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Angel Meadow

Author : Dean Kirby
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880289
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Angel Meadow written by Dean Kirby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is a lesson in the price of capitalism.” —North West Labour History Journal “It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.” —Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world’s first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs. Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, the Irk. Gangs of “scuttlers” stalk the streets in pointed, brass-tipped clogs. Those who evade their clutches are hunted down by cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis. Lawless drinking dens and a cold slab in the dead house provide the only relief from a filthy and frightening world. In this shocking book, journalist Dean Kirby takes readers on a hair-raising journey through the gin palaces, alleyways and underground vaults of this nineteenth-century Manchester slum considered so diabolical it was re-christened “hell upon earth” by Friedrich Engels. ENTER ANGEL MEADOW IF YOU DARE . . . “In this book the author expertly achieves driving home the grim horror that was Angel Meadow. These were conditions at the bottom of human endurance and conditions that go beyond imaginations of modern-day citizens.” —Crime Traveller

Slumming

Author : Kristen D. Randle
Publisher : HarperTeen
ISBN 13 : 9780060010225
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Slumming written by Kristen D. Randle and published by HarperTeen. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody has two eyes and a nose and a mouth. What makes some people beautiful and some people not? Nikki never imagined that this offhand thought would change the course of her senior year forever. But when she poses the question to her best friends, Alicia and Sam, Alicia is suddenly inspired, and the three unexpectedly find themselves launching a "human experiment." It seems like the perfect way to make a difference in their last few weeks of high school: they will each pick a student who needs a little improving and take that person to the prom. Harmless, right? When Nikki, Alicia, and Sam quickly become entrenched in their projects, each has to face difficult realizations about the people they have chosen -- and themselves. Before long their own close friendship feels fragile. Will they make it to graduation without hurting one another -- or anybody else? Acclaimed author Kristen D. Randle has woven an intriguing, insightful, and suspenseful story about three friends who set out to transform others, with unforeseen consequences.

Salvation in the Slums

Author : Norris Magnuson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449972
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Salvation in the Slums written by Norris Magnuson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did advocates of the social gospel carry the burden of humanitarian aid during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Were evangelicals content merely to maintain the status quo and avoid ameliorating the plight of the needy? Focusing upon the period from the Civil War to about 1920, this study attempts to portray the sizeable body of Christians whose extensive welfare activities and concern sprang similarly from their passion for evangelism and personal holiness, writes the author. He meticulously traces the urban welfare activities of the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America, the Christian Missionary and Alliance, multiple rescue missions and homes, and the religious journal 'Christian Herald'.

The Girl Behind the Glass

Author : Emilio Iasiello
Publisher : Douglas A Owen (pub-9568136019008422)
ISBN 13 : 1928094643
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Behind the Glass written by Emilio Iasiello and published by Douglas A Owen (pub-9568136019008422). This book was released on 2020 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few crazy nights of bar hopping The ashes of a long lost friend And Mike still has to go to work the next day! Legal clerk Mike comes to a realization that his life of sex, drugs, and rock n roll are coming to an end. His job is just a paycheck, and the endless nights of shots and sex must end. It all comes to a head when a long lost friend's ashes turn up on his doorstep, along with the unfinished manuscript they were working on together. With one last kick at the can, Mike takes his friend out on the town for one last run at binge drinking and bar hopping. Along the way, he gains self-realization. And with the end of the self-discovery journey, he decides to take that dangerous step into the unknown. His future is not yet written. And he wants to change the narrative. One crazy night after another brings Mike full circle. And everywhere he looks, there is a girl behind the glass smiling at him.

Slumming

Author : Seth Koven
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843588
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Slumming written by Seth Koven and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality. The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another. Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them. By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."

