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| Author | : Eddie Banales |
| Publisher | : Family & Community Educational |
| Total Pages | : 115 |
| Release | : 1991-08-01 |
| Genre | : Gangs |
| ISBN | : 9780963037503 |
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.
| Author | : Grace DaValle |
| Publisher | : Grace Jillian Davalle |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2020-10-11 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780578784052 |
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.
| Author | : Mark Hughes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2011-10-10 |
| Genre | : Christian men |
| ISBN | : 9780984038305 |
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.
| Author | : Robert E. Burns |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2011-08-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0820343013 |
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.
| Author | : Cindy Thomson |
| Publisher | : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1414368437 |
"Listen to me," her mother had said. "I don't care what lies your father once spoke to you, darlin'. . . . Remember instead this: You are smart. You are important. You are able." Grace McCaffery hopes the bustling streets of New York hold all the promise the lush hills of Ireland did not. As her efforts to earn enough money to bring her mother to America fail, she wonders if her new Brownie camera could be the answer. But a casual stroll through a beautiful New York City park turns into a hostile run-in with local gangsters, who are convinced her camera holds the first and only photos of their elusive leader. A policeman with a personal commitment to help those less fortunate finds Grace attractive and longs to help her, but Grace believes such men cannot be trusted. Spread thin between her quest to rescue her mother, do well in a new nanny job, and avoid the gang intent on intimidating her, Grace must put her faith in unlikely sources to learn the true meaning of courage and forgiveness.
| Author | : Amanda Warner |
| Publisher | : Gatekeeper Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2018-06-26 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781642370874 |
"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."
| Author | : Sudhir Alladi VENKATESH |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0674044657 |
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.
| Author | : Robert McLean |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 95 |
| Release | : 2019-11-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3030333620 |
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.
| Author | : Ted Nace |
| Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2005-09-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1576753190 |
'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.
| Author | : Casey Diaz |
| Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0785224521 |
When you feel like you've made too many missteps to go forward, how do you find the strength to carry on? Join Casey Diaz as he tells the remarkable story of God's heart for second chances. The son of El Salvadorian immigrants, Casey Diaz was brought to Los Angeles at the age of two. An abusive, impoverished family life propelled Casey into the Rockwood Street Locos gang at just eleven years old. Casey was willing to do anything to be number one, but years of chasing rival gang members led to a dramatic ambush and arrest by the LAPD. By age sixteen, Casey was sentenced to more than twelve years in solitary confinement in California's toughest prison as one of the state's most violent offenders. He thought his life was over--but as the days in solitary wore on, Casey realized someone else was calling the shots. What happened next can only be described as a miracle. Join Casey as he shares how we can all: Embrace the incredible gift of God's redeeming love Change our lives for the better Find our God-given purpose A visceral insider's look at the violent world of gangs and prison life, The Shot Caller is a remarkable demonstration of God's reckless, unending grace, and desire to reach even the worst of sinners--no matter where they are. Praise for The Shot Caller: "When I read about the life of Casey Diaz, I see so much of my own life. This is a story of a tough young man who lost his way, and of a loving God who never forgot him, no matter where he was. I know you will be inspired by Casey's story. I hope you, too, will surrender to the love of Jesus Christ." --Nicky Cruz, bestselling author of Run Baby Run
