Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 1442482885
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this “sincere and moving” (Booklist) companion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Tricks from Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank. In her bestselling novel, Tricks, Ellen Hopkins introduced us to five memorable characters tackling these enormous questions: Eden, the preacher’s daughter who turns tricks in Vegas and is helped into a child prostitution rescue; Seth, the gay farm boy disowned by his father who finds himself without money or resources other than his own body; Whitney, the privileged kid coaxed into the life by a pimp and whose dreams are ruined in a heroin haze; Ginger, who runs away from home with her girlfriend and is arrested for soliciting an undercover cop; and Cody, whose gambling habit forces him into the life, but who is shot and left for dead. And now, in Traffick, these five are faced with the toughest question of all: Is there a way out? How these five teenagers face the aftermath of their decisions and experiences is the soul of this story that exposes the dark, ferocious underbelly of the child trafficking trade. Heartwrenching and hopeful, Traffick takes us on five separate but intertwined journeys through the painful challenges of recovery, rehabilitation, and renewal to forgiveness and love. All the way home.

Author: Mamta Jain Valderrama
Publisher: Majavii Press
ISBN: 9780692788882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Twelve-year-old Juhi Gupta loves her simple life in a remote Indian village. She and her mother and father might be poor, but they're happy. Then one day, everything changes. Her father heads to the doctor for a simple procedure-the removal of a rotten tooth-but instead, his kidney is stolen and sold on the black market. Juhi and her parents are kidnapped and dropped in a New Delhi slum. Separated from her parents, Juhi must quickly learn to survive. Luckily, she has a rare skill that's greatly in demand, especially in the slums: she knows how to read and write. At first, her quick wits allow her to thrive, but soon they attract unwanted attention, and she's faced with impossible decisions and desperate choices. Meanwhile, in the United States, Kevin Whitman is dying. No American doctor can help him, so he ventures to India for treatment. He has no idea that in so doing, he'll change Juhi's life forever.

Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416996427
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel from Ellen Hopkins. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival. Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching…for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don’t expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words “I love you” are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story—a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, “Can I ever feel okay about myself?” A brilliant achievement from New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins—who has been called “the bestselling living poet in the country” by Mediabistro.com—Tricks is a book that turns you on and repels you at the same time. Just like so much of life.

Author: Rafe Blaufarb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199334070
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Inhuman Traffick tells for the first time a story of enslavement and freedom that spans the entire Atlantic world. Beginning in 1829 off the west coast of Africa with the recapture of the slave ship Neirsée--previously seized by the British Navy in its efforts to suppress the "inhuman traffick"--and ending with the liberation of the African passengers who had been sold into slavery in the French Caribbean, Rafe Blaufarb puts a human face on the history of the transatlantic slave trade and the efforts to suppress it. He addresses a neglected aspect of this tragic history in the wide geographical and thematic contexts in which it took place--Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Atlantic Ocean--and situates the story in familial, social, economic, diplomatic, and military spheres. Inhuman Traffick shows how history is done by explaining how the documents on which it is based moved through time and space from the ships, African outposts, colonial buildings, and ministerial offices to the archives of present-day Britain and France. Blaufarb follows the ship, its crew, and its captives from the slave port of Old Calabar to the Caribbean and into the courts of Britain and France, where the history of the illegal slave trade, slavery in the Caribbean, and diplomatic history all come into focus. Students will be taken in by the vivid drawings and the rich narrative, but in Blaufarb's skilled hands, they will also find themselves immersed in a unique learning experience. Blaufarb not only presents the history of the ship and its captives, he takes the reader inside the project itself. He explains how he came upon the story, how he and his editor envisioned the project, and how he worked with illustrator Liz Clarke to craft more than 300 "cells" that comprise Part II of the book. He and Clarke even take the reader inside archives in France and Britain. This powerful combination of historical essay, graphics, primary-source documents, and discussion questions gives students insight into the Atlantic World plantation complex, the transatlantic slave trade, and the process of historical storytelling itself.

Author: Paulin Zavala
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1507128819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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“Why are you angry?” she said in a low but firm voice. “Because I can’t understand how you can be so calm about it!” “So I have to holler around and broke into hysteria so you consider me sane?” she frowned at him. “Anything, something!” he asked, “Cry, yell at me, hit me if you need to, but don’t remain so calm! It makes me nervous!” “I’m sorry, but I won’t” she closed her eyes again, “I’m sorry you got used to the drugged version of myself, but that’s not me.” What happens when the woman you're in love with is not who she think she is? What happens when your own family, then only people whom you trust, deceive you filthily to get your money? Encounters, love, death, and a lot of confusion fill this story, a story about one man's betrayal and one man's unconditional love; a love that goes beyond utter oblivion.

Author: Glenn Miles
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
ISBN: 9781498200783
Category : Church work with prostitutes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Stop the Traffick? How do we even begin addressing such an important - and yet overwhelming - task? If you are a practitioner striving to assist victims or a faith-based organization wondering how to get involved you may be wrestling with questions like: How should we go about working with exploited people? Where should we focus our response? How do we deal with the challenges? This cutting-edge book brings together practical advice and strategic insight from more than 40 global experts and experienced practitioners who thoughtfully explore how best to answer these questions and more. Stopping the Traffick is for everyone who wants to go beyond merely knowing that something must be done to a deeper understanding of how we can more effectively bring an end to exploitation.

Author: Jeremiah O'Callaghan
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: J. P.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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Author: Kelly Carrero
Publisher: Kelly Carrero
ISBN:
Category : Drug dealers
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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"Dating the son of a drug lord was bound to be complicated. Besides the obvious, Zara's boyfriend, Jett, is also an alien, and she's a half-breed still coming to terms with what that actually means. Thrown into a life where the human rules don't apply, she meets surprise around every corner. The world that humans live in is not what it seems. As if that weren't bad enough, Jett also has alien enemies--one's that are hell bent on making him pay for what he's done on his father's order. But these enemies aren't after him. They'll take their revenge on the ones he loves. Caught up in a battle between the rival families, Zara will finally get to see what makes Jett a Royal and why she's acquired a Royal entourage."--Amazon.com.