If This Is Heaven, Show Me Hell

Author : James A. Cates
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1636305601
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book If This Is Heaven, Show Me Hell written by James A. Cates and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTORY SECTION, PAGE 1 INTRODUCTORY SECTION, PAGE 1 We embrace the truth of an all-inclusive God and then act as though that God never hit the streets. This is a devotional for those who know better. Hope lives, in all places and at all times. These dialogues are unsettling by design. They are the stories of slumming angels, lost for a time, but able to find their way back. They highlight moments when God pulls up a chair beside those who are most in need. This devotional uses strong language and paints graphic scenes. It offers a point of contact for Christians who rebel against the church that cannot offer itself to all without judgement. It speaks to those whose lives, or the lives of those they love, have been so deeply damaged and scarred.

A Cry of Angels

Author : Jeff Fields
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033863X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book A Cry of Angels written by Jeff Fields and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An authentic cry of American innocence . . . The author seizes the reader with a Southern gift for storytelling and never lets go.”—Time Magazine It is the mid-1950s in Quarrytown, Georgia. In the slum known as the Ape Yard, hope’s last refuge is a boardinghouse where a handful of residents dream of a better life. Earl Whitaker, who is white, and Tio Grant, who is black, are both teenagers, both orphans, and best friends. In the same house live two of the most important adults in the boys’ lives: Em Jojohn, the gigantic Lumbee Indian handyman, is notorious for his binges, his rat-catching prowess, and his mysterious departures from town. Jayell Crooms, a gifted but rebellious architect, is stuck in a loveless marriage to a conventional woman intent on climbing the social ladder. Crooms’s vision of a new Ape Yard, rebuilt by its own residents, unites the four—and puts them on a collision course with a small-town Machiavelli who rules the community like a feudal lord. Jeff Fields’s exuberantly defined characters and his firmly rooted sense of place have earned A Cry of Angels an intensely loyal following. Its republication, more than three decades since it first appeared, is cause for celebration. “A humdinger . . . even better than To Kill a Mockingbird . . . funny, touching, and gripping.”—Chicago Daily News “Heartwarming . . . We find ourselves wondering why delightful novels like this aren’t written anymore, and grateful that this one has come along to fill the void.”—The New York Times “A flooded-with-life novel with a story to tell and characters to be cherished.”—Boston Sunday Globe

Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slum Heaven Gamblers

Author : Lungile Lolo Lubuzo
Publisher : Europa Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Slum Heaven Gamblers written by Lungile Lolo Lubuzo and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slum Heaven Gamblers is an exaggerated portrayal of life in a poverty-stricken slum and township plagued with gang thrills and community uproars in which a teenage girl narrates her journey of self-discovery surrounded by her internal conflicts and unweaving faith in righteousness, condemnation of sin and belief which is tested and defied by experiences. In abusive relationships, she finds comfort and wonders off to psychologically battle the good that is done for and to her. During her journey, she loses her innocence, and she battles with herself as a teenager in prime puberty state in gang violence and young first-time love ecstasies. The story sheds light on religious beliefs, the struggle to survive growth through the demand for age maturity, moral deprivation, and faith in God and gods. Lungile Lubuzo was born in the townships of the city of Durban, South Africa on the 10th of May 1993. The only surviving child of late mother Duduzile Patience Mhongo and father Michael Lubuzo raised by stepmother Monica Thobeka Lubuzo. A heritage of Zulu and Xhosa dynasties is her cultural inheritance. Official records of her education began in 2001 at Nobuhle International Primary school which is where the excessive hoppy of writing descriptive poetry began and later on graduated in Bachelor of Social work in the summer of 2018 at the University of South Africa. Besides creative writing she also enjoys creative arts and farming. Slum Heaven Gamblers is her first published book.

The Deadly Embrace

Author : Robert J. Mrazek
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646669
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Deadly Embrace written by Robert J. Mrazek and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of the Planned D-Day invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, Lieutenant Elizabeth “Liza” Marantz arrives in London, the city streets aflame in the aftermath of a massive Luftwaffe bombing attack. Teamed up with Major Sam Taggart, a troubled former New York City homicide detective, she must investigate the deaths of two female colleagues who were involved in sexual relationships with powerful Allied commanders. As Liza’s investigation leads from bomb-ravaged London to elegant English country estates, it becomes clear that more than one conspiracy is afoot—and that the very success of the war may rest in her hands. With rich dialogue and pulse-pounding suspense, The Deadly Embrace is a razor-sharp thriller, ingenious in its interweaving of fictional characters with real-life figures, and filled with fascinating historical atmosphere and detail.

