Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195160963
"A definitive history of homelessness in the United States..." -- page 4 of cover.
Author : Kenneth L. Kusmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0190281464
Covering the entire period from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, this book is the first scholarly history of the homeless in America. Drawing on sources that include records of charitable organizations, sociological studies, and numerous memoirs of formerly homeless persons, Kusmer demonstrates that the homeless have been a significant presence on the American scene for over two hundred years. He probes the history of homelessness from a variety of angles, showing why people become homeless; how charities and public authorities dealt with this social problem; and the diverse ways in which different class, ethnic, and racial groups perceived and responded to homelessness. Kusmer demonstrates that, despite the common perception of the homeless as a deviant group, they have always had much in common with the average American. Focusing on the millions who suffered downward mobility, Down and Out, On the Road provides a unique view of the evolution of American society and raises disturbing questions about the repeated failure to face and solve the problem of homelessness.
Author : Alice Schertle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152766221
Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she forgets to be careful when she stops to pick apples.
Author : Stephanie McAfee
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451239903
New York Times bestselling author Stephanie McAfee delivers another irreverent, laugh-out-loud page-turner about the (mis)adventures of plus-size spitfire Graciela “Ace” Jones. With her fiancé now her ex-fiancé, Ace has hightailed it back to Bugtussle, Mississippi, and back to her Gramma Jones’s house. Her best friends, Lilly and Chloe, are delighted she’s back, but Ace still has some challenges ahead of her. For one thing, her replacement as Bugtussle High School’s art teacher, Cameron Becker, refuses to vacate the position. So Ace is stuck working as a substitute teacher while harboring fantasies of running Miss Becker out of town. On top of that, Lilly and Chloe are obsessed with setting her up on less-than-romantic blind dates—even though all she wants is a break from her pitiful love life. To ease her troubled mind, Ace resolves to restore her grandmother’s gardens to their former glory. But in the well-worn gardening book she’s dug out of her grandmother’s attic there are a series of suspicious notes that indicate her grandmother may have had a special someone in her past. Now, with her faithful chiweenie, Buster Loo, by her side, Ace is determined to get to the bottom of her grandmother’s secret life, all the while hoping her own life isn’t about to implode....
Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307386457
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Author : Kate Duke
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Lizard's log, Fox's den, and other animal homes are discovered on a walk down the road.
Author : Linda Castillo
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250121280
In this electrifying new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series, a convicted murderer is on the run and Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must catch him before he strikes again.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : A G Printing & Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 2024-07-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words. There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade. They used to sell postcards on the Boulevard St Michel. The curious thing was that the postcards were sold in sealed packets as pornographic ones, but were actually photographs of chateaux on the Loire; the buyers did not discover this till too late, and of course never complained. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk. The filth of their room was such that one could smell it on the floor below. According to Madame F., neither of the Rougiers had taken off their clothes for four years.
Author : Bowie Ibarra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439180709
From his small apartment in Austin, Texas, George Zaragosa watches in awe as surreal reports of a bizarre plague flood the national news. Until today, his life as a local theater teacher was stable and ordinary, if overshadowed by the unsolved murder of his beautiful fiancée. Now, hearing how those who died from an unstoppable virus are coming back to life in growing numbers, George knows what he has to do: leave everything behind in the city and get home to San Uvalde, just down the road. It began in New York City, when the dead arose from the hospitals and morgues, attacking the living and pulling them into their growing hordes. State by state, the nation goes into lockdown, whole cities and towns fight for survival, and George must navigate military roadblocks, FEMA camps, and street thugs to make it home. But most of all, his journey down the road will require him to stave off the horrifying creatures hungering for his flesh. . . .
Author : Tami Hoag
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101553626
A woman will do whatever it takes to uncover the truth about her missing daughter in this taut thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag. California, 1990—four years after Lauren Lawton’s sixteen-year-old daughter disappeared, the world has given up the girl for dead. Lauren’s husband took his own life. Her younger daughter Leah is still looking for what’s left of her childhood. But Lauren never surrendered. She knows who took her child, and there’s not a shred of evidence against him. Seeking a fresh start, Lauren and Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll. So does Lauren’s suspect. And suddenly it feels like history is about to repeat itself. Leah is turning sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning predator on the hunt. But as sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez and his team sift through the circumstances of an increasingly disturbing case, a stunning question changes everything they thought they knew. . . .
