Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Freedom
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501147633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Next Stop, Freedom
Author: Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780785768852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The time is the 1850s, and the place is a Southern plantation. Young Emily works as a house slave, caring for Master's two young boys. Emily dreams about freedom, and one night she finds a path called the Underground Railroad from slavery to freedom. Her
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780785768852
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The time is the 1850s, and the place is a Southern plantation. Young Emily works as a house slave, caring for Master's two young boys. Emily dreams about freedom, and one night she finds a path called the Underground Railroad from slavery to freedom. Her
The Underground Railroad
Author: Adrienne Shadd
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770706828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of people already passionate about this neglected aspect of our own past." - Lawrence Hill, Writer The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, a richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and "conductors." Not only does it trace the story of the Underground Railroad itself and how people courageously made the trip north to Canada and freedom, but it also explores what happened to them after they arrived. And it does so using never-before-published information on the African-Canadian community of Toronto. Based entirely on new research carried out for the experiential theatre show "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Freedom!" at the Royal Ontario Museum, this volume offers new insights into the rich heritage of the Black people who made Toronto their home before the Civil War. It portrays life in the city during the nineteenth century in considerable detail. This exciting new book will be of interest to readers young and old who want to learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto’s history.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770706828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
"The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! stands out as an engaging and highly readable account of the lives of Black people in Toronto in the 1800s. Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper and Karolyn Smardz Frost offer many helpful points of entry for readers learning for the first time about Black history in Canada. They also give surprising and detailed information to enrich the understanding of people already passionate about this neglected aspect of our own past." - Lawrence Hill, Writer The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto!, a richly illustrated book, examines the urban connection of the clandestine system of secret routes, safe houses and "conductors." Not only does it trace the story of the Underground Railroad itself and how people courageously made the trip north to Canada and freedom, but it also explores what happened to them after they arrived. And it does so using never-before-published information on the African-Canadian community of Toronto. Based entirely on new research carried out for the experiential theatre show "The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Freedom!" at the Royal Ontario Museum, this volume offers new insights into the rich heritage of the Black people who made Toronto their home before the Civil War. It portrays life in the city during the nineteenth century in considerable detail. This exciting new book will be of interest to readers young and old who want to learn more about this unexplored chapter in Toronto’s history.
Freedom Summer
Author: Deborah Wiles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689830165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, this work introduces a white boy living in the South of 1964, who recounts his first experience of racial prejudice--and his friendship with a black boy that defied it. Full color.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689830165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award, this work introduces a white boy living in the South of 1964, who recounts his first experience of racial prejudice--and his friendship with a black boy that defied it. Full color.
Saving Freedom
Author: Jim DeMint
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805449574
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Senator DeMint illuminates key principles of freedom and how they are being compromised by big government. The author lays out a complete action plan to reclaim these freedoms and reverse America's cultural decline by restoring a strong spirit of God and country.
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 0805449574
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Senator DeMint illuminates key principles of freedom and how they are being compromised by big government. The author lays out a complete action plan to reclaim these freedoms and reverse America's cultural decline by restoring a strong spirit of God and country.
Next Stop
Author: Ivan Sanchez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows Ivan Sanchez and his crew on their search for identity and an escape from poverty in a stark world where street wars and all-night symphonies of crime and drug-fueled mayhem were as routine as the number 4 train. In the game, the difference between riches and ruin was either a bullet or a lucky turn away. Almost driven insane by the poverty, despair, and senseless violence, Ivan left it all behind and moved to Virginia, but the grotesque images and voices of the dead continued to haunt him. This book honors the memories of those who died. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Next Stop shares with a whole new generation the insights and hard lessons Ivan learned.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Beyond the safety of New York City's news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From one stop to the next, this gritty memoir follows Ivan Sanchez and his crew on their search for identity and an escape from poverty in a stark world where street wars and all-night symphonies of crime and drug-fueled mayhem were as routine as the number 4 train. In the game, the difference between riches and ruin was either a bullet or a lucky turn away. Almost driven insane by the poverty, despair, and senseless violence, Ivan left it all behind and moved to Virginia, but the grotesque images and voices of the dead continued to haunt him. This book honors the memories of those who died. At times heartbreakingly sad and brutal, Next Stop shares with a whole new generation the insights and hard lessons Ivan learned.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 1589979796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 1589979796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Underground Railroad
Author: Colson Whitehead
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0345804325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. • The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!
Freedom River
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
What's Your Next?
Author: David Phelps
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642251906
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK FROM CREATING MORE FREEDOM, WEALTH, AND IMPACT? Too many people are running so hard on the hamster wheel of work and life that they never stop to ask simple questions or challenge the "conventional" wisdom we've all been taught--questions such as: - Why do we max out our debt with school loans and credit cards? - Why do we sacrifice our entire working life, trading time for dollars, until we're in our sunset years? - Why do we keep our hard-earned dollars in a retirement 401(k) or IRA, waiting until we're sixty before the dollars can work for us? - And why do we work so hard for our wealth, instead of letting our wealth work for us? Author David Phelps has spent his entire career questioning the traditional approach to work and wealth. In the process, he discovered the most powerful question we can ask: "What's my next?"In What's Your Next?, Phelps presents busy professionals with a powerful guide to use wealth and an alternative income path to achieve a deeper level of freedom. Discover how to get your top five Freedom Assets working for you: (1) yourself, (2) your business, (3) your relationships, (4) your capital, and (5) your legacy. Don't settle for the status quo. Leverage the Freedom Assets you already have to think bigger and challenge yourself. IT'S TIME TO FIND AND CONQUER YOUR NEXT. Take the next step and discover more resources at FindYourNext.com.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781642251906
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK FROM CREATING MORE FREEDOM, WEALTH, AND IMPACT? Too many people are running so hard on the hamster wheel of work and life that they never stop to ask simple questions or challenge the "conventional" wisdom we've all been taught--questions such as: - Why do we max out our debt with school loans and credit cards? - Why do we sacrifice our entire working life, trading time for dollars, until we're in our sunset years? - Why do we keep our hard-earned dollars in a retirement 401(k) or IRA, waiting until we're sixty before the dollars can work for us? - And why do we work so hard for our wealth, instead of letting our wealth work for us? Author David Phelps has spent his entire career questioning the traditional approach to work and wealth. In the process, he discovered the most powerful question we can ask: "What's my next?"In What's Your Next?, Phelps presents busy professionals with a powerful guide to use wealth and an alternative income path to achieve a deeper level of freedom. Discover how to get your top five Freedom Assets working for you: (1) yourself, (2) your business, (3) your relationships, (4) your capital, and (5) your legacy. Don't settle for the status quo. Leverage the Freedom Assets you already have to think bigger and challenge yourself. IT'S TIME TO FIND AND CONQUER YOUR NEXT. Take the next step and discover more resources at FindYourNext.com.