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Author: Laura Lee P. Huttenbach Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0896804887 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 331
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A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp tie, and freshly polished shoes. For most of the last four decades, however, he dressed for work in the primary school classroom and on his lush tea farm. The General, as he came to be called from his leadership of the Mau Mau uprising sixty years ago, narrates his life story in conversation with Laura Lee Huttenbach, a young American who met him while backpacking in Kenya in 2006. A gifted storyteller with a keen appreciation for language and a sense of responsibility as a repository of his people’s history, the General talks of his childhood in the voice of a young boy, his fight against the British in the voice of a soldier, and his long life in the voice of shrewd elder. While his life experiences are his alone, his story adds immeasurably to the long history of decolonization as it played out across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Author: Laura Lee P. Huttenbach Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: 0896804887 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations. Born into an impoverished farm family in the Meru Highlands, Japhlet Thambu grew up wearing goatskins and lived to stand before his community dressed for business in a pressed suit, crisp tie, and freshly polished shoes. For most of the last four decades, however, he dressed for work in the primary school classroom and on his lush tea farm. The General, as he came to be called from his leadership of the Mau Mau uprising sixty years ago, narrates his life story in conversation with Laura Lee Huttenbach, a young American who met him while backpacking in Kenya in 2006. A gifted storyteller with a keen appreciation for language and a sense of responsibility as a repository of his people’s history, the General talks of his childhood in the voice of a young boy, his fight against the British in the voice of a soldier, and his long life in the voice of shrewd elder. While his life experiences are his alone, his story adds immeasurably to the long history of decolonization as it played out across Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Author: Gregory Gibson Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 9780385720045 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 0
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"A father's search for the truth in his son's murder. ... a murderous and cunning inquiry into guns, violence, and manhood in America."--Jacket.
Author: Biz Publisher: Xlibris US ISBN: 150354608X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 183
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This book is the first of five about growing up in Oakland California and in the swamps in New Orleans in the mid seventies and eighties. It is loosely based on my experiences and the things I witnessed as a child and later as a man. Ghetto life is real, Murder for profit, Drug Dealers, Pimps , Murder for hire, Sex, Drug Addiction, mine and others; Child Molestation, Illegal Dog fights, Gambling, Prostitution and my ultimate incarceration. A little bit of everything. With permission from the streets given, there will be many more stories depicting life on the streets from the people who lived it and died for it. Im writing from prison and trying to get a publishing deal. Its past time for a REAL Bay Area writer from the REAL streets to tell it like it is.
Author: J A Baker Publisher: Boldwood Books Ltd ISBN: 1835612296 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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Pre-order the next gripping psych thriller from bestselling author J A Baker Every parent's worst nightmare... When five-year-old Leo disappears after leaving school, it sets a chain of events in motion that will change the lives of the local residents forever. Ashton committed a terrible crime as a child, but he’s determined to put the past behind him and build a new life for himself – where no one knows his dark secrets. But Lynda, a stern secondary school teacher, recognises the troubled boy from all those years ago, bringing him the unwelcome attention he fears. Sarah, a bored housewife and vicious gossip, hears about Ashton’s past and convinces herself he is responsible for Leo’s disappearance. And meanwhile Leo remains missing. Gone without a trace... But just who took Leo and why? And will he be found before it’s too late? Please note: This book is re-issue of Looking For Leo by J A Baker Readers LOVE JA Baker! 'Engaging characters, a chilling tale - Baker at her best!' Bestselling author Valerie Keogh 'A dark and twisting thrill ride that asks the question: how well do you really know your parents? It kept me hooked until the final page!' Bestselling author M.A. Hunter 'A dark and twisty thriller that keep you guessing at the truth, The Perfect Parents is an addictive read!' Bestselling author Alison Stockham 'This captivating pacy thriller sucks you in from the first page and spits you out at the last!' Bestselling author Ruby Speechley
Author: Mary Lou McDonald Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098004426 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 89
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A nurse takes her young patient for a walk early one morning and has a heart attack. A child abduction ring has been trolling the area and finds the small boy crying in his stroller. They grab him. He is just what they have been looking for. He is blond, blue-eyed, and young. Only he is a lot more than they bargained for. The child is very ill. The woman chosen by the ring to take care of the child falls in love with him, and she kidnaps the child from the abductors. The child's family is looking for him. A task force is set up. The abduction ring is desperately searching for the child. Hopefully, before he becomes seriously ill, or worse, and this toddler will be safely returned to his family
Author: Ishmael Beah Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374105235 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 238
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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he’d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
Author: Christina Henry Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399584021 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 306
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From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook—a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is… There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan’s first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter's idea of fun is sharper than a pirate’s sword. Because it’s never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbors are pirates and monsters. Our toys are knife and stick and rock—the kinds of playthings that bite. Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever. Peter lies.
Author: Theodore Rosengarten Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525562850 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 610
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Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of forty-seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbor's crop. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty-four-year-old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain-spoken story of an “over-average” man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people—and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about.
Author: Laura Lee P. Huttenbach
Author: Laura Lee P. Huttenbach
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