[PDF] The Bus For America eBook

Author : George Pereny
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 2016-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1365343529

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THE BUS FOR AMERICA George Pereny's great new book is a mixture of memory, history and poetry, telling the story of a remarkable life that started under the repression of Soviet rule in his native Hungary. His family made a brave and dangerous escape from Hungary when Pereny was a boy, crossing the ocean and coming to the United States after a momentous decision to take the bus for America rather than the bus for Canada. Pereny had an adventurous education in America, coming to love rock music and words, eventually deciding on a teaching career that took him to inner-city neighborhoods and kids in desperate need of his poetry and vision. Along the way he discovered an aptitude and passion for the martial arts and had a spiritual rebirth in Christ. George's story is also a quest for love that brings him to many women until he finds the right one. Like many great books, THE BUS FOR AMERICA ends with a wedding and a new chance for a happy life in Pereny's adopted America.

Author : Douglas Brinkley
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 2003-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781560254966

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Professor Douglas Brinkley arranged to teach a six-week experimental class aboard a fully equipped sleeper bus. The class would visit thirty states and ten national parks. They would read twelve books by great American writers. They would see Bob Dylan in Seattle, gamble at a Vegas casino, dance to Bourbon Street jazz in New Orleans, pay homage to Elvis Presley’s Graceland and William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak, ride the whitewater rapids on the Rio Grande, and experience a California earthquake. Their journey took them to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Harry Truman’s Independence, and Theodore Roosevelt’s North Dakota badlands. And it gave them the unforgettable experience of meeting some of their cultural heroes, including William S. Burroughs and Ken Kesey, who took the gang for a spin in his own psychedelic bus. Driven by Doug Brinkley’s energetic prose, The Majic Bus is a spirited travelogue of a unique experience.

Author : Mike Pentecost
Publisher : Mike Pentecost
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780985141509

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Have you ever ridden on a Greyhound Bus? If you have, this book will bring back some memories. If you haven't, prepare to hop alongside new author Mike Pentecost and join him for this 30 day adventure around America. Bus People: 30 Days on the Road with America's Nomads is a compelling look at life on the bus. Witty, compassionate and revealing, Bus People affords you the opportunity to get better connected with a community of people who live their lives in transition. The bus symbolizes hope and new beginnings for many. But, it is an uncomfortable, inconvenient and unpredictable mode of travel. Bus People focuses on the stories, the hopes, dreams and despair that accompany the 18 million passengers that Greyhound serves each year. Come along for the ride!

Author : Teresa Zerilli-Edelglass
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0985931000

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Thrown Under the Bus is the compelling, frank, often heart-wrenching account of one woman's courageous stand against workplace harassment - an odyssey that all but consumed her life as it nearly drove her to the brink of a nervous breakdown. The author tells her story of a true workplace nightmare, wherein she began a twenty-something brimming with enthusiasm, who quickly found herself face to face with unimaginable evil; her coveted career morphing into a harrowing fight for her life. This is a case of workplace harassment for the record books; a lesson for every American who, like the author once did, believes that there is a legitimate system in place to protect the diligent, hard-working American from undue & unjust harm. The book's overriding message exemplifies the mystique of survival, demonstrating we often have greater fortitude within ourselves than we know.

Author : Jo S. Kittinger
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635924987

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Here is the remarkable story of Bus #2857 and its passengers, including Rosa Parks, who changed history in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955. Like all buses in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s, bus #2857 was segregated: white passengers sat in the front, and Black passengers sat in the back. Bus #2857 was ordinary -- until a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the Civil Rights moment, which was led by a young minister named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For 382 days, Black passengers chose to walk rather than ride the buses in Montgomery. This picture book is told from the point of view of the bus, telling its story from the streets where it rode, to its present home in the Henry Ford Museum.

Author : William Miller
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781584300267

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A black child protests an unjust law in this story loosely based on Rosa Parks' historic decision not to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.

Author : Fred D. Gray
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 18,39 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1588382869

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"Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the desegregation of Alabama schools and the Selma march, and founder of the Tuskegee human and civil rights multicultural center."

Author : Donnie Williams
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1556526768

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Presents the stories of heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, which brought Dr Martin Luther King, Jr to prominence and improved the lives of all black Americans. This title includes a look at King's trial and an examination of how black and white lawyers worked together to overturn segregation in the courtroom.

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Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782856919

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Come along on an exciting bus ride from a Guatemalan village to a market town with this fresh take on a favourite song. Features Latin-inspired singalong and endnotes about life in Guatemala. Enhanced CD includes audio singalong and video animation.