In My Father S House

Author : Fox Butterfield
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780525521631

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness. The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant legacy of criminality passed from parents to children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Examining the long history of the Bogles, a white family, Butterfield offers a revelatory look at criminality that forces us to disentangle race from our ideas about crime and, in doing so, strikes at the heart of our deepest stereotypes. And he makes clear how these new insights are leading to fundamentally different efforts at reform. With his empathic insight and profound knowledge of criminology, Butterfield offers us both the indelible tale of one family's transgressions and tribulations, and an entirely new way to understand crime in America.

Author : Kwame Anthony Appiah
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199879250

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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America. In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be an African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race. In My Father's House is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and W.E.B. Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter subject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquely African literature have ignored not only the inescapable influences that centuries of contact with the West have imposed, but also the multicultural nature of Africa itself. Emphasizing this last point is Appiah's eloquent title essay which offers a fitting finale to the volume. In a moving first-person account of his father's death and funeral in Ghana, Appiah offers a brilliant metaphor for the tension between Africa's aspirations to modernity and its desire to draw on its ancient cultural roots. During the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared on television to make his now famous plea: "People, can we all get along?" In this beautiful, elegantly written volume, Appiah steers us along a path toward answering a question of the utmost importance to us all.

Author : Ann Rinaldi
Publisher : Point
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590447319

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For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.

Author : Marion Woodman
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-11-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780877738961

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Leaving My Father's House by Marion Woodman Pdf

The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture—as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal journeys of three wise women as maps, she points the way to the state of inner wholeness and balance she calls "conscious femininity."

Author : E. Lynn Harris
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429921107

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In My Father's House by E. Lynn Harris Pdf

For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami's sexy South Beach. Only the world's most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it. But even Picture Perfect isn't immune from hard times, so when Sterling Sneed, a rich, celebrity party planner promises to pay a ludicrously high fee for some models, Bentley finds he can't refuse. Even though the job is not exactly a photo shoot, Bentley agrees to supply fifteen gorgeous models as eye candy for an "A" list party—to look good, be charming and, well, entertain the guests. They don't have to do anything they don't want to, but... His models are pros and he figures they can handle the pressure, until one drops out and Bentley asks his protégé Jah, a beautiful kid who Bentley treats as if he were his own son, to substitute. Suddenly, the stakes are much higher, particularly when Jah falls in love with the hottest African American movie star in America. Seth Sinclair is very handsome, very famous, and very married—and his closeted gay life makes him very dangerous as well. Can Bentley's fatherly guidance save Jah from making a fatal mistake?

Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839763267

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Going to My Father's House by Patrick Joyce Pdf

A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts? Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.

Author : Frank E. Peretti,Ted Dekker
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781595543622

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House by Frank E. Peretti,Ted Dekker Pdf

Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

Author : Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307830371

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In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines Pdf

A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend. In the confrontation between the two, the young man's secret burden explodes into the open, and Phillip Martin begins a long-neglected journey into his youth to discover how destructive his former life was, for himself and for those around him. “…on every page there's an authentic moment, or a dead-right knot of conversation, or a truer-than-true turn of phrase…”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Anne Graham Lotz
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718021504

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Heaven: My Father's House by Anne Graham Lotz Pdf

Now with 250K copies in print! Revised and Updated Edition. Anne affirms that Heaven truly is the home of your dreams: a home of lasting value that's fully paid for and filled with family, where you will be wanted and welcomed. Best of all, Heaven is a home you are invited to claim as your own. With over 40 percent new and revised content, Anne Graham Lotz has updated her classic book on Heaven for a whole new generation of readers, and also for herself. With her father, mother, and husband now gone, Lotz beautifully adds her own vulnerability and stories to the journey contained in Heaven: My Father's House. Jesus promised us, "In My Father's house are many rooms...I am going there to prepare a place for you." Amid the turbulence of today's world, we cling to the hope of a heavenly home where we will be welcomed into eternal peace and safety. Anne affirms that Heaven truly is the home of your dreams: a home of lasting value that's fully paid for and filled with family, where you will be wanted and welcomed. Best of all, Heaven is a home you are invited to claim as your own.

Author : Corrie Ten Boom,Carole C. Carlson
Publisher : Fleming H. Revell Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 0800717716

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In My Father's House by Corrie Ten Boom,Carole C. Carlson Pdf

Here is an intimate look at the human side of one of our generation's most authentic Christians; how her faith kept her going for years to prepare for the suffering and victories ahead.

Author : Orville Vernon Burton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807864166

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In My Father's House Are Many Mansions by Orville Vernon Burton Pdf

Burton traces the evolution of Edgefield County from the antebellum period through Reconstruction and beyond. From amassed information on every household in this large rural community, he tests the many generalizations about southern black and white families of this period and finds that they were strikingly similar. Wealth, rather than race or class, was the main factor that influenced family structure, and the matriarchal family was but a myth.

Author : Sylvia Fraser
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Adult child abuse victims
ISBN : 0860681815

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My Father's House by Sylvia Fraser Pdf

She was a beautiful blond child, a quintessential Canadian teenager: she loved Saturday film matinees, giggled at pyjama parties, ran for student president, led the cheerleading squad, went steady with the right boy and married him, her proud father at her side. But from the age of seven Sylvia Fraser shared her body with a 'twin' who lived a separate life from her. This other self was created to do the things Sylvia was too frightened, too ashamed, too repelled to do - the things her father made her do. As an adult, she had no recollection of a sexual relationship with her father, yet some connection always remained - pain, terror and guilt were never far from the surface. With tremendous power, candour and eloquence, Sylvia Fraser breaks through her amnesia to discover and embrace the self she left behind. MY FATHER'S HOUSE is at once a terrible account of a woman's coming of age and a lyric story of love and forgiveness.

Author : Bethany Dawson
Publisher : Liberties Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781909718012

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My Father's House by Bethany Dawson Pdf

It had not been a conscious decision to cling to the better memories of his childhood. It had just happened when Hannah came along and the possibility of a brighter future dragged his scowling face away from the details of his past. Now, standing in the middle of the poorly part-mowed field, in front of the house that was hiding all the reasons he had run away, he wondered if it would be possible to hold the past and present in tension.' Robbie Hanright has a normal, settled life in Dublin. With a wife and baby, an undemanding job and a nice home, everything is just as he wants it. However, after an enduring estrangement from the rural landscape of his youth, Robbie receives a phone call from his sister asking him to come home. Left with little choice, Robbie returns once more to County Down, and to Larkscroft Farm, to confront the father who tormented his childhood and face up to a history he wants only to forget. Set against the backdrop of a decaying farmhouse and fragile family connections, My Father's House is a powerful, lyrical story of loss and regret, through which Bethany Dawson reveals an affecting compassion for the profound, and often painful, complexities of family life.

Author : Bodie Thoene,Brock Thoene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arkansas
ISBN : 1414301200

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In My Father's House by Bodie Thoene,Brock Thoene Pdf

From the bestselling author of THE ZION COVENANT and THE ZION CHRONICLES series!.

Author : George Davidiuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949784509

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In My Father's House by George Davidiuk Pdf