“This is the true amazing story of Kaptain Bek’s journey through Life. An avid comic book reader with a high school diploma, Kaptain has been working numerous menial jobs during the past thirty years, struggling into supporting himself and at times his mother, Mama Louise. Despite brief periods of a few ups (becoming baptized) and longer periods of many downs (verbal confrontations with his father, Daddy Bek), Kaptain has maintain a positive enlighten for human life itself, attempting to achieve his primary goal...becoming a successful screenplay writer.

The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues—war, development, and youth—in new ways. The starting point is the following irony: while African youth are demographically dominant, most see themselves as members of an outcast minority. The irony directly informs young people’s lives in war-affected Africa, where differences separating the priorities of youth and those of international agencies are especially prominent. Drawing on interviews with development experts and young people, Marc Sommers shines a light on this gap and offers guidance on how to close it. He begins with a comprehensive consideration of forces that shape and propel the lives of African youth today, particularly those experiencing or emerging from war. They are contrasted with forces that influence and constrain the international development aid enterprise. The book concludes with a framework for making development policies and practices significantly more relevant and effective for youth in areas affected by African wars and other places where vast and vibrant youth populations reside.

Reproduction of the original: An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events. “Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded women who came seeking a second chance and a sustaining hope.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth’s red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and “ruined” girls without forcibly separating mothers from children. When Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet there—one sick and abused, but desperately clinging to her young daughter, the other jilted by the beau who fathered her ailing son—they form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths. A century later, Cate Sutton