion of a prophet and the heart of a mystic. "I write about days when spiritual security, not fear, was a neighborhood's gift to children. I write about the sin of ignoring those who have the same needs we all do but no way to satisfy them. It is one way of trying to stretch my monk's robe until it embraces the suffering world."
Download or read book The Better Angels of Our Nature written by Steven Pinker and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Download or read book Inner City Angels written by Rollin Heassler and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bittersweet novel about two basketball prodigies from unlike circumstances whose friendship transcends racial barriers and typecast social roles.
Download or read book Brotherhoods written by Art Veno and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bikies consider themselves "the last free people in society", unconstrained by the regulations that rule ordinary citizens. Arthur Veno's account of bikie culture in Australia reveals the true picture of the brotherhoods, drawing on interviews and personal stories, along with his own research.
Download or read book Making a Difference in Urban Schools written by Jane Gaskell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the past fifty years. This analytic and comparative study traces the evolution of urban education in Toronto and Winnipeg from the 1960s onward. Jane Gaskell and Ben Levin identify important contrasts between the experiences in each city as a result of their different demographics, institutional structures, cultures, and politics. They also highlight the common issues and dilemmas faced by reformers in these two cities, across Canada, and globally – including many that persist and remain controversial to this day.
Download or read book The Compassionate Imagination written by Max Wyman and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical reimagining of the role of art and culture in contemporary democracy, The Compassionate Imagination proposes a new Canadian Cultural Contract that re-humanizes our way of living together by tapping into the instincts for generosity and compassion that find their expression in art. Over the last forty years, the arts have been increasingly deemed unimportant to the creation of an educated workforce. Reflecting a broadly held political view that in a market-based economy the arts were “a frill,” they were deemed “unnecessary” courses compared to sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But what kind of Canada might we make if we were to place art and culture at the heart of our mutual decision-making, and return the arts to a central position in our education, shifting to steam rather than stem? What might be possible if we integrate the creative imagination into our responses to the great social challenges we face? What impact would it have on the future shape of our democracy? It’s time to find where the Compassionate Imagination can take us.
Download or read book So Many Angels written by Maurice W. Dorsey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-06-12 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.
Download or read book Angels with Angles written by Loring Leifer and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angels with Angles is the true story of two nuns who started an inner-city daycare in 1969 against the wishes of the Catholic Church. Then Sister Berta Sailer and Sister Corita Bussanmas proceeded to break rules and sometimes laws to grow Operation Breakthrough into one of the largest and most respected of its kind in the country. These two colorful crusaders fearlessly and sometimes foolishly, took on a bishop, the Catholic diocese, a few politicians, landlords, and even the Internal Revenue Service to sustain their mission to keep Operation Breakthrough. To aid in their fight, they enlisted a memorable cast of draft dodgers, hippies, Black Panthers, activists, and socialites. Operation Breakthrough has now grown into an $8 million early learning center that serves about 400 children and their families every day. Angels with Angles reveals how these sisters of the hood have given thousands of children born into crushing poverty the chance for brighter tomorrows.
