Cast A Long Shadow

Author : Wayne D. Overholser
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645408566
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast a Long Shadow written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Spur Award Winning Author Wayne D. Overholser “STAY ON THE SIDE OF THE BIG MEN." That was what Pat Keenan told his son as he lay dying, and young Matt Keenan vowed to follow his father's advice. But when he returned to his boyhood home in New Mexico, he ran into a hail of bullets fired by the company he had hoped to work for and local settlers the company wanted to evict. Caught in the cross fire, Keenan had to decide which meant more: a promise to a dead man, or the lives of hun­dreds of men and women who would rather die than lose their land. A Classic Western Adventure by WAYNE D. OVERHOLSER Winner of the Western Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award

Author : Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Publisher : One World/Ballantine
ISBN 13 : 0525509062
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Cast a Shadow written by Maurice Carlos Ruffin and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2019 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition ofRalph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love"--

Author : Jim Annison
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291971602
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast a Long Shadow written by Jim Annison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-03 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been fifteen years since Adam Carnell's wife died, killed by one of the ghosts that haunted Mosscroft House. It has been five years since he returned there to face his demons. Now living in Bristol with his new wife, Jenny, Adam is, finally, beginning to put the past behind him until a long forgotten evil puts that which he loves most in danger. Only then does he realise past events can cast a long shadow over the present.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffrey
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 0349406863
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast A Long Shadow written by Elizabeth Jeffrey and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts her aunts, and is thrilled when they invite her to stay with them in Sheffield. But while Dale House might look grand from the outside, on closer inspection, the place is run-down and crumbling. Poppy determines to change all this and applies for a job at the local scythe works - to the horror of her aunts. As Poppy learns to survive, she is tormented by many unanswered questions. Why had her father rejected Dale House? Why had he never mentioned his sisters or the past? And what could have happened between her aunts and Frederick Kenton, her new boss, that could cause them so much anguish every time his name, or the scythe works, is mentioned?

Author : R. Wayne Tanner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426936966
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casting a Long Shadow written by R. Wayne Tanner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is but a glimpse at that struggle and how it not only impacted men and their families but a way of life that can still be seen in many parts of Florida if one is willing to take time and look. Cowboys still saddle their horses and drive to an old set of cow pens and spend many an hour atop their favorite horse gathering, working and selling a new calf crop. They string miles of barbed wire and drive thousands of staples in fence rows built by their grandfathers and great grandfathers. To many, thou, it is lost and only a fading dream. Deep in the soul of Florida lies a great heritage called the True Florida Cracker. Not the urbanized rednecks that can afford a pair of Wrangler jeans, a shiny belt buckle, a fancy felt hat and black pointed toed cowboy boots but the true country boy and girl. Those who know the reason why you carry a pocket knife, how to keep it sharp and not cut yourself. Those who can appreciate a good pot of collard greens without the sweet cornbread you buy in a box. Those who are not afraid of taking a firm hold on a catfish as it flops around and taking out the hook without getting stuck. To those who had actually stepped into a fresh pile of cow crap and knows what it smells like and in a way appreciates the experience. To those who were taught to say yes mam and no sir and remember what respect is. To those who say to themselves that they were born in the wrong time.

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0857206389
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow written by David Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In TheLong Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States,TheLong Shadowthrows light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadowis a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.

Author : Mary E. Pearce
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780316909488
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cast a Long Shadow written by Mary E. Pearce and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ellen Wainwright marries Richard Lancey in July 1873, the day is so hot that the church doors are left wide open and towards the end of the ceremony, a stray dog runs in and stands howling in the central aisle. Later people would remember the dog as an ill omen.

Author : Laura Tillman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501104306
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts written by Laura Tillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family’s neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is “a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime…a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville” Star Tribune (Minneapolis). The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age’s most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. “This thought-provoking…book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Author : Karl Alexander
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448235
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Shadow written by Karl Alexander and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in the American Sociological Association's Rose Series in Sociology West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential “inner city”—gritty, run-down, and marred by drugs and gang violence. Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress. But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual “urban underclass” depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore’s inner city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early-life opportunities available to low-income populations. The Long Shadow focuses on children who grew up in west Baltimore neighborhoods and others like them throughout the city, tracing how their early lives in the inner city have affected their long-term well-being. Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities. The experience of Baltimore’s children who came of age during this era is mirrored in the experiences of urban children across the nation. For 25 years, the authors of The Long Shadow tracked the life progress of a group of almost 800 predominantly low-income Baltimore school children through the Beginning School Study Youth Panel (BSSYP). The study monitored the children’s transitions to young adulthood with special attention to how opportunities available to them as early as first grade shaped their socioeconomic status as adults. The authors’ fine-grained analysis confirms that the children who lived in more cohesive neighborhoods, had stronger families, and attended better schools tended to maintain a higher economic status later in life. As young adults, they held higher-income jobs and had achieved more personal milestones (such as marriage) than their lower-status counterparts. Differences in race and gender further stratified life opportunities for the Baltimore children. As one of the first studies to closely examine the outcomes of inner-city whites in addition to African Americans, data from the BSSYP shows that by adulthood, white men of lower status family background, despite attaining less education on average, were more likely to be employed than any other group in part due to family connections and long-standing racial biases in Baltimore’s industrial economy. Gender imbalances were also evident: the women, who were more likely to be working in low-wage service and clerical jobs, earned less than men. African American women were doubly disadvantaged insofar as they were less likely to be in a stable relationship than white women, and therefore less likely to benefit from a second income. Combining original interviews with Baltimore families, teachers, and other community members with the empirical data gathered from the authors’ groundbreaking research, The Long Shadow unravels the complex connections between socioeconomic origins and socioeconomic destinations to reveal a startling and much-needed examination of who succeeds and why.

Author : Rachel S. Harris
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253056403
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Casting a Giant Shadow written by Rachel S. Harris and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film came to the territory that eventually became Israel not long after the medium was born. Casting a Giant Shadow is a collection of articles that embraces the notion of transnationalism to consider the limits of what is "Israeli" within Israeli cinema. As the State of Israel developed, so did its film industries. Moving beyond the early films of the Yishuv, which focused on the creation of national identity, the industry and its transnational ties became more important as filmmakers and film stars migrated out and foreign films, filmmakers, and actors came to Israel to take advantage of high-quality production values and talent. This volume, edited by Rachel Harris and Dan Chyutin, uses the idea of transnationalism to challenge the concept of a singular definition of Israeli cinema. Casting a Giant Shadow offers a new understanding of how cinema has operated artistically and structurally in terms of funding, distribution, and reception. The result is a thorough investigation of the complex structure of the transnational and its impact on national specificity when considered on the global stage.