How Come? in the Neighborhood - 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 How Come? in the Neighborhood write by Kathy Wollard. This book was released on 2007-01-01. How Come? in the Neighborhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides answers to kids' questions about stuff that happens at home, in the backyard, at school, and on vacation.
In the Neighborhood
In the Neighborhood - 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 In the Neighborhood write by Peter Lovenheim. This book was released on 2010-04-06. In the Neighborhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on a popular New York Times Op-Ed piece, this is the quirky, heartfelt account of one man's quest to meet his neighbors--and find a sense of community. **As seen in Parade, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Sun-Times, and more. **Winner of the Zocalo Square Book Prize, and recently named a first selection by Action Book Club. "It's impossible to read this book without feeling the urge to knock on neighbors' doors." -Chicago Sun-Times Journalist and author Peter Lovenheim lived on the same street in suburban Rochester, NY, most of his life. But it was only after a brutal murder-suicide rocked the community that he was struck by a fact of modern life in this comfortable enclave: No one knew anyone else. Thus begins Peter's search to meet and get to know his neighbors. An inquisitive person, he does more than just introduce himself. He asks, ever so politely, if he can sleep over. In this smart, engaging, and deeply felt book, Lovenheim takes readers inside the homes, minds, and hearts of his neighbors and asks a thought-provoking question: Do neighborhoods matter--and is something lost when we live among strangers?
A Good Neighborhood
A Good Neighborhood - 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 A Good Neighborhood write by Therese Anne Fowler. This book was released on 2020-03-10. A Good Neighborhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of NPR's Best Books of 2020 "A provocative, absorbing read." — People “A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Thingsand A Spark of Light In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans—a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter—raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace. With little in common except a property line, these two families quickly find themselves at odds: first, over an historic oak tree in Valerie's yard, and soon after, the blossoming romance between their two teenagers. A Good Neighborhood asks big questions about life in America today—what does it mean to be a good neighbor? How do we live alongside each other when we don't see eye to eye?—as it explores the effects of class, race, and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful.
The World Is Always Coming to an End
The World Is Always Coming to an End - 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 World Is Always Coming to an End write by Carlo Rotella. This book was released on 2019-04-26. The World Is Always Coming to an End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a place of sociability and street life, but of privacy indoors and fearful distrust outdoors, is it still a neighborhood? In the late 1960s and 1970s Carlo Rotella grew up in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood—a place of neat bungalow blocks and desolate commercial strips, and sharp, sometimes painful social contrasts. In the decades since, the hollowing out of the middle class has left residents confronting—or avoiding—each other across an expanding gap that makes it ever harder for them to recognize each other as neighbors. Rotella tells the stories that reveal how that happened—stories of deindustrialization and street life; stories of gorgeous apartments with vistas onto Lake Michigan and of Section 8 housing vouchers held by the poor. At every turn, South Shore is a study in contrasts, shaped and reshaped over the past half-century by individual stories and larger waves of change that make it an exemplar of many American urban neighborhoods. Talking with current and former residents and looking carefully at the interactions of race and class, persistence and change, Rotella explores the tension between residents’ deep investment of feeling and resources in the physical landscape of South Shore and their hesitation to make a similar commitment to the community of neighbors living there. Blending journalism, memoir, and archival research, The World Is Always Coming to an End uses the story of one American neighborhood to challenge our assumptions about what neighborhoods are, and to think anew about what they might be if we can bridge gaps and commit anew to the people who share them with us. Tomorrow is another ending.
People From My Neighbourhood
People From My Neighbourhood - 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 People From My Neighbourhood write by Hiromi Kawakami. This book was released on 2020-08-06. People From My Neighbourhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
