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A Little Piece of Light

Author : Donna Hylton
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316559210
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book A Little Piece of Light written by Donna Hylton and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Random Family meets Orange Is the New Black in A Little Piece of Light, a memoir of survival, redemption, hope, and sisterhood from a bold new voice on the front lines of the criminal justice reform movement. Like so many women before her and so many women yet to come, Donna Hylton's early life was a nightmare of abuse that left her feeling alone and convinced of her worthlessness. In 1986, she took part in a horrific act and was sentenced to 25 years to life for kidnapping and second-degree murder. It seemed that Donna had reached the end--at age 19, due to her own mistakes and bad choices, her life was over. A Little Piece of Light tells the heartfelt, often harrowing tale of Donna's journey back to life as she faced the truth about the crime that locked her away for 27 years...and celebrated the family she found inside prison that ultimately saved her. Behind the bars of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, alongside this generation's most infamous criminals, Donna learned to fight, then thrive. For the first time in her life, she realized she was not alone in the abuse and misogyny she experienced--and she was also not alone in fighting back. Since her release in 2012, Donna has emerged as a leading advocate for criminal justice reform and women's rights who speaks to politicians, violent abusers, prison officials, victims, and students to tell her story. But it's not her story alone, she is quick to say. She also represents the stories of thousands of women who have been unable to speak for themselves, until now.

A Prisoner of Fortune

Author : Paul Pellew
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783061715
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A Prisoner of Fortune written by Paul Pellew and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not the biography of a well-known politician, artist or academic, but an uncensored story about an unusual person, born into unusual circumstances, living an out-of-the-ordinary life, which he would like to share quite candidly with you. A Prisoner of Fortune: My Strange World is the story of Paul Pellew’s life. “I wrote this book whilst the grey matter was still cooperative, and because I wished to share a selection of personal thoughts and happenings,” he explains. It is a sometimes angst-stricken story which, tinged with humour, sadness and joy, is both an informative and educational read. Paul provides the opportunity to share the many trials, tribulations and temptations of his life, as he walks through the corridors of nobility and the wilderness of insecurity. The author’s words are tinted with a lighthearted optimism, but readers will soon recognise the familiar feeling that all that glistens is not golden, and that a silver spoon can quickly be transformed into a threatening knife.

Bellarion the Fortunate

Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Bellarion the Fortunate written by Rafael Sabatini and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bellarion the Fortunate" by Rafael Sabatini. 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 Fortune

Author : Charlie Sipos
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595362370
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Fortune written by Charlie Sipos and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smiling Jimmy, a young sailor who has just arrived in England from a voyage on the South Seas, stumbles into a harbor canteen where he hopes to have his hungry stomach filled with homemade food. Instead, he gets into a fight with thirty patrons, and meets a beautiful young lady in dire need. The distressed Miss O'Neal clings to Jimmy, who promises to escort her to Africa to find her inheritance-a hidden oil field. Traveling along are the canteen's owner, and the hope for better future the trust of thirty patrons, the disadvantaged people of the harbor. Crossing France is an adventure itself, mostly because the diversified transportation they're forced to use. As they travel from Algiers to the South Sahara, they are forced to fight gangsters, spies, and even the French Foreign legion. Miss O'Neal and Smiling Jimmy arrive to Ohkmar Oasis, and learn the truth about her inheritance. Half year later Jimmy discovers the real truth, and on the end everything is fine. The girl has her inheritance and the hero gets the girl. The Fortune is a chock-full of adventure with unpredictable twists, and characters you have to love. They are down on their luck, but always maintain good manners. after a little hesitation.

Bellarion the Fortunate

Author : Rafael Sabatini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Bellarion the Fortunate written by Rafael Sabatini and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bellarion, a young man set on joining the priesthood, is diverted from his calling to serve the Princess Valeria. He remains with her for five years, serving her faithfully despite her cold response. Yet when the time comes for him to leave, they both find that the passion and romance of 15th-century Italy has left its mark ...

The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls

Author : John Lekich
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1554699800
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of Snowflake Falls written by John Lekich and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Henry Holloway isn't immoral, he's just hungry. His mother died when he was nine, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Andy and his friends, all amiable small-time crooks. When Uncle Andy is sent to prison, Henry takes up residence in an abandoned tree house in order to escape the notice of Social Services. His mission? To survive on his own while preserving his cherished independence. Fortunately, Henry possesses all the skills it takes to be a successful house burglar. Henry is an unusually resourceful and considerate burglar—often tidying up the places he robs—until he's caught. The terms of his probation? He must live with the Wingates, a strange family in a small town called Snowflake Falls. Henry is just getting used to his temporary family when the newly liberated Uncle Andy and his criminal friends draw him into a plan to rob the citizens of Snowflake Falls. Will Henry be loyal to his uncle or will he break with the past and do the right thing?

McClure's Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book McClure's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fortunate Mistress

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1633558207
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Fortunate Mistress written by Daniel Defoe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune. Its narrator tells the story of her own 'wicked' life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. A resourceful adventuress, she is also an unforgiving analyst of her own susceptibilities, who tells us of the price she pays for her successes. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced: by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past. Unlike Defoe's other penitent anti-heroes, however, she fails to triumph over these weaknesses. Roxana's fame lies not only in the heroine's 'vast variety of fortunes', but in her attempts to understand the sometimes bitter lessons of her life as a 'Fortunate Mistress'.

