Something Like Hope - 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 Something Like Hope write by Shawn Goodman. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Something Like Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen-year-old Shavonne has been in juvenile detention since the seventh grade. Mr. Delpopolo is the first counselor to treat her as an equal, and he helps her get to the bottom of her self-destructive behavior, her guilt about past actions, and her fears about leaving the Center when she turns eighteen. Shavonne tells him the truth about her crack-addicted mother, the child she had (and gave up to foster care) at fifteen, and the secret shame she feels about what she did to her younger brother after her mother abandoned them. Meanwhile, Shavonne's mentally unstable roommate Cinda makes a rash move, and Shavonne's quick thinking saves her life—and gives her the opportunity to get out of the Center if she behaves well. But Shavonne's faith is tested when her new roommate, mentally retarded and pregnant Mary, is targeted by a guard as a means to get revenge on Shavonne. As freedom begins to look more and more likely, Shavonne begins to believe that maybe she, like the goslings recently hatched on the Center's property, could have a future somewhere else—and she begins to feel something like hope. This is a brutally honest but hopeful story of finding yourself and moving beyond your past.
Something Like Hope & Other Stories
Something Like Hope & Other Stories - 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 Something Like Hope & Other Stories write by William Cass. This book was released on 2021. Something Like Hope & Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The characters in William Cass's moving first collection of stories are loving people, emotionally observant and internally responsive to the world around them. Even when isolated, Cass's men and women know the value of connection and hope.
Hope in the Dark
Hope in the Dark - 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 Hope in the Dark write by Rebecca Solnit. This book was released on 2016-05-14. Hope in the Dark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Something Like Gravity
Something Like Gravity - 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 Something Like Gravity write by Amber Smith. This book was released on 2023-11-21. Something Like Gravity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After coming out as transgender, Chris is still processing a frightening assault he survived the year before, while Maia, grieving the loss of her older sister, is trying to find her place in the world, which makes falling in love the furthest thing on their minds--until it is not.
A Little Life
A Little Life - 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 Little Life write by Hanya Yanagihara. This book was released on 2016-01-26. A Little Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
