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From Gangs to Grace

Author : Eddie Banales
Publisher : Family & Community Educational
ISBN 13 : 9780963037503
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book From Gangs to Grace written by Eddie Banales and published by Family & Community Educational. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story shares his childhood experiences while growing up in a Southern California barrio. He shares about his love & hate relationship between him & his father, an ex-gang member who had a tremendous amount of influence on his son's life. He shares about the dramatic life-style of the gang member, good & bad, & his constant struggles for survival. At age seventeen, Eddie was a hard-core gang member, a father, a high school student body president & husband. His story is sensitive, yet depicts the harsh realities of the barrio, his first pair of khakis; tainted love to all out gang wars; life & death on the streets. His story shares a message of hope to those with no understanding of the barrio life-style & to those stuck in the barrio.

The Galaxy Gang

Author : Grace DaValle
Publisher : Grace Jillian Davalle
ISBN 13 : 9780578784052
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Galaxy Gang written by Grace DaValle and published by Grace Jillian Davalle. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The galaxy is in trouble. An evil demon from the planet Grore, Xix Serphent, is creating a weapon: the planet-destroying kind. Who can help? The galaxy's fate is in the hands of five misfits. Can they stop Xix in time? Will they put their personal quests aside for the greater good? Battle after battle, the five individuals will eventually learn that making their own decisions is not an option in order to survive! Meet Taco Brentley: An intelligent human from Earth who would do just about anything to meet aliens. Meet Kofi White: A stubborn shapeshifter who wants to follow his own rules. However, on the planet Mersey, he has a soft spot for a little child and wants to build him a future. Meet Ute Cromwall: A fierce but compassionate healer from the planet Aketi, desperate to prove to herself she is a fighter. Meet Wood Slakin: A bored alien with super strength from the planet Orion who wants to escape his mundane life. Meet Seneca Flaghorn: A cocky ghost-assassin from the planet Hox who has her own secret agenda. When offered to save their dying planets from an evil demon Xix, they are all but forced to accept. Who doesn't like to play hero? Searching across the galaxy, these unlikely companions try to obtain the fireflies, magical pieces of light that can obliterate the darkness, before time runs out.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

Author : Robert E. Burns
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343013
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

Sons of Grace

Author : Mark Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984038305
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Sons of Grace written by Mark Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Ten Tough men went from organized crime, heroin, murder & motorcycle gangs and more, to peace and happiness. After living tough, checkered, and murderous lives, these are the real stories of conversion: the Motorcycle gang leader serving 50 years for murder, the Mafia Associate and friend to the highest levels of the east coast Cosa Nostra, the ego-driven corporate executive, the former heroin addict now a pastor, the Marine who tried to commit suicide with 375 pills. Their lives and five more changed when they said "now" to God...sometimes immediately, and sometimes slowly. These are their stories, questions, and journeys from hell to happiness.

Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace

Author : Amanda Warner
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 9781642370874
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Reformed: How a Life Sentence Became My Saving Grace written by Amanda Warner and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jojo Godinez grew up in L.A. County surrounded by gangs. The night he joined one, he swore to represent his gang until death. Fights, shootings, and arrests followed, but his love of violence waned through the years as more and more of his friends died around him. Amid the bloodshed, he met a homegirl, Dalia. At just 18 years old, they married in Vegas, but their honeymoon was interrupted when a crime Jojo committed brought him into court and eventually into a 45-years-to-life sentence. On the day he was found guilty, Dalia gave birth to their son. Suicidal, Jojo lost himself in the evils of the jail, trying to forget his former life and even his family. It was during a stint in solitary confinement that he came to terms with his need for change. He asked God for forgiveness and resolved to never fight again. Jojo's nonviolent rebellion against the prison culture of hatred and racism was consistently met with death threats but he was willing to risk everything for his newfound faith. In prison after prison, Jojo spread peace, while his wife, Dalia, and their son faithfully waited for the day he finally came home. The powerful true story of Jojo Godinez shows the incredible transformation of a man once written off as nothing more than a criminal."

County Lines

Author : Robert McLean
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030333620
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book County Lines written by Robert McLean and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief sheds light on evolving drug markets and the county lines phenomenon in the British context. Drawing upon empirical research gathered in the field between 2012-2019 across two sites, Scotland’s West Coast and Merseyside in England, this book adopts a grounded approach to the drug supply model, detailing how drugs are purchased, sold and distributed at every level of the supply chain at both sites. The authors conducted interviews with practitioners, offenders, ex-offenders and those members of the general public most effected by organised crime. The research explores how drug markets have continued to evolve, accumulating in the phenomenon that is county lines. It explores how such behavior has gradually become ever more intertwined with other forms of organised criminal activity. Useful for researchers, policy makers, and law enforcement officials, this brief recommends a rethinking of current reactive policing strategies.

