From The Other Side Of The Tracks

Author : Charity Alyse
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534497726

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Other Side of the Tracks by Charity Alyse Pdf

This “stirring…emotionally raw” (Publishers Weekly) young adult debut novel about three teens entangled by secret love, open hatred, and the invisible societal constraints wrapped around people both Black and white is perfect for readers of All American Boys and The Hate U Give. There is an unspoken agreement between the racially divided towns of Bayside and Hamilton: no one steps over the train tracks that divide them. Or else. Not until Zach Whitman anyway, a white boy who moves in from Philly and who dreams of music. When he follows his dream across the tracks to meet his idol, the famous jazz musician who owns The Sunlight Record Shop in Hamilton, he’s flung into Capri Collins’s path. Capri has big plans: she wants to follow her late mother’s famous footsteps, dancing her way onto Broadway, and leaving this town for good, just like her older brother, Justin, is planning to do when he goes off to college next year. As sparks fly, Zach and Capri realize that they can help each other turn hope into a reality, even if it means crossing the tracks to do it. But one tragic night changes everything. When Justin’s friend, the star of Hamilton’s football team, is murdered by a white Bayside police officer, the long-standing feud between Bayside and Hamilton becomes an all-out war. And Capri, Justin, and Zach are right in the middle of it.

Author : Eva Elle Rose
Publisher : Author House
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491822517

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From The Other Side Of The Tracks by Eva Elle Rose Pdf

From the Other Side of the Tracks is the true, first-person account of Eva Elle Rose. Abandoned by her mother, beaten by her stepfather, and reared in abject poverty, Eva nevertheless survived to lead an accomplished life of real meaning. For this, she credits a force at work behind the scenes, bringing people and events into her life out of seemingly nowhere that collectively steered her in the right direction, even away from a suicide attempt on the lowest night of her life. For believers and non-believers alike, From the Other Side of the Tracks is a deeply moving, inspirational journey of triumph.

Author : Gino Carlotti
Publisher : Via Media Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781893765078

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Flashbacks: From the Other Side of the Tracks by Gino Carlotti Pdf

This book is a collection of personal accounts of growing up in an Italian-American home in an inter-city neighborhood of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Accompanying the text are 52 pictures of an historical era many Americans hold close to their hearts and consider the most precious of their lives. The book fondly enlivens themes of America's melting pot. The author, a gifted storyteller, writes about topics that range from his parents' roots in Italy to life in Catholic schools' from how teanagers dressed when he was a boy to how U.S. military personnel are honored in American cemeteries throughout the world. The love of family, regard for old friends and classmates, and the importance of "toots" are threads that are woven throughout the book.

Author : United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OSU:32435020693479

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The Other Side of the Tracks by United States Commission on Civil Rights Pdf

Author : Hayden Lee Hinton
Publisher : Author House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456725396

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The Boy from the Wrong Side of the Tracks by Hayden Lee Hinton Pdf

Another fictional novel with the usual twists and turns with most every turn of the page as is the writing style of Hayden Lee Hinton. This smooth reading, exciting, and unusual story of a dying elderly man reflecting about his troubled life from his hospital bed. There are several stories within the main story of the book. The mysterious and shocking events throughtout the story will bring tears of joy and saddness, as well as, horror filled emotions. A book you won't want to put down.

Author : Jack Marschall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0972967230

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The Other Side of the Tracks by Jack Marschall Pdf

"Stay on track" is sound advice as we journey through life. But what if the tracks lead to a dead end?What then? Thus begins the adventure for the old train as well as for us in this inspirational story for all ages by Jack P. Marschall. The Other Side of the Tracks is a reminder that love is the bond and the end of our journey through life is essentially just the beginning. Faith and hope remind us we are never alone from the day we are born until the end of our assignment.

Author : Zeljko Goreta
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491762219

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From the Other Side of the Gun by Zeljko Goreta Pdf

It is April 1941. Belgrade has been bombed, leaving its government in shambles. In a small village in the newly independent state of Croatia, its residents know that a war has started, but nobody senses the tragedy that awaits Kornica, especially a young peasant named Antun. It is not long before Antun is recruited by a new military formation, the Ustashas, where he soon becomes a favorite among the soldiers despite his explosive nature. As the fighting intensifies, Antun joins his fellow soldiers on the battlefields, propelled through time by a series of brutal atrocities that sadly affect his own family and reveal him to be both a hero and a man who recognizes the value of surviving a war in order to feed his family. Will Antun be able to rise above the gunfire and find the freedom he so desperately needs? In this historical novel based on true events, a Bosnian-Croatian peasant’s life is forever changed as World War II begins and he is recruited to fight on the battlefields.

