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The Corner

Author : David Simon,Edward Burns
Publisher : Crown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307833464

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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a 20-year veteran of the urban drug war, tell the chilling story of this desolate crossroad. Through the eyes of one broken family--two drug-addicted adults and their smart, vulnerable 15-year-old son, DeAndre McCollough, Simon and Burns examine the sinister realities of inner cities across the country and unflinchingly assess why law enforcement policies, moral crusades, and the welfare system have accomplished so little. This extraordinary book is a crucial look at the price of the drug culture and the poignant scenes of hope, caring, and love that astonishingly rise in the midst of a place America has abandoned.

A Place on the Corner, Second Edition

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226019598

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A Place on the Corner, Second Edition by Elijah Anderson Pdf

This edition marks the 25th anniversary of Elijah Anderson's classic study of street life among a gang of people congregating around a bar called 'Jelly's' on Chicago's South Side.

Voices on the Corner

Author : Harold J. Recinos
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498229029

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Voices on the Corner by Harold J. Recinos Pdf

Harold J. Recinos is the son of a Guatemalan father and Puerto Rican mother who at age twelve was abandoned to New York City streets. After living on the streets between the ages of twelve and sixteen, Recinos met a Presbyterian minister who had discovered the God of the oppressed while active in civil rights marches in the 60s. The minister took Recinos into his family, helped him kick a heroin habit, and enrolled him in school. Voices on the Corner documents life at the edges of American society in ways that are both personal and universal in the human experience. The poems provide a fresh insight into the existential experiences of people excluded from mainstream society. In a celebration of dazzling texture, poems here address issues of police brutality, gun violence, immigrants' rights, the blighted urban landscape, death, hunger, religious violence, drug addiction, pluralism, spirituality, family life, hope, and the pulse of everyday life in overlooked places.

House-at-the-Corner

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338041678

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House-at-the-Corner by Enid Blyton Pdf

The Farrell family numbers 7; 5 children plus mum and dad. They are a happy family living a busy family life. That is until Aunt Grace comes to stay. She is sharp-tongued and interfering, especially in the lives of the children.

Death In The Corner

Author : Wizkiss
Publisher : SuperNovel(HK)Co.,Limited
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000350490

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Death In The Corner by Wizkiss Pdf

A beautiful, bold sixteen years old teenage girl by the name Clara Jackson who just only arrived at Great Hills High after she had to move away from her former School and Town due to her mother's new job, falls in love with a charming,exceptionally talented and strong boy in the name of Adams. Who actually is a werewolf. While seeking a romantic life with this charming young man, Clara's life would change forever when she discovered a Truth about herself. She also isn't human. Not only was she the daughter of a powerful, ruthless Hybrid she had a deadly curse placed on her when she was just a little infant and even worse she only has to her seventeen birthday to live. Time is running out fast for the sweet Clara. She needs all the help she can get from her friends and most especially from her powerful, hybrid father if she is to survive past this. But who exactly is this her powerful hybrid father and why is she only getting to know about him now? Will he be willing to help her since he is ruthless? Who actually was the one who placed a curse on her when she was little? Find these and many more in this supernatural, romantic novel.

The Corner Garden

Author : Lesley Krueger
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143012738

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Walk Me to the Corner

Author : Anneli Furmark
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770466401

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Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark Pdf

A loving home and husband; two grown sons; a lakeside cabin with a picnic table where their initials are carved; and the chance encounter at a party that destabilizes it all. Elise is in her mid-fifties and is satisfied with life. But the moment she sees Dagmar, she’s entranced. What begins as eye contact transitions to harmless texting, and quickly swells into the type of lust and yearning Elise did not know her life was lacking. Both are happily married and there’s trepidation, but they can’t resist. The two arrange to meet, changing the course of Elise’s stable and consistent life forever. Though Elise’s husband attempts to support her exploration, he also begins an affair with a much younger woman—a postgraduate student in her thirties. The cliche of it all is too much for Elise to bear. As her marriage unravels, Elise’s love for Dagmar grows stronger. But with Dagmar content to stay in her marriage, Elise is stranded, adrift, completely alone for the first time in her adult life, and searching for someone to blame—the other woman. In the blur of a breakdown, she’s left facing the reality that, after all, she started it. In lush watercolor washes and pencil crayons, Anneli Furmark’s Walk Me to the Corner is a gorgeous portrait of desire and heartbreak, and the painful gamble the heart sometimes choses in spite of the mind. Translated by Hanna Strömberg.