Compass Points

Author : Robert Chodos
Publisher : Between The Lines
ISBN 13 : 1896357326
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Compass Points written by Robert Chodos and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 1999 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compass points is a radical new history of the twentieth century. Plot your own course through a wide range of creative and forthright articles by some of Canada's best essayists and authors. Each section, organized by decade, grapples with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in canada and abroad.

Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350198978
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Queer Angels in Post-1945 American Literature and Culture written by David Deutsch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer American art and culture. This book examines how the period after 1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer characters, primarily gay men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'. Deutsch explores how authors across diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allen Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in the profane and the profane in the sacred. Exploring how these writers used the trope of angelic outlaws to celebrate men who rebelled wilfully and nobly against religious, medical, legal and social repression in American society, this book sheds new light on dissent and queer identities in postmodern American literature.

The Literary Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Famous Women of the Bible

Author : Henry Davenport Northrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Famous Women of the Bible written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Digest

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Literary Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Angel Fire

Author : Christine Pope
Publisher : Dark Valentine Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angel Fire written by Christine Pope and published by Dark Valentine Press. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The winter brings more than just a chill… When strange forces begin to threaten her hometown, it’s up to Kirsten Swenson to save her friends and family from certain destruction. Agreeing to work with a mysterious Man in Black proves to be more than Kirsten ever bargained for, because Agent Martin Jones is far more than he seems. With his ability to awaken the powers that have lain dormant within her, Martin draws out the shocking secrets that were buried in Kirsten’s past, while also encouraging her to give in to her heart. But when the aliens force her to make the ultimate sacrifice, Kirsten realizes that sometimes following her heart isn’t enough. Keywords: Psychic, mind reader, mentalist, UFO, X-Files, UFO conspiracy, government cover-up, alien conspiracy, ufologist, first contact, gray aliens, reptilians, alien super-soldier, human alien romance, Sedona, Arizona, Southern California, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, romantic novels

Slum Beautiful

Author : Kenny Attaway
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467837008
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Slum Beautiful written by Kenny Attaway and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slum beautiful is a remarkable, straight forward, poetic and eye stretching memoir of KyDeja Morgan’s (Slum Beautiful) struggling life. In her first 28 years of life she was molested, practiced blasphemous acts, robbed, sold drugs, used drugs, prostituted, and arrested and almost prosecuted for the murders of both her mother and brother. Like her other siblings, Slum was raised in a dysfunctional family that practiced open sex, used drugs, gambled and treated their home as a hangout for other addicts. Through her avowed journey in life, it would take Slum 28 years and 11 months, along with becoming homeless to find the beauty in her slum (mind, body, soul and surroundings.) she was able to connect, dig out and remove some of the most scattered and unraveling moments of her life thanks to the acts of soliloquy, prison and an unlikely fallen angel along the way. However, before Slum could share her newly found beauty she has to beat a slew of charges, including breaking and entering, robbery, murder-and come fourth with secrets that inadvertently prolonged her vicious life cycle. Slum Beautiful- in retrospect not only visits the most dangerous place on earth in our heart’s memory, but gives a mind-boggling, touch of retrograde amnesia exploring the inducement of dysfunction in Slum’s family that includes, molestation, sibling rivalry, systematic dependency, drug dependency, self hate, cultural hate, racism, and women and child abuse. Slum Beautiful explores how cycles of injustice begin, and how they can continue to plague without culminating. Penned with a poetic pen, conscience mind, and honest heart, Slum beautiful is the Pangaea of life before the evolution of such disheartening events, and then some. It is an internal reflection of yours and mine. Find your beauty, before the wrong hands do. Without further do, Kenny Attaway presents Slum Beautiful: the soliloquy of the kandy lady.