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Author: Wade Rouse
Publisher: Dutton Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journalist remembers his childhood struggles to gain acceptance from the jeans-wearing set, his envy of his admired older brother, his parent's atypical personalities, and the Fourth of July accident that ended his brother's life.
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780571320189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1986 the overthrow of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos by Cory Aquino's 'People Power' revolution focused global attention on the Philippines. Western media took their lead from the US, and the untrammelled denigration of the fleeing dictator and his wife served to tarnish the Philippines more generally. James Hamilton-Paterson, who knew the Philippines well having lived there for some years, resolved in America's Boy (1998) to examine the Marcoses more closely - not to exonerate them but, rather, to explain the political and social roots of their regime, sustained for so long by support from Washington. 'The ultimate book about the national character of the Philippines ... both a history and a psychoanalysis of a whole people, a socio-political tour de force.' Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, Malaya 'Every page displays Hamilton-Paterson's mastery of his material ... required reading for anyone interested in the enduring impact of US policy in the Philippines.' Publishers Weekly
Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher: Derrydale Press
Published: 2001-04-27
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1461661331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach summer, millions of children complain, "There's nothing to do." Originally published in 1888, The American Boy's Handy Book resoundingly challenges this age-old dilemma by providing a huge number of ideas for fun and instructional projects for young boys. Everything from camping and kite building to raising dogs and building boats is detailed for the would-be adventurer and do-it your-selfer.
Author: S. s Megale
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-18
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781970071047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoignant and raw, American Boy is the story of a brother's fall through the eyes of a little sister. From childhood lightsaberopponent to an unrecognizable figure driving off into the night and stumbling up to federal court podiums, Megale chroniclesMatthew's journey through opioid addiction with brutal truth and unimaginable love. This firsthand biography shares unique insight into a now all too familiar and life-threatening phenomenon--what worked for Matthew and what didn't, mistakes along the way that challenge families to talk without shame about their loved one's addiction, and what communities can do to change the course of this historic epidemic in front of them.Written with haunting intimacy and surprising hope, Megale's account is a must read for anyone touched by substance abuse or grief. It is the portrait of Matt--his spirit and his warmth--but the story of her, too, and her fight to return to him with both urgency and ideas of forever.
Author: Dustin Lance Black
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1524733288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal. • Adapted as an HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max. “A beautifully written, utterly compelling account of growing up poor and gay with a thrice married, physically disabled, deeply religious Mormon mother, and the imprint this irrepressible woman made on the character of Dustin Lance Black.” —Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Missoula and Under the Banner of Heaven Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins—a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. There he was raised by a single mother who, as a survivor of childhood polio, endured brutal surgeries as well as braces and crutches for life. Despite the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages, she imbued Lance with her inner strength and irrepressible optimism. When Lance came out to his mother at age twenty-one, she initially derided his sexuality as a sinful choice. It may seem like theirs was a house destined to be divided—and at times it was. But in the end, they did not let their differences define them or the relationship that had inspired two remarkable lives. This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a mother and son built bridges across great cultural divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal.
Author: Larry Watson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1571318461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of the acclaimed Montana 1948 “spins charm and melancholy” in this novel of youth and romantic rivalry in 1960s rural Minnesota (Denver Post). Willow Falls, Minnesota, 1962. The shooting of a young woman on Thanksgiving Day sets off a chain of unsettling events in the life of seventeen-year-old Matthew Garth. A close friend of the prosperous Dunbar family, Matthew is present in Dr. Dunbar’s home office when the victim is brought in. The sight of Louisa Lindahl—beautiful and mortally wounded—makes an indelible impression on the young man. Fueled by his feverish desire for this mysterious woman and a deep longing for the comfort and affluence that appears to surround the Dunbars, Matthew finds himself drawn into a vortex of greed, manipulation, and ultimately betrayal. Larry Watson’s tale heart-breaking tale “resonates with language as clear and images as crisp as the spare, flat prairie of its Minnesota setting” (Kirkus Reviews). An Esquire Best Book of 2011
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 1999-09-15
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780805061185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA narrative history of the U.S.-supported dictatorship that came to define the Philippines. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos presented themselves as the reincarnation of a primal couple from Filipino mythology. Ferdinand reinvented himself as a matchless fighter against the Japanese, and Time magazine hailed him as a hero. He was the strongman, the dictator, welcomed at the White House by Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and the C.I.A..-America's Boy. For twenty-one years he and Imelda dominated the Philippines. In the , a "democratic revolution" replaced them with Corazon Aquino, who, in turn, was followed by Fidel Ramos, Imelda's cousin. Nothing changed: the world applauded, the shadow play went on. James Hamilton-Paterson has gathered astonishing information from senators, cronies, rivals, and Marcos family members, including Imelda. Covering the entire one-hundred-year history of U. S. involvement in the Philippines, he offers a devastating vision of the price Filipinos paid for dictatorship. Perhaps no other couple is as emblematic of American Imperialism as the Marcoses; America's Boy is their story. Passionate, deeply researched, and haunting, it is "a riveting read" (The Guardian [London]) by one of the language's best stylists.
Author: Jason Reynolds
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1481463357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
Author: Eric Sloane
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486463044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpts from a teenager's diary interspersed with the author's comments and illustrations depict the lifestyle and crafts of rural New England.
Author: Michael Miragliuolo
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2011-02
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781432769642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn American Boy is the first work published by Michael Miragliuolo. It is a memoir that focuses on the impact of family on ones values and presents a story to which most Americans can relate. Growing up in a close family that struggled to make ends meet, Miragliuolo has many tales to tell of family, friends, and the world around him that helped mold him into the person he grew up to be. An American Boy will cause the reader to connect with the author and hopefully reflect on his or her own upbringing.