The Corner Cupboard of Facts for Everybody

Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Cooking, American
ISBN : UCAL:$B180084

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The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies. How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended

Author : Grace Brooks Hill
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547570929

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The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies. How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill Pdf

"The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies. How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended" by Grace Brooks Hill. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Corner That Held Them

Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454824

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'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph

Out of the Corner

Author : Jennifer Grey
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593356715

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Out of the Corner by Jennifer Grey Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the iconic film Dirty Dancing “A funny, dishy, occasionally heartbreaking coming-of-age story.”—The New York Times “Savage and engaging . . . Grey’s memoir is interesting not only for her journey out of darkness but also for what her story reveals about what women encounter in the entertainment business, and the fortitude required to make it.”—The Washington Post In this beautiful, close-to-the bone account, Jennifer Grey takes readers on a vivid tour of the experiences that have shaped her, from her childhood as the daughter of Broadway and film legend Joel Grey, to the surprise hit with Patrick Swayze that made her America’s sweetheart, to her inspiring season eleven win on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. Throughout this intimate narrative, Grey richly evokes places and times that were defining for a generation—from her preteen days in 1970s Malibu and wild child nights in New York’s club scene, to her roles in quintessential movies of the 1980s, including The Cotton Club, Red Dawn, and her breakout performance in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. With self-deprecating humor and frankness, she looks back on her unbridled, romantic adventures in Hollywood. And with enormous bravery, she shares the devastating fallout from a plastic surgery procedure that caused the sudden and stunning loss of her professional identity and career. Grey inspires with her hard-won battle back, reclaiming her sense of self from a culture and business that can impose a narrow and unforgiving definition of female worth. She finds, at last, her own true north and starts a family of her own, just in the nick of time. Distinctive, moving, and powerful, told with generosity and pluck, Out of the Corner is a memoir about a never-ending personal evolution, a coming-of-age story for women of every age.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Author : Jamie Ford
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345512505

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"Sentimental, heartfelt….the exploration of Henry’s changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take heed we don’t repeat those injustices."-- Kirkus Reviews “A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war--not the sweeping damage of the battlefield, but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. Especially relevant in today's world, this is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more importantly, it will make you feel." -- Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain “Jamie Ford's first novel explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle area during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love. An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut.” -- Lisa See, bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In the opening pages of Jamie Ford’s stunning debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship–and innocent love–that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept. Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice–words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago. Set during one of the most conflicted and volatile times in American history, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is an extraordinary story of commitment and enduring hope. In Henry and Keiko, Jamie Ford has created an unforgettable duo whose story teaches us of the power of forgiveness and the human heart. BONUS: This edition contains a Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet discussion guide and an excerpt from Jamie Ford's Love and Other Consolation Prizes.

From the Corner of the Oval

Author : Beck Dorey-Stein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525509134

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One? “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair • The New York Times Editors’ Choice • Paste In 2012, Beck Dorey-Stein is working five part-time jobs and just scraping by when a posting on Craigslist lands her, improbably, in the Oval Office as one of Barack Obama’s stenographers. The ultimate D.C. outsider, she joins the elite team who accompany the president wherever he goes, recorder and mic in hand. On whirlwind trips across time zones, Beck forges friendships with a dynamic group of fellow travelers—young men and women who, like her, leave their real lives behind to hop aboard Air Force One in service of the president. As she learns to navigate White House protocols and more than once runs afoul of the hierarchy, Beck becomes romantically entangled with a consummate D.C. insider, and suddenly the political becomes all too personal. Against a backdrop of glamour, drama, and intrigue, this is the story of a young woman learning what truly matters, and, in the process, discovering her voice. Praise for From the Corner of the Oval “Who knew the West Wing could be so sexy? Beck Dorey-Stein’s unparalleled access is obvious on every page, along with her knife-sharp humor. I tore through the entire book on a four-hour flight and loved reading all about the brilliant yet hard-partying people who once surrounded the leader of the free world. Lots of books claim to give real insider glimpses, but this one actually delivers.”—Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada “Dorey-Stein . . . writes with wit and self-deprecating humor.”—The Wall Street Journal “Addictively readable . . . Dorey-Stein’s spunk and her sparkling, crackling prose had me cheering for her through each adventure. . . . She never loses her starry-eyed optimism, her pinch-me wonderment, her Working Girl pluck.”—Paul Begala, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Author : Carol Bruneau
Publisher : Vagrant Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771088834

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In this bittersweet novel inspired by the life of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis, master storyteller Carol Bruneau gives voice to the artist, allowing her to speak from beyond the grave, freed from the stigmas of gender, poverty and disability that marked her life and shaped her art.