Download or read book Trouble Half way written by Jan Mark and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving through England with her new stepfather, Amy gains a new view of herself, her relationship with him, and the country through which she is traveling.
Download or read book Halfway Home written by Reuben Jonathan Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air
Download or read book Trouble Halfway written by Mathieu Masmondet and published by Humanoids Inc. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grounded Sci-Fi tale of two polar opposites who are forced to unite to survive in a violent post-cataclysmic world.
Download or read book The English Edge Series Idioms written by Christine Tan and Fatimah Mustafa and published by Pelangi ePublishing Sdn Bhd. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Edge Series comprises books which focus on elements of English other than grammar that give the language a natural, conversational and creative feel. The books are the fruit of the authors' collective efforts in putting together an array of IDIOMS which are commonly used in practical, everyday situations. Appropriate understanding and use of IDIOMS in English is a necessary skill that learners must acquire as they progress towards acquiring higher levels of proficiency in the language. The English Edge Series helps to take your fluency to new heights!
Download or read book Jamaica Negro Proverbs and Sayings Collected and Classified According to Subjects written by Izett Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book E M Delafield Premium Collection 6 Novels in One Volume written by E. M. Delafield and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 1407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "E. M. Delafield Premium Collection: 6 Novels in One Volume" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Zella Sees Herself" (1915) - Zella is a beautiful orphan who must come to terms with her mother's death in a largely hostile world. The Novel is largely autobiographical and the first written work of E. M. Delafield. "The War-Workers" (1918) - The travails of working in a Supply Depot under the tyrannical control of Charmain Vivian, who meets her match in a newly arrived clergyman's daughter Grace Jones. "Consequences" (1919) - A young woman entering a convent. Its heroine, Alex Clare, refuses to marry the only young man to make her an offer of marriage, and, finding herself regarded as a failure by society, must resort to convent life. "Tension" (1920) - Pauline Marchrose is a successful candidate, a woman claiming to be 28 but probably in her early thirties, when women are only beginning to fight for their rights and for equal opportunities. "The Heel of Achilles" (1921) - A middle-class young woman Lydia Raymond who intends to marry "above her" during the first world war in England while her daughter Jane rebels against her. "Humbug: A Study in Education" (1922) - The protagonist Lilly is a charming character who in spite of believing in the goodness of things is bogged down by her family and society to conform. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author. She is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen.
Download or read book The Spinners written by Eden Phillpotts and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Love and Trouble written by Claire Dederer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager. Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, in Love and Trouble Dederer captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself.
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Download or read book The Pearl Fishers written by H. De Vere Stacpoole and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Pearl Fishers" by H. De Vere Stacpoole. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Download or read book The Bullet Trick written by Louise Welsh and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he's hoping his luck's on the turn. There were certain spectators from his last show who he'd rather forget. Like the one who's now a corpse. Amongst the showgirls and tricksters of Berlin's scandalous underground Wilson can abandon his heart, his head and, more importantly, his past. But secrets have a habit of catching up with him and, as he gets sucked into certain lucrative after-hours work, the line between what's an act and what's real starts to blur.
