Home of the Hammers
Author : John Dillon
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781785311925
Hammer and Hoe
Author : Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1469625490
Book Description
A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals. After discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism.
Brownsville
Author : Oscar Casares
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316055174
Book Description
"Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsville, Texas, is a town like many others. It is a place where people work hard to create better lives for their children, where people bear grudges against their neighbors, where love blossoms only to fade, and where the only real certainty is that life holds surprises. In his sparkling debut, Oscar Casares creates a cast of unforgettable characters confronting everyday possibilities and contradictions: Diego, an eleven-year-old whose job at a fireworks stand teaches him a lesson in defiance; Bony, a young man whose discovery of a monkey's head on his lawn drives a wedge between him and his parents; Lola, whose stolen bowling ball offers an unlikely chance for change. The achievement of Brownsville lies in its remarkably honest portrayal of these lives -- the lives of people whose dreams and yearnings and regrets are at once unique and universal. "Marvelous...Brownsville resembles early Steinbeck work more than anything else." --Carolyn See, Washington Post
The Hammers
Author : J. Hovey Kemp
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2021-06-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780578942148
Book Description
A book about the author's four-year (1972-1976) journey as a Harvard heavyweight oarsman.
Yasmin's Hammer
Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781620142332
Book Description
A young Bangladeshi girl who helps support her family by working in a brickyard finds a way to make her dream of going to school and learning to read a reality.
Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer
Author : David Shannon
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1324003456
Book Description
Beloved picture book creator David Shannon introduces a new character in a satisfyingly silly and subversive take on a familiar parable. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Meet Mr. Nogginbody. Armed with his new hammer he fixes his floor then the wall and the picture on the wall and the shower and the stop sign at the end of the street. . . What else will Mr. Nogginbody “fix”? Celebrated author David Shannon’s comically misguided new character gets carried away by success, and kids will laugh out loud at the consequences.
Surviving My Birthright
Author : Casey Hammer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781517534363
Book Description
This is a revealing and inspirational memoir by Casey Hammer, sole granddaughter of the American billionaire, industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Armand Hammer. SURVIVING MY BIRTHRIGHT is a story of hope, love, and the reclamation of empowerment. Casey's is a journey of discovery - recounting many years of blocked memories, violence, nightmares, hazardous behavior, guilt and feeling unworthy of joy or happiness. By taking responsibility for her life, no longer being prepared to accept the role of victim and by facing the truth, Casey began to heal. Hopefully, her story will inspire many others to do the same.
Hammers of Ulric
Author : Dan Abnett
Publisher :
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781789992212
Book Description
Luther
Author : Susan K. Leigh
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780758623829
Book Description
This Luther biography is presented in sequential art graphic novel style bringing to life Luther's story of adventure, courage, and faith.
Hammer Wives
Author : Carlton Mellick Iii
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621050735
Book Description
Fish-eyed mutants, oceans of insects, and flesh-eating women with hammers for heads. Like a real world Kilgore Trout, cult author Carlton Mellick III has been pumping out dozens of the weirdest, trashiest, most imaginative books you've probably never heard of... even though you definitely should. Hammer Wives collects six of his most popular novelettes and short stories, including: SIMPLE MACHINES A man discovers that his body is actually a machine run by dozens of miniature clones of himself. RED WORLD A recovering junky must save his 8-year-old brother from a life of prostitution in a surreal version of New York City... a place where street kids mutate into fish-like creatures, the homeless stilt-walk through oceans of insects, and the only colors left visible to the human eye are shades of red. HAMMER WIVES A young man inherits ten eternally youthful wives from an estranged uncle he never knew he had... which wouldn't have been such a bad thing if they didn't have giant hammers for heads or a tendency of bludgeoning people to death for fun, food, or sexual pleasure. LEMON KNIVES 'N' COCKROACHES Cockroach-like children survive the zombie apocalypse by hiding between the walls of on old school building. WAR PIG In a steam-powered underworld, a bloodthirsty pig-man boxer will sacrifice everything to prevent his son from following in his footsteps. THE MAN WITH THE STYROFOAM BRAIN The recently departed reflect on the stupid reasons why they sold their souls to the devil.
