Ballad of the Bullet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ballad of the Bullet write by Forrest Stuart. This book was released on 2021-05-04. Ballad of the Bullet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork and over 150 interviews with gang-affiliated youth in the "Taylor Park" neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Ballad of the Bullet reveals that those coming of age in America's poorest neighborhoods are developing new, creative, and online strategies for making ends meet. Dislocated by the erosion of the crack economy and the splintering of corporatized gangs, these young people exploit the unique affordances of digital social media to capitalize on an emerging online market for urban violence (or, more accurately, a market for the representation of urban violence). In the past, violence functioned primarily as a means of social control, allowing urban youth to compete in illegal street markets and defend the social statuses otherwise denied to them by mainstream society. Today, with the rise of platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter, violence has become a premier cultural commodity in and of itself. By amassing millions of clicks, views, and followers, these young people convert their online displays of violence into vital offline resources, including cash, housing, drugs, sex, and, for a very select few, a ticket out of poverty" --
Bulletproof Vest
Bulletproof Vest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bulletproof Vest write by Maria Venegas. This book was released on 2014-06-17. Bulletproof Vest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve"--Amazon.com.
The Ballad of Frankie Silver
The Ballad of Frankie Silver - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ballad of Frankie Silver write by Sharyn McCrumb. This book was released on 2013-03-26. The Ballad of Frankie Silver available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times Bestseller Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered one of McCrumb's crowning achievements. In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convicted of murder in Burke County, North Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged. Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins to discover that the convictions of these two women have deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie's fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman. In a voice that could only be Sharyn McCrumb's, the worlds of these two murders, these two women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical novel—and characters, generations, and history are breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) write by Suzanne Collins. This book was released on 2020-05-19. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
Wild Orchid
Wild Orchid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Orchid write by Cameron Dokey. This book was released on 2010-01-19. Wild Orchid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Once upon a Time" Is Timeless Wielding a sword as deftly as an embroidery needle, Mulan is unlike any other girl in China. When the emperor summons a great army, each family must send a male to fight. Tomboyish Mulan is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family honor, so she disguises herself and answers the call. But Mulan never expects to find a friend, let alone a soul mate, in the commander of her division, Prince Jian. For all of Mulan's courage with a bow and arrow, is she brave enough to share her true identity and feelings with Prince Jian?
