Download or read book Clear by Fire written by Joshua Hood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunted by his former comrades and labeled a traitor after he refuses to murder an innocent Afghan family, Mason Kane works to unravel a conspiracy that reaches all the way up to the highest levels of the government.

Download or read book Being Found in Him written by Rene' Gloria Hood and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Throughout the years of spiritual warfare, she has never laid her sword down. She has fought day in and day out the good fight of faith. In spite of being told by man she would not live to see forty years of age, and all the distractions that came her way, she always reminded the heavenly Father of His promises to her. This book is a must, you have to read and see for yourself.” —Brenda Green, personal assistant “Apostle Rene’ is the best example I’ve personally experienced of someone who walks in the fullness of the abundant life God has for us. Her realness helped make God more real for me, and I know her testimony in this book will help make Him real to others also.” —DerShaun Blanding, BFIH editor

Download or read book Hood Struggle written by Devin Guillard and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a place where drugs, domestic violence, Incarceration, H.I.V-Aids, and murders are found and encountered on a daily basis, America tends to omit the struggles of the ghetto.This is a book that will reveal the definition of the hood through three sentiments.Antoine is young, ambitious, stubborn, and fearless. Being the stepson of a pastor, at thirteen Antoine gets fully introduced to the street life. 70 percent of Antoine's outlook tells him to "get it how you live", while the other 30 percent says "never lose your integrity". In a world that's full of gunshots, sirens, and rap music, Antoine gets caught up - But regardless of the crime, a son's love for his mother will always be justified.Monique represents the female sentiments of the ghetto. Being from the projects, Monique and her home girls are only the typical clubbing click. Even though Monique would rather stay at home and cater to her man Lester, if Lester is never at the house himself, what else is there for her to do? While one of Monique's home girls lives the life of promiscuity, Monique only wants her man - But if Lester skeletons come out the closet, should she still want him?What's a hood without its glitter? Jersey Phat will represent the silver and gold glitter of South Side Baton Rouge. Jersey Phat theory is simple; get money, stay out of jail, and shine hard! While Jersey Phat is no doubt a trendsetter, he encounters the rich and famous, and will go down in history as another ghetto legend.

Download or read book In My Hood written by Endy and published by Melodrama Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every city has a hood, and every hood has a drug-infested corner. As a once successful businesswoman, Desiree "Rae-Rae" Johnson use to avoid driving through that section of the neighborhood--until she fell on hard times. After becoming a crack addict, she starts living with her soul mate Bilal "Bunchy" Wilson, the man who introduced her to cocaine. After witnessing a double murder and struggling to survive the everyday dramas to support their drug habits, they manage to pull off one of the biggest robberies in New Jersey's history. Bilal is sentenced to life for murder and armed robbery and meets his sudden death in prison, leaving Desiree to face the demons of her past alone. After turning her life around, she meets one of the top men in the game, Ishmael Jenkins, and falls for him, not knowing his secret past. Ishmael is comfortable in his position in the hood and falls for Desiree just as hard. All hell breaks loose as Ishmael's loyalty is tested and Desiree struggles to maintain her sobriety. Between love, murder and a possible relapse, will they survive? Or will they be another statistic in this society in which we live? Have you seen this in your hood? Well, this is what happened In My 'Hood.

Download or read book Black Rednecks and White Liberals written by Thomas Sowell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-17 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also suc...

Download or read book Born a Crime written by Trevor Noah and published by One World. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid “Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.

Download or read book For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood and the Rest of Y all Too written by Christopher Emdin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color, Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student’s culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning. Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike—both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally. Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the “Seven Cs” of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.

Download or read book Beneath the Hood written by Emily McIntire and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blakely My life is a stage. Followed by millions, and loved by none. And me, the captain of control, steering my image through choppy waters. Making sure I stay on top. No one ever sees me. No one ever looks. Until him. But he's everything impossible, and a thousand shades of wrong. Falling for him would ruin everything I've worked for. So why can't I stay away?JacksonMy life is a back-up plan. Surrounded by friends, and loved by none. And me, the king of heartbreak, gluing my pieces back together. Making sure they stick. No one ever sees me. No one ever looks. Until her. But she's everything off-limits, and a thousand shades of sin. Falling for her would ruin everything I've worked for. So why won't she stay away?

Download or read book The Silver Hood written by Justin Richman and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a horrifying car accident, an average man finds himself transformed—and in possession of incredible powers—in this unique superhero novel. After a devastating car accident, Devin Shephard managed to survive without oxygen for more than twenty minutes—but not without side effects. Neurotransmitters flooded the left side of Devin’s brain, altering its structure and leaving him with the ability to move objects with his mind. Meanwhile, Devin’s hometown of Decker City is in danger. Crime runs rampant and the citizens live in constant fear. Under the cover of night, Devin puts on a silver hood and takes to the streets, fighting for justice and protecting the innocent. Some call him a vigilante. Others call him a hero. The cops think he’s just getting in the way. But someone out there is behind the sudden surge in crime, and it’s up to Devin to find out who they are . . . before they find out who he is.

