Biography For Boys

Driven by his single mother's dreams for his survival and success, Kevin Powell became the first in his family to attend a university, where he became a student leader keenly aware of widespread social injustice. But the struggle to define himself and break out of poverty continued into adulthood, with traumatic periods of homelessness and despair. As a young star journalist with Vibe magazine, Powell interviewed luminaries such as Tupac Shakur, writing influential chronicles of the evolution of hip-hop from his eyewitness view.

A two-week vacation to the Florida Keys meant Mary and Jameson Sr. could share the beauty of their favorite turquoise-blue waters with their four children. On that serene day at Looe Key Reef, after they finished lunch on the boat, their oldest, ten-year-old Jameson Jr., was swimming among the marine life, capturing breathtaking footage of a sea turtle. Until a massive bull shark attacked.

Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam.

Daniel vive a Quarto Oggiaro, periferia di Milano. In famiglia il clima è teso, pochi soldi e continui litigi. Cresce nei cortili delle case popolari, ama il calcio e in campo è il più forte, tanto che a dieci anni gioca con la maglia dell’Inter. Le aspettative su di lui sono altissime, e non vuole deluderle. Ma quando, durante una partita, Daniel manca il goal decisivo, il sogno di diventare un calciatore famoso è infranto per sempre. Alle medie Daniel è un bullo temuto da tutti, carico di rabbia e aggressività.

"Rockin" Rick Bell was born to an unwed mother and placed in a chaotic, alcoholic home by the Catholic Church. By the time he was old enough to serve as an altar boy, Rick had become an atheist, believing God was no different than Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.

Los villanos, monstruos y almas perdidas que desfilan por estas páginas harán que la aguja de nuestro medidor imaginario de bondad y maldad oscile de blanco a negro.

This book is not for those with weak stomachs or who may be squeamish. If you are prone to nightmares, give this book a miss. The author describes horrific motorcycle crashes, near death situations with helicopters and some cameo descriptions of life in a Game Reserve including the humorous day of the Mpundu, when drunk monkeys fall out of a tree. This is better than the first part and will hold your attention to the last tragic chapter, laugh with the author, cry with him and feel what he felt.

For nine-year-old Mickey, the early '50s were not the Ozzie and Harriet fantasy of love and security. Instead, they were years of abandonment, unimaginable cruelty, and virtual slavery. This memoir reveals Mickey's devastating experiences of being handed off from one abusive person to another...all in the name of survival.

Christopher Fowler's memoir captures life in suburban London as it has rarely been seen: through the eyes of a lonely boy who spends his days between the library and the cinema, devouring novels, comics, and cereal packets - anything that might reveal a story. Caught between an ever-sensible but exhausted mother and a DIY-obsessed father fighting his own demons, Christopher takes refuge in words.

Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962 - a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born. In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country.

Brodie's come to Cotton Creek simply because he has a lot of leave time, and the new training facility that was built in the same county is about to have a two-hundred foot climbing tower. There's little Brodie likes more than free-climbing, and he's agreed to train a new batch of recruits. It'll give him some downtime to maybe work on an engine, visit with friends, and if lucky, find a pretty lady to enjoy some time with. What he never counted on was being thrust into the middle of a tantalizing and sexy mystery.

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The joy is in the journey! We all have our own journey in life with ups and downs. Sometimes it feels like things will never go our way, yet if we are bold enough to face our fears, learn from our failures and heal from our pain, then we can find the overflowing joy. This story is about my journey, which has led me to the realization that yes, the joy is in the journey.

In this series of stories, you will encounter attractive actors, stunning fashion models, handsome artists, a suave British aristocrat, the activist and founder of a London gay paper, and a charismatic and very persistent millionaire. Also there are some really fantastic kissers! I mean exceptionally good!

Line Rider is the true story of the life of Joseph Harrison Pearce (1873-1958), written by his own hand. During his lifetime, the “wild west” from the storybooks still lived and breathed in one of the last places to be modernized—Arizona.

A las puertas del centenario, la biografía definitiva de B.B. King, considerado -y por muchos llamado- Rey (de reyes) del Blues. He aquí la más vibrante y completa semblanza del que fuera gran pionero y el último en partir de toda una generación de profetas del blues. Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015), más conocido como B.B. King, nació en la más absoluta pobreza en el corazón del Misisipi afroamericano subyugado por la América de Jim Crow.

The future leader of Singapore spent his growing up years doing what other children did in the 1920s. Harry liked to play with spinning tops, marbles, kites—and even fighting fish! While he was a little mischievous as a child, Harry worked hard in school to achieve academic success, eventually winning scholarships to attend the prestigious Raffles College.

『내가 만난 소년에 대하여』는 '소년범의 대부' 천종호 판사가 그동안 펴낸 책에서 독자의 공감을 크게 받은 글을 추려 펴낸 특별판이다. 청소년부터 어른까지 쉽게 읽을 수 있도록 문장을 전부 다듬고 내용을 풍성하게 보완하였다.

A poignant, true-survival story of a young boy who hid for years underground in Holland during World War II. A Boy In Hiding sheds a light on the difficult road that laid ahead for Anne Frank – had she survived. Now, 60 years later, Rubens gives a voice to the young boy, who – despite the hard time and difficulties he encountered, never lost his positive view on life.

At the onset of World War II, nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in concentration camps. Shigeru Yabu, a young boy from San Francisco, was forced from his home and moved, with his family, to the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming. A Boy of Heart Mountain is a poignant coming-of-age story about how one 10-year-old Japanese American boy named Shig tried to make sense out of being imprisoned for several years on the prairie.