Author : Steve Horton,Jeong Mo Yang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780240810287

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Professional Manga by Steve Horton,Jeong Mo Yang Pdf

The definitive guide to digital manga creation

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89048455190

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : H.N. Khan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780735270886

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Wrong Side of the Court by H.N. Khan Pdf

Fifteen-year-old Fawad has big dreams about being the world's first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. A first-generation Pakistani coming-of-age story for fans of David Yoon and Ben Philippe. Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother. But Fawad has plans: like, asking out Ashley, even though she lives on the other, wealthier side of the tracks, and saving his friend Arif from being beaten into a pulp for being the school flirt, and making the school basketball team and dreaming of being the world’s first Pakistani to be drafted into the NBA. All he has to do now is convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. And let him date girls from his school. Not to mention somehow get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone . . .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African American teenagers
ISBN : OCLC:881474791

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From the Other Side of the Tracks by Anonim Pdf

Author : Irving Lewis Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190282455

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The City in Slang by Irving Lewis Allen Pdf

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger, tar beach, the Tenderloin, the Great White Way, to do a Brodie--these are just a few of the hundreds of popular words and phrases that were born or took on new meaning in the streets of New York. In The City in Slang, Irving Lewis Allen traces this flowering of popular expressions that accompanied the emergence of the New York metropolis from the early nineteenth century down to the present. This unique account of the cultural and social history of America's greatest city provides in effect a lexicon of popular speech about city life. With many stories Allen shows how this vocabulary arose from city streets, often interplaying with vaudeville, radio, movies, comics, and the popular songs of Tin Pan Alley. Some terms of great pertinence to city people today have unexpectedly old pedigrees. Rush hour was coined by 1890, for instance, and rubberneck dates to the late 1890s and became popular in New York to describe the busloads of tourists who craned their necks to see the tall buildings and the sights of the Bowery and Chinatown. The Big Apple itself (since 1971 the official nickname of New York) appeared in the 1920s, though first in reference to the city's top racetracks and to Broadway bookings as pinnacles of professional endeavor. Allen also tells fascinating stories behind once-popular slang that is no longer in use. Spielers, for example, were the little girls in tenement districts who danced ecstatically on the sidewalks to the music of the hurdy-gurdy men and, when they were old enough, frequented the dance halls of the Lower East Side. Following the trail of these words and phrases into the city's East Side, West Side, and all around the town, from Harlem to Wall Street, and into the haunts of its high and low life, The City in Slang is a fascinating look at the rich cultural heritage of language about city life.

Author : J. story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1495169383

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On the Other Side of the Tracks by J. story Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Patents
ISBN : IOWA:31858029579251

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office by Anonim Pdf

Author : Willson, S. Brian
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604865929

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Blood on the Tracks by Willson, S. Brian Pdf

“We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. In telling his story, Willson provides numerous examples of the types of personal, risk-taking, nonviolent actions he and others have taken in attempts to educate and effect political change: tax refusal—which requires simplification of one’s lifestyle; fasting—done publicly in strategic political and/or therapeutic spiritual contexts; and obstruction tactics—strategically placing one’s body in the way of “business as usual.” It was such actions that thrust Brian Willson into the public eye in the mid-’80s, first as a participant in a high-profile, water-only “Veterans Fast for Life” against the Contra war being waged by his government in Nicaragua. Then, on a fateful day in September 1987, the world watched in horror as Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks and arrested. Losing his legs only strengthened Willson’s identity with millions of unnamed victims of U.S. policy around the world. He provides details of his travels to countries in Latin America and the Middle East and bears witness to the harm done to poor people as well as to the environment by the steamroller of U.S. imperialism. These heart-rending accounts are offered side by side with inspirational stories of nonviolent struggle and the survival of resilient communities Willson’s expanding consciousness also uncovers injustices within his own country, including insights gained through his study and service within the U.S. criminal justice system and personal experiences addressing racial injustices. He discusses coming to terms with his identity as a Viet Nam veteran and the subsequent service he provides to others as director of a veterans outreach center in New England. He draws much inspiration from friends he encounters along the way as he finds himself continually drawn to the path leading to a simpler life that seeks to “do no harm.&rdquo Throughout his personal journey Willson struggles with the question, “Why was it so easy for me, a ’good’ man, to follow orders to travel 9,000 miles from home to participate in killing people who clearly were not a threat to me or any of my fellow citizens?” He eventually comes to the realization that the “American Way of Life” is AWOL from humanity, and that the only way to recover our humanity is by changing our consciousness, one individual at a time, while striving for collective cultural changes toward “less and local.” Thus, Willson offers up his personal story as a metaphorical map for anyone who feels the need to be liberated from the American Way of Life—a guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect and empathy.