One Of The Family

Author : John Pearson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446457311
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Of The Family written by John Pearson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _____________________________ At Ronnie Kray's funeral, London crime expert John Pearson saw a man he didn't recognise - but who all the notorious criminals present deferred to. This is the remarkable true story of that man: 'the Englishman'. Investigations revealed that the Englishman was never mentioned in any of the previous books on organised crime, not because he wasn't involved, but because everyone was too scared to speak his name. Moreover, he was as legendary a figure on the streets of New York as on the streets of London. Pearson persuaded the mysterious criminal leader to talk to him - and the result was a story even more extraordinary than that of the Kray twins. Here Pearson reveals the true story of the Englishman who became the adopted son of Joey Pagano, the head of one of the major New York crime families. Here the Englishman tells the story that no-one else dared to tell. _____________________________ John Pearson's The Profession of Violence created the myth of the Kray twins, and remains a classic of true crime and the principal work on East London criminals.

Author : George Shannon
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466894032
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Family written by George Shannon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family. From veteran picture book author George Shannon and up-and-coming artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.

Author : Alice Childress
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050741
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Like One of the Family written by Alice Childress and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by Entertainment Weekly The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers—from a trailblazer in Black women’s literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers’ complacency and condescension—and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange dignity for pay. Upon publication the book sparked a critique of working conditions, laying the groundwork for the contemporary domestic worker movement. Although she was critically praised, Childress’s uncompromising politics and unflinching depictions of racism, classism, and sexism relegated her to the fringe of American literature. Like One of the Family has been long overlooked, but this new edition, featuring a foreword by best-selling author Roxane Gay, will introduce Childress to a new generation.

Author : Marc Harshman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802853889
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Big Family written by Marc Harshman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family reunion brings surprises, laughter, adventures and love.

Author : Donovan Webster
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426206046
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Family written by Donovan Webster and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donovan Webster brings his vivid journalistic gifts to a new subject, tracing our deep genealogy using cutting-edge DNA research to map our eons-old journey from prehistoric Africa into the modern world. With the same genetic haplotype as many white American males, Webster makes an ideal subject—he is a genuine Everyman. While his voice and spirit are unique to him, in exploring his own ancestry, he shows us our own. Drawing on National Geographic’s Genographic Project, the largest anthropologic DNA study of its kind, Webster traces centuries of migrations, everywhere finding members of his now far-flung genetic family. In Tanzania’s Rift Valley, he hunts with Julius, whose tribe speaks a click language, and wanders the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia with Mohamed and Khalid, now Jordanian citizens. In Samarkand, Uzbekistan, eastern frontier of his ancestral roaming, a circus ringmaster becomes both friend and link to his primal bloodline. Webster’s genographic quest leads him to contemplate what traits he shares with those he meets, and considers what they and their ways of life reveal about the deep history of our species. A lifetime of journalistic travels among a wide range of cultures furnish Webster with a wealth of colorful threads to weave into a story as particularly personal as it is universally human.

Author : Nicky Campbell
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1529304261
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of the Family written by Nicky Campbell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable autobiography' Andrew Billen, The Times 'You're struck by his raw honesty in tackling big issues head-on' Tom Bryant, Daily Mirror 'So full of heart' Davina McCall 'I was riveted by it in a heartbreaking way . . . you will be gripped' Ranvir Singh, Lorraine 'So moving . . . it's a beautiful book' Zoe Ball 'Commendable honesty . . . a poignant book about the search for belonging' Daily Express 'Remarkable . . . contains a lesson for all of us and delivers a resounding message of hope and of love' James O'Brien ************* The brave and moving memoir by Long Lost Family presenter and Radio 5 breakfast show host Nicky Campbell reveals how the simple unconditional love of Maxwell, his Labrador, turned his life around and helped him come to terms with his difficult journey as an adopted child. Raw, honest and courageous in One of the Family, Nicky opens up about how being adopted has made him always feel like an outsider; the guilt he has carried towards his Mum and Dad for needing to trace his birth mother, and the crushing disappointment he felt when he finally met her. And for the first time, he writes about his emotional breakdown and how he has learned to live with a late diagnosis of bipolar. Through it all his passion for dogs and animals has been a lifeline. It is Maxwell's magic, a lesson from a Labrador in simple unconditional friendship, that has allowed him to see all the good in his life: from the security and safety of his childhood home, the love of his wife and four daughters and above all, to better understand the decisions taken by his birth mother to give him up for adoption.

Author : Pam Ryan
Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN 13 : 9780786804054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred is a Family Board Book written by Pam Ryan and published by Hyperion Books for Children. This book was released on 1998-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groups making up many different kinds of "families" introduce the numbers from one to ten and then by tens to one hundred. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Tina Toole Truelove
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820321998
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Family written by Tina Toole Truelove and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One afternoon in the fall of 1979 photographer Vaughn Sills set out from Athens, Georgia, with a load of camera equipment, a tape recorder, and a caring spirit, seeking a family in a setting that would “call” to her. Running across a settlement of simple frame houses “that seemed to belong” on a country road near town, Sills parked her truck, walked in unannounced, and commenced a twenty-year collaboration with the extended Toole clan that One Family so lovingly documents. From the thousands of images taken over the years on their front porches and in their homes and yards, Sills has selected 143 portraits documenting the daily lives of four generations of this large southern family and combined them with interviews, correspondence, and the heartfelt poems of Tina Toole Truelove. The resulting book is an artful mix of vivid images richly contextualized by Sills’s own passionately held cultural and artistic values. One Family captures the essence, the individuality, and the mystery of this vital extended family in today’s rural South.

Author : Wendy W. Fairey
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393030938
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One of the Family written by Wendy W. Fairey and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She also looks back on her experience of several fathers: the dour Trevor Westbrook; the charming, intellectual Freddie Ayer; a disastrous stepfather known as Bow Wow; and no less important than these, though an acknowledged ghost, the man Sheilah Graham offered to her children as their spiritual father, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Author : Bob Graham
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780763614003
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queenie, One of the Family written by Bob Graham and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caitlin and her parents rescue a hen from a lake, name her, and take her home with them, but even after they return her to the farm where she lives, her presence is still felt in Caitlin's family.