Born to Kill

Author : T. J. English
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453234276
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Born to Kill written by T. J. English and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “riveting” true story of the Vietnamese gang that terrorized Manhattan’s Chinatown, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Westies (Newsday). They are children of the Vietnam War. Born and raised in the wasteland left by American bombs and napalm, these young men know a particular brand of cruelty—which they are about to export to the United States. When the Vietnamese gangs come to Chinatown, they adopt a name remembered from GI’s helmets: “Born to Kill.” And kill they do, in a frenzy of violence that shocks even the old-school Chinese gangsters who once ran Canal Street. Killing brings them turf, money, and power, but also draws the government’s eye. Even as Born to Kill reaches its height, it is marked for destruction. This story is told from the perspective of Tinh Ngo, a young gang member who eventually grows disenchanted with murder and death. When he decides to inform on his brothers to the police, he enters a shadow world far more dangerous than any gangland.

American Project

Author : Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044657
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book American Project written by Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with isolation and overcrowding, with drugs, gang violence, and neglect. As the wrecking ball brings down some of these concrete monoliths, Sudhir Venkatesh seeks to reexamine public housing from the inside out, and to salvage its troubled legacy.

Gangs of America

Author : Ted Nace
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576753190
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Gangs of America written by Ted Nace and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gangs of America' traces the evolution of the corporation, one of the core institutions of the modern world. It ties political debates about multi-national trade agreements, financial scandals and scores of other specific issues into the narrative account.

Grace After Midnight

Author : Felicia Pearson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grace After Midnight written by Felicia Pearson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearson, who plays Snoop on the HBO hit series "The Wire," reveals her incredible, hard-knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.

The Orange Eats Creeps

Author : GRACE. KRILANOVICH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781953387509
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Orange Eats Creeps written by GRACE. KRILANOVICH and published by . This book was released on 2025-01-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Foundation "5 under 35" honoree -- 2010. A Best Book of 2010 --NPR, Amazon, Shelf Unbound The Believer Book Award, Finalist Indie Bookseller's Choice Awards, Finalist "Krilanovich's work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins." --Rachel Syme, NPR A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along "The Highway That Eats People," stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks' "Bob" and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl. The New Classics series aims to celebrate the enduring cultural impact that publications have made by refreshing these evergreen titles with cover designs and new introductions or afterwords by acclaimed writers and artists that speak to the resonance and relevance of these works.

The Grace Year

Author : Kim Liggett
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250145465
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Grace Year written by Kim Liggett and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power. Survive the year. No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. “A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.” – Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author

The Masterpiece

Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : NavPress
ISBN 13 : 1496418956
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Masterpiece written by Francine Rivers and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller “This character-driven romance will enthrall [Rivers’s] many fans.” —Library Journal The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece. A successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want—money, women, fame. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. But as she gets to know the enigmatic man behind the reputation, it’s as if the jagged pieces of both of their pasts slowly begin to fit together . . . until something so unexpected happens that it changes the course of their relationship—and both their lives—forever. “Rivers deftly threads Roman’s and Grace’s lives together as they tiptoe around their emotional scars, eventually shifting into a dance of tentative steps toward a love neither can resist. Fans of Christian romance will delight in this tale of salvation through love.” —Kirkus Reviews “Richly detailed characters with traumatic pasts are woven together with biblical truths and redemptive themes. . . . This is an amazing, beautifully written tale to be savored and pondered and shared with others.” —Romantic Times “Readers will marvel at Rivers’s storytelling arc encompassing the reconciliation of gritty past misdeeds and the work in progress of a life of forgiveness.” —Booklist “Fans of Francine Rivers will eagerly devour The Masterpiece and find exactly what they are looking for: a beautifully written story of faith, romance, and the power that true freedom can bring.” —Bookreporter

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Author : Edward Abbey
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795317360
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Monkey Wrench Gang written by Edward Abbey and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle). When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved over by greedy government hacks and their corrupt corporate coconspirators. And the manic, beer-guzzling, rabidly antisocial ex-Green Beret isn’t just getting mad. Hayduke plans to get even. Together with a radical feminist from the Bronx; a wealthy, billboard-torching libertarian MD; and a disgraced Mormon polygamist, Hayduke’s ready to stick it to the Man in the most creative ways imaginable. By the time they’re done, there won’t be a bridge left standing, a dam unblown, or a bulldozer unmolested from Arizona to Utah. Edward Abbey’s most popular novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang is an outrageous romp with ultra-serious undertones that is as relevant today as it was in the early days of the environmental movement. The author who Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove) once dubbed “The Thoreau of the American West” has written a true comedic classic with brains, heart, and soul that more than justifies the call from the Los Angeles Times Book Review that we should all “praise the earth for Edward Abbey!” “Mixes comedy and chaos with enough chase sequences to leave you hungering for more.”—The San Francisco Chronicle

