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Author : Hugh Howey
Publisher : John Joseph Adams
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 035821324X
Nearly sixty teens awaken halfway through their training, stranded on a harsh alien world with few supplies, no adults, and led by a treacherous artificial intelligence, but their greatest enemy is each other.
Author : Reuben Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0316451495
A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air
Author : Tom Macher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501112643
From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys’ homes—the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother’s house, sent to a boys’ home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to survive—outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-won sobriety, these men—the broken, the hardscrabble, the near gone—become his salvation. Macher captures the trials of sobriety—suicide, death, recovery—and the unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a former child actor, a young teen struggling with schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became Macher’s loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and subversive, Halfway is a brutally honest portrait of the world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds that form a family.
Author : Mia Hall
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,22 MB
Release :
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN :
One dragon prince is unconscious. One is guarding Carina’s best friend. And as for Carina, well she’s racing behind an elf who’s trying to get her to use magic. Wait, what? Just when she thinks she’s getting things figured out, one dragon prince has locked the other in the dungeons. Carina demands answers. Ever tried demanding answers from a dragon prince? Good luck, Carina.
Author : Barbara O'Connor
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374314462
A heartfelt middle-grade novel from New York Times bestselling author Barbara O’Connor about a boy whose life is upended after the loss of his older brother—timeless, classic, and whimsical. Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, “Let’s you and me go see my world, little man.” But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn’t know how to see the world without him. Then he meets Posey, the brash new girl from next door, and an eccentric man named Banjo, who’s off on a bodacious adventure of his own. What follows is a summer of taking chances, becoming braver, and making friends—and maybe Walter can learn who he wants to be without the brother he always wanted to be like. Halfway to Harmony is an utterly charming story about change and growing up. Don't miss Barbara O'Connor's other middle-grade work—like Wish; Wonderland; How to Steal a Dog; Greetings from Nowhere; Fame and Glory in Freedom, Georgia; The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester; and more!
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Page : 395 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
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ISBN : 0373601751
Author : Francis Chan
Publisher : David C Cook
Page : pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 9780781404945
Halfway Herbert only does things half way and never finishes anything, but when he tells a half-truth, deciding he isn't exactly lying, everything falls apart. Suddenly Halfway Herbert learns that a Christlike life takes more than a partial effort. But can he finally give something his all? Halfway Herbert helps children discover the importance of honesty and offering their best for God in all they do. It's a delightful tale about how even a child can follow the 1st commandment and live fully for God.
Author : C. R. E. Gonzalez
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2013-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 144979498X
"This book is a story of a mother and a child who were both abused and found love in the middle of a struggle to become whole." When I decided to write this book, I promised myself that I would be honest, even if it would mean that others would view me differently or disagree with me. I am entitled to express the voice of circumstance and changes that have occurred in my life, and I have chosen to do so by writing.
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618439201
From the author of the best-selling King Leopold's Ghost, this haunting and deeply honest memoir tells of Adam Hochschild's conflicted relationship with his father, the head of a multinational mining corporation. The author lyrically evokes his privileged childhood on an Adirondack estate, a colorful uncle who was a pioneer aviator and fighter ace, and his first explorations of the larger world he encountered as he came of age in the tumultuous 1960s. But above all this is a story of a father and his only son and of the unexpected peace finally made between them.
Author : Anika Fajardo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534495916
When seventh-grade classmates Mattie Gómez and Mercedes Miller realize they have the same Colombian father, they hatch a plan to run away from a school field trip to meet him for the first time.