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The Shoeshine Boy
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Author : Harrison O. Akingbade
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2002
The Shoeshine Boy written by Harrison O. Akingbade and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is about Akin Quicksilver's struggle to acquire education, which every Nigerian knows to be the surest means of ascending from poverty. With the death of his benefactor and a mediocre performance at the West African School Certificate Examinations, he knows that the only way to advance himself academically must be through his own exertion and determination. The inability to fulfill his educational ambition in Nigeria sets him out on adventure, which eventually takes him to Liberia where he has to eke out an existence by shining shoes. Through his dedication to his shoeshine business, he gets a lucky break. An Episcopal Mission in the country employs him as a utility man. In spite of suffering a series of setbacks, he obtains a scholarship to an American university and eventually wends his way to America. His strongest motivation for success is his love for Jumoke Phoenix, which is seriously threatened by his poor performance in the West African School Certificate Examinations. Jumoke is in grade one and Akin in three, with little or no chance for further advancement. The problem is further complicated by the appearance of a rival who seems to be gaining an upper hand in the competition for Jumoke's affection. Akin is determined not to give Jumoke the satisfaction of saying in future: "I m glad I left him at the time I did."
The Shoeshine Boy
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Author : Walter Reinhard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Shoeshine Boy written by Walter Reinhard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Shoe shiners categories.
The Shoe Shine Boy
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Author : Wallace Brazzeal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-01
The Shoe Shine Boy written by Wallace Brazzeal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In one brief summer a thirteen-year-old became a Texas Shoeshine Boy, creating a story to add to the family history...a springboard to link the threads together. The Houston Ice Houses played cowboy songs to lonesome folks whose shoes needed a good shine. It was a place sandwiched between a boy growing up and a country expanding beyond its borders. It was as simple as two people discovering each other and as uncharted as the heavens above. But these thoughts could only be understood later, when growing older seasons memories and makes sense from a perspective far in the future. A place where all such stories are weaved and knitted into a tapestry that can only be seen and read after a life well-lived, where tear-drops are not lost in rain, but merge with all sorrows into the oceans of humanity.
Shoeshine Boy
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Author : Charles Belim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Shoeshine Boy written by Charles Belim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with categories.
The Shoeshine Boy
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Author : David A Mucci
language : en
Publisher: Manor Books
Release Date : 2004-10-01
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The Shoeshine Boy
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Author : Melvin Sterne
language : en
Publisher: Lamar University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Shoeshine Boy written by Melvin Sterne and has been published by Lamar University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
Many lives have been altered by "spiritual experiences." Pablo, the shoeshine boy, has such an experience, one he assures the reader that they will not believe. And why should we? It's a story so outlandish that Pablo scarce believes it himself. The Shoeshine Boy is a story of individual redemption. Can Pablo, a five-year-old, illiterate orphan, survive on the streets of a hostile world? But even more, it is a novel of human redemption, contrasting the power of belief with the power of delusion, of truth with the lies we tell ourselves every day. This is a novel about faith. More broadly, it is a tale of choices. We live in a world of dwindling resources, exploding population, and technological revolution that is threatening our existence. The question becomes not whether Pablo will survive, but whether you and I will survive--and if so, how? The values we affirm and the choices we make based on our values can seal our fate as a species. Kurt Vonnegut once said that he wanted to stay as close to the edge as he could without going over. "Out on the edge," he said, "you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." His words describe The Shoeshine Boy perfectly. It will take you to the edge.
Salinko
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Author : Paul Kusi-Obuadum
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Salinko written by Paul Kusi-Obuadum and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Children's literature categories.
Shining Shoes With Dignity
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Author : Jerry Boyd Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Shining Shoes With Dignity written by Jerry Boyd Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with African American businesspeople categories.
Confessions Of A Wall Street Shoeshine Boy
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Author : Doug Stumpf
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2008-06-24
Confessions Of A Wall Street Shoeshine Boy written by Doug Stumpf and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with Fiction categories.
Brazilian-born Gil is trying to find the American Dream. In the meantime, he polishes the shoes of the superrich and powerful on Wall Street—high-rolling traders as uninhibited as they are ruthless. Gil sees things as few other people do—from the ground up—and his perspective on the day-to-day insanity of the trading floor is priceless. But this fly on the wall overhears one or two things that maybe he shouldn't. And when a Glossy magazine journalist, desperate for a big break, persuades him to be an undercover source for what may be the biggest insider trading scam in Wall Street history, Gil is catapulted into a danger zone darker than anything he or the journalist could have imagined.
Outraged
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Author : Robert J. Hoshowsky
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Outraged written by Robert J. Hoshowsky and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Murder categories.
The Murder That Changed a City The tragic story of Shoeshine Boy Emanuel Jaques has been the basis of novels, short stories, a documentary, a play, songs, a children's book on the dangers of abduction, and dozens of essays, but never a True Crime book...until now. The torture and killing of Emanuel over a 12-hour period above a seedy Toronto body rub parlour outraged citizens who demanded change to Toronto's Yonge Street strip, which by 1977 resembled New York's grimy 42nd Street with its many X-rated movie theatres, massage parlours, pornographic bookstores, and prostitutes. Through a series of original interviews, archival research, and previously unpublished documents, author Robert J. Hoshowsky recreates in detail Emanuel's brutal death, the hunt for the boy's killers, the shocking trial and press coverage, the controversial Yonge Street clean-up, and what remains one of the most sensational True Crime cases in Canadian history.