I'll Never Write My Memoirs

Author : Grace Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476765081
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book I'll Never Write My Memoirs written by Grace Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic music and film legend Grace Jones gives an in-depth account of her stellar career, professional and personal life, and the signature look that catapulted her into the stardom stratosphere. Grace Jones, a veritable “triple-threat” as acclaimed actress, singer, and model, has dominated the entertainment industry since her emergence as a model in New York City in 1968. Quickly discovered for her obvious talent and cutting-edge style, Grace signed her first record deal in 1977 and became one of the more unforgettable characters to emerge from the Studio 54 disco scene, releasing the all-time favorite hits, “Pull Up to the Bumper,” “Slave to the Rhythm,” and “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You).” And with her sexually charged, outrageous live shows in the New York City nightclub circuit, Grace soon earned the title of “Queen of the Gay Discos.” But with the dawn of the ’80s came a massive anti-disco movement across the US, leading Grace to focus on experimental-based work and put her two-and-a-half-octave voice to good use. It was also around this time that she changed her look to suit the times with a detached, androgynous image. In this first-ever memoir, Grace gives an exclusive look into the transformation to her signature style and discusses how she expanded her musical triumph to success in the acting world, beginning in the 1984 fantasy-action film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, then the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, and later in Eddie Murphy’s Boomerang. Featuring sixteen pages of stunning full-color photographs, Miss Grace Jones takes us on a journey from Grace’s religious upbringing in Jamaica to her heyday in Paris and New York in the ’70s and ’80s, all the way to present-day London, in what promises to be a no holds barred tell-all for the ages.

America's Backyard

Author : Grace Livingstone
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136110
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book America's Backyard written by Grace Livingstone and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has shaped Latin American history, condemning it to poverty and inequality by intervening to protect the rich and powerful. America’s Backyard tells the story of that intervention. Using newly declassified documents, Grace Livingstone reveals the US role in the darkest periods of Latin American history, including Pinochet’s coup in Chile, the Contra War in Nicaragua and the death squads in El Salvador. She shows how George W Bush’s administration used the War on Terror as a new pretext for intervention; how it tried to destabilise leftwing governments and push back the ‘pink tide’ washing across the Americas. America’s Backyard also includes chapters on drugs, economy and culture. It explains why US drug policy has caused widespread environmental damage yet failed to reduce the supply of cocaine, and it looks at the US economic stake in Latin America and the strategies of the big corporations. Today Latin Americans are demanding respect and an end to the Washington Consensus. Will the White House listen?

Healing for the Soul

Author : Pastor Eric A. Folds
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 161996600X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Healing for the Soul written by Pastor Eric A. Folds and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelist and Pastor Eric A. Folds was born and raised in West Virginia. He is a former member of the Army's 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), and a Persian Gulf War Veteran. He was also a former United States Army Recruiter and paratrooper. He was baptized with the Holy Spirit at a revival held at New Birth Pentecostal Holiness church in Fayetteville, North Carolina while stationed at Fort Bragg on March 23, 1988 at 7.35 p.m. The revivalist at that time was District Elder Clifton Jones of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Eric Folds accepted his call to ministry on January 1, 1989 and was licensed and ordained by the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc at the organization's national convention in Chicago, Illinois in 1991 after completing the organization's ministerial introduction course and ordination preparation courses from Aenon Bible College. Pastor Folds is the founder and the Pastor of The Christian Church of God, Inc. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin a tax-exempt 501c(3) organization. If you live in or around Milwaukee Wisconsin you are welcome to visit at 10.a.m. on Sunday at 3801 W. Center Street. He is a witness to others about the Good News of the Kingdom wherever he travels. He has also been a treatment foster care parent in Milwaukee Wisconsin and the President and CEO of a foster care agency known as "Brighter Destinies" in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Evangelist Eric Folds has currently devoted his time to the ministry and has been highly involved with helping others and spreading the gospel message. He has been writing for many years. He is an Evangelist first and foremost and spreads the gospel news wherever he travels. He is married to Kimberly Folds, a court reporter in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has two sons Gabriel Folds and Joshua Folds.