Download or read book The Southeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Download or read book Hood Living written by Sfg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOOD LIVIN Ghetto Grace is about young black adults living in the hood from a realistic perspective. Its about pain, anger, and love. Hood Livin, touches on various aspects in which young adults are coming up in the so-called hood experience. Justice is twenty-four, and although its his last year of college, hes dealing with the problems of his ex-girlfriend leaving town with his young daughter and trying to come to terms with his mothers illness and his responsibility to his best friends little brother. At the same time, he falls in love with a young sister. Kisha is twenty-three and just broke up with her boyfriend when she caught him playing on her. Shes the third oldest of seven children. Her mothers early death forced her to become the woman of the house and to care for a drunkard father. Regg had his first year of college at eighteen. Hes trying to cope with his brothers death and being an adult teenager. He realizes its not all that easy, nor is it what he expected. Coco is Kishas best friend, and shes having her own issues. Her only brother is in prison, and shes caught up in a relationship that is not healthy for her. Her boyfriend is the leader of the local drug-selling gang who values the chase of that paper more than her life. Crime is the leader of the Bishops. He is all about that money and making sure he and his people eat. He doesnt care what he has to do to get it or who he has to kill in order to keep his spots up and flowing. As each deals with their own independent issues and drama, living in the hood, the streets of reality draw them together in one way or another. Ten years earlier, Justice witnessed the murder of his best friend and partner Rakim by a member of a rival gang. He took that as a wake-up call and reality check. Justice decided to get himself on the right track and try to avoid the calls of the streets. But when his late partners brother dies, the call can no longer be ignored.

Download or read book Under My Hood I Have a Hat written by Karla Kuskin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter is here and it's time to put on your gloves and mittens and scarf and hat and... Only award-winning poet Karla Kuskin and illustrator Fumi Kosaka could make bundling up for the snow so much fun!

Download or read book Hood Angels written by Lateef Scott and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOOD ANGELS is one of the first urban novels that tells a story of when pushed to the limits four sexy beautiful outspoken women are able to make an overnight transformation into Newarks' most treacherous, ferocious, terrifying killers with breasts. Reading this will show you that not only could niggas in the hood live a gansta life, be a drug lord or commit murder. A female can also live that life if not better and still face the average female dilemmas, a cheating boyfriend, pregnancy and an envious bitch.What started out to be a night out at the club turned into a melee that lead into a beef that noone would ever forget. When Loddy along with his brothers Mack and Smitty and his right hand man Ronnell seeked revenge on some of Newarks' Detectives. A leak in their organization leads the whole police dept. right to them. Forcing them to lay low and leave their million dollar operation to their family Teefah,Tabby,Ayesha and kyannah. After witnessing first hand what exactly these girls were capable of , there was no doubt in their minds that they possessed the potential to dismantle anyone that gets in their way. Once you open this book it will have you anticipating each and every next move. Don't underestimiate these Exotic women they will leave you surprised at their capabilities.

Download or read book He Brings Out The Hood In Me written by Nikki Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *****This Is a RERELEASE*****The Maler brother's are living the life that most people dream of, having been passed down the family business, they are making more money than the law should allow. The only thing missing in their lives is a companion to share it with. Kahleno Maler the middle brother, tried love once before with the mother of his four-year-old son, Kahlil. He thought that maybe he had found the one to spend his life with until she was caught red handed, being disloyal. It was then that Kahleno felt that maybe it just wasn't in the cards for him. He decided to play the field until the sexy and very taken, Sutton walked into his establishment, then all bets were off. Sutton Chambers, daughter of the infamous Maniac one of the most prolific criminals of his time, worked hard to make away for herself. With her father's help and the insurance money from her mother's death, Sutton was able to build the hair salon of her dreams. Chamber of Beauty was her baby and was the one thing that she was most proud of. When her fiancé's gambling debt threatens to destroy what she's built, Sutton puts her foot down just in time to welcome the persistent attention of none other than Kahleno Maler. Trouble has never thought that he was good enough for Sutton, he's always felt like he had something to prove to their relationship. His blind ambition, get's him into situations where he puts their financial situation at risk. Once Trouble's gambling debts work their way into Sutton's business and their relationship, things get rough for the pair. With his back against the wall, Trouble is offered a way out of all of his debt. The catch is, it may cost him Sutton. Will he be able to stay afloat, or will he drown in his own inhibitions?In this tale of love and deceit; loyalty is tested, and relationships are put on the line. Nobody is safe. Take this ride to find out if love will prevail.

Download or read book Robert Ludlum s the Treadstone Resurrection written by Joshua Hood and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Treadstone has nearly ruined Adam Hayes. The top-secret CIA Black Ops program trained him to be an all but invincible assassin, but it also cost him his family and any chance at a normal life. Which is why he was determined to get out. Working as a carpenter in rural Washington state, Adam thinks he has left Treadstone in the past, until he receives a mysterious email from a former colleague, and soon after is attacked by an unknown hit team at his job site.

Download or read book Hood s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: