In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts
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In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts
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Author : Neil White
language : en
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date : 2016-06-13
In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts written by Neil White and has been published by William Morrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Following conviction for bank fraud, White spent a year in a minimum-security prison in Carville, Louisiana, housed in the last leper colony in mainland America. His fascinating memoir reflects on the sizable group of lepers living alongside the prisoners.--"Publishers Weekly."
In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts
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Author : Neil White
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-06-02
In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts written by Neil White and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place--imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S. 30 color photos.
In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts
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Author : Neil White
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-05-28
In The Sanctuary Of Outcasts written by Neil White and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil The emotional, incredible true story of Neil White, a man who discovers the secret to happiness, leading a fulfilling life, and the importance of fatherhood in the most unlikely of places—the last leper colony in the continental United States. In the words of Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain), White is “a splendid writer,” and In the Sanctuary of Outcasts “a book that will endure.”
Outcasts United
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Author : Warren St. John
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-21
Outcasts United written by Warren St. John and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-21 with Social Science categories.
BONUS: This edition contains a reader's guide. The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’ s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees. Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives—and the lives of their families—in the face of a series of daunting challenges. This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.
Highland Sanctuary
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Author : Jennifer Hudson Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Release Date : 2011
Highland Sanctuary written by Jennifer Hudson Taylor and has been published by Abingdon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
Taylor's "Highland Sanctuary" is the story of a chieftain heir who is hired to restore the ancient Castle of Braigh.
Carville
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Author : Marcia G. Gaudet
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2004-12-02
Carville written by Marcia G. Gaudet and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Personal accounts of life in America's last colony for sufferers of Hansen's disease
Carville S Cure Leprosy Stigma And The Fight For Justice
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Author : Pam Fessler
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Carville S Cure Leprosy Stigma And The Fight For Justice written by Pam Fessler and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with History categories.
The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiled—hidden away with their “shameful” disease. The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America’s most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where generations of afflicted Americans were isolated—often against their will and until their deaths. Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen’s disease, the modern name for leprosy. Amid widespread public anxiety about foreign contamination and contagion, patients were deprived of basic rights—denied the right to vote, restricted from leaving Carville, and often forbidden from contact with their own parents or children. Neighbors fretted over their presence and newspapers warned of their dangerous condition, which was seen as a biblical “curse” rather than a medical diagnosis. Though shunned by their fellow Americans, patients surprisingly made Carville more a refuge than a prison. Many carved out meaningful lives, building a vibrant community and finding solace, brotherhood, and even love behind the barbed-wire fence that surrounded them. Among the memorable figures we meet in Fessler’s masterful narrative are John Early, a pioneering crusader for patients’ rights, and the unlucky Landry siblings—all five of whom eventually called Carville home—as well as a butcher from New York, a 19-year-old debutante from New Orleans, and a pharmacist from Texas who became the voice of Carville around the world. Though Jim Crow reigned in the South and racial animus prevailed elsewhere, Carville took in people of all faiths, colors, and backgrounds. Aided by their heroic caretakers, patients rallied to find a cure for Hansen’s disease and to fight the insidious stigma that surrounded it. Weaving together a wealth of archival material with original interviews as well as firsthand accounts from her own family, Fessler has created an enthralling account of a lost American history. In our new age of infectious disease, Carville’s Cure demonstrates the necessity of combating misinformation and stigma if we hope to control the spread of illness without demonizing victims and needlessly destroying lives.
Barbarous
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Author : Minerva Spencer
language : en
Publisher: Zebra Books
Release Date : 2018-10-30
Barbarous written by Minerva Spencer and has been published by Zebra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-30 with Fiction categories.
A thrilling Regency romance from the author of Dangerous. “Spencer shines in her sophomore effort, burnishing her reputation as an author to watch.”—Kirkus Reviews He could be her ruin Hugh Redvers is supposed to be dead. So the appearance of the sun-bronzed giant with the piratical black eye patch is deeply disturbing to Lady Daphne Davenport. And her instant attraction to the notorious privateer is not only wildly inappropriate for a proper widow but potentially disastrous. Because he is also the man Daphne has secretly cheated of title, lands, and fortune. She could be his salvation Daphne’s distant, untouchable beauty and eminently touchable body are hard enough to resist. But the prim, almost severe, way she looks at him suggests this might be the one woman who can make him forget all the others. His only challenge? Unearthing the enemy who threatens her life . . . and uncovering the secrets in her cool blue eyes. Praise for Dangerous “Minerva Spencer’s writing is sophisticated and wickedly witty. Dangerous is a delight from start to finish with swashbuckling action, scorching love scenes, and a coolly arrogant hero to die for.”—Elizabeth Hoyt, New York Times bestselling author “Readers will love this lusty and unusual marriage of convenience story.”—Madeline Hunter, New York Times bestselling author “Smart, witty, graceful, sensual, elegant and gritty all at once. It has all of the meticulous attention to detail I love in Georgette Heyer, BUT WITH SEX!”—Jeffe Kennedy, RITA Award-winning author
My Thinning Years
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Author : Jon Derek Croteau
language : en
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-30
My Thinning Years written by Jon Derek Croteau and has been published by Hazelden Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-30 with Self-Help categories.
The author tells the story of growing up denying his homosexuality in order to earn the love of his abusive father and how he eventually faced his sexual identity and began sorting through years of repressed anger.
Thieves World
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Author : Joe Haldeman
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Thieves World written by Joe Haldeman and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with Fiction categories.
Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to “be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again” (Book Riot). A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves’ World® paved the way for the shared-world anthology tradition with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action thanks to the legendary authors who contribute to it. The series’s groundbreaking debut features stories by John Brunner, Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Andrew J. Offutt, Robert Lynn Asprin, Joe Haldeman, Christine DeWees, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, who populate the lawless city of Sanctuary with orphans and wizards, fortune tellers and emperors, merchants and madams, spies, assassins, and, of course, thieves. “Sanctuary was the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures.” —Black Gate “A bold and daring experiment in fantasy storytelling . . . We are introduced to the cast of characters, including beggars and crime lords, wizards and soldiers, minstrels and thieves, as this new chapter in the life of Sanctuary begins, life under the governorship of Prince Kadakithis.” —Fantasy-Faction