The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana)

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192591665
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Fortunate Mistress (Roxana) written by Daniel Defoe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I liv'd indeed like a Queen; or if you will have me confess, that my Condition had still the Reproach of a Whore, I may say, I was sure, the Queen of Whores.' Left destitute by her husband, the heroine of Defoe's final novel has to choose between her virtue and her life. Choosing survival, she makes her way as a kept woman and courtesan. The Fortunate Mistress (1724), also known under the title Roxana, tells the story of how she climbs society's ladder by dint of her own enterprise, shedding and gaining multiple identities as she moves through the worlds of business and finance, and across the trade capitals of Europe. Amassing a fortune, her taste for men and luxuries veers increasingly to the aristocratic and exotic, culminating when she dances before the King at a masquerade dressed in the garb of a Turkish Sultana--at which point she is granted the name by which she is known to history, Roxana. Despite her rise, Roxana's past never recedes from view, and her choices eventally begin to weigh on her, prompting an excruciating self-reckoning that is only compounded as the children she has abandoned return, threatening to expose this past to public view. Defoe resists easy solutions in a sprawling and complex novel which shows an unprecedented degree of psychological realism: readers experience the interplay of circumstance, need, desire, religion, and social convention that can allow the development of a moral sense, or conspire to suppress it. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Solitary

Author : Albert Woodfox
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146902
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Solitary written by Albert Woodfox and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.

Prisoners of Fortune

Author : Ruel Perley Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Fortune written by Ruel Perley Smith and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prisoner's Friend

Author : Charles Spear
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner's Friend written by Charles Spear and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Prisoner

Author : Eden Phillpotts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The American Prisoner written by Eden Phillpotts and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Past Crimes

Author : Julie Rosemary Wileman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473823196
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Past Crimes written by Julie Rosemary Wileman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes Ð and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past. ??This book introduces some of those techniques, and explains how they have been used not only to solve modern crimes, but also to investigate past wrong-doing. Archaeological and historical evidence of crimes from mankind's earliest days is presented, as well as evidence of how criminals were judged and punished.?Each society has had a different approach to law and order, and these approaches are discussed here with examples ranging from Ancient Egypt to Victorian England Ð police forces, courts, prisons and executions have all left their traces in the physical and written records. The development of forensic approaches to crime is also discussed as ways to collect and analyse evidence were invented by pioneer criminologists.??From the murder of a Neanderthal man to bank fraud in the 19th century, via ancient laws about religion and morality and the changes in social conditions and attitudes, a wide range of cases are included Ð some terrible crimes, some amusing anecdotes and some forms of ancient law-breaking that remain very familiar.

Fortune in My Eyes

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1480302465
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Fortune in My Eyes written by David Rothenberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Rothenberg's multilayered life thrust him into Broadway's brightest lights, prison riots, political campaigns, civil rights sit-ins, and a Central American civil war. In his memoir, Fortune in My Eyes, his journey includes many of the most celebrated names in the theater: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Boyer, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, Charles Laughton, Alvin Ailey, and numerous others. David produced an Off-Broadway prison drama, Fortune and Men's Eyes, which reshaped his life. John Herbert's chilling play led directly to the creation of the Fortune Society, which has evolved into one of the nation's most formidable advocacy and service organizations in criminal justice. David was Elizabeth Taylor's opening night date at the Richard Burton Hamlet – a distant cry from his entering Attica prison during that institution's famed inmate uprising...just two of the experiences revealed in this memoir. As a theater publicist and producer – and as a social activist – he shares experiences with presidents (JFK and Bill Clinton) and with anonymous men and women, out of prison, who have fought to reclaim their lives. The human drama of the formerly incarcerated is a match for many of the entertainment world's most fabled characters.

The Prisoner's Friend

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner's Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soccer under the Swastika

Author : Kevin E. Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442261633
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Soccer under the Swastika written by Kevin E. Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of the twentieth century, the game of soccer was becoming firmly established as the sport of the masses across Europe, even as war was engulfing the continent. Intimately woven into the war was the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, genocide on a scale never seen before. For those victims ensnared by the Nazi regime, soccer became a means of survival and a source of inspiration even when surrounded by profound suffering and death. In Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust, Kevin E. Simpson reveals the surprisingly powerful role soccer played during World War II. From the earliest days of the Nazi dictatorship, as concentration camps were built to hold so-called enemies, captives competed behind the walls and fences of the Nazi terror state. Simpson uncovers this little-known piece of history, rescuing from obscurity many poignant survivor testimonies, old accounts of wartime players, and the diaries of survivors and perpetrators. In victim accounts and rare photographs—many published for the first time in this book—hidden stories of soccer in almost every Nazi concentration camp appear. To these prisoners, soccer was a glimmer of joy amid unrelenting hunger and torture, a show of resistance against the most heinous regime the world had ever seen. With the increasing loss of firsthand memories of these events, Soccer under the Swastika reminds us of the importance in telling these compelling stories. And as modern day soccer struggles to combat racism in the terraces around the world, the endurance of the human spirit embodied through these personal accounts offers insight and inspiration for those committed to breaking down prejudices in the sport today. Thoughtfully written and meticulously researched, this book will fascinate and enlighten readers of all generations.