Author: Reymundo Sanchez
Publisher: Chicago Review Pre
Keywords: king, latin, unmaking
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1556525052
ISBN-13: 9781556525056
This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez’s struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation’s most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heartpounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up in prison and provides an engrossing firsthand account of how the Latin Kings are run from insi
Author: Hudson Talbott
Publisher: HarperColli
Keywords: king, arthur, tales, wonder, books, round, table
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1995-09-27
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0688113400
ISBN-13: 9780688113407
As a lad of only sixteen years, Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and thus became High King of all Britain. But scarcely has he begun to arrange his court when twelve of the country’s lesser kings, jealous of Arthur’s glory, declare war on him.Culminating in the Battle of Bedegraine, this war is fateful in more ways than one--for not only does it secure Arthur’s place among his people, it also unites his destiny with that of Lady Guinevere.In this, the second volume of his Tales of King Arthur series, Hudson Talbott masterfully retells the saga of Arthur’s early da
Author: Deja King
Publisher: A King Productio
Keywords: production, presents, king, lavish, life, trife
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2009-02-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0975581171
ISBN-13: 9780975581179
Tierra Thompson has a chip on her shoulder and an ax to grind. She was born in the hood, and at twenty-one she has grown tired of calling it home. After hustling and being hustled by the dealers around the way, the hard truth is setting in and Tierra has to decide if she is willing to sell her soul to escape the grittiness of the streets.Nichelle Martin and Tierra have been best friends since childhood and used to be partners in crime until Nichelle lucked up and became wifey to Renaldo Renny ONeal. Renny is known in the borough of Queens, as being the man who is making all the paper. With Nic
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: legacy, king, wait
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2011-01-11
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0807001120
ISBN-13: 9780807001127
Dr. Kings best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 Often applauded as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Cant Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by Fred Shuttlesworth, King, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. King examines t
Author: Jenny Nimmo
Publisher: Orchard Book
Keywords: king, book, red, children, charlie, hidden
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0439545307
ISBN-13: 9780439545303
When Charlie turns twelve on New Year’s Eve, the Flame Cats give him a grave warning: Something ancient has awoken, and Charlie must be watchful. Soon Charlie learns that the shadow from the Red King’s portrait has been released, and that it will do anything to keep Charlie from finding his father. Meanwhile, pets are mysteriously vanishing from the city, and Olivia is in danger of revealing her newfound powers.
Author: Martin Luther King Jr.
Publisher: Beacon Pre
Keywords: king, legacy, story, montgomery, freedom, stride
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0807000698
ISBN-13: 9780807000694
Martin Luther King, Jr.s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence, who learned to fight for their rights with the weapon of love, and who, in the process, acquired a new estimate of their own human worth. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community, and shows how the twenty-eight-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transformed the nationa
Authors:Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette,
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Keywords: king, psyche, accessing, male
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1992-02
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0688095917
ISBN-13: 9780688095918
In this pioneering contribution to the emerging men’s movement, Robert Moore, a Jungian psychoanalyst who, along with Robert Bly, is a principle architect of the movement, and Douglas Gillette, a mythologist, examine the inner King--one of the four archetypes of the male psyche. 8-page color photo section; 50 black-and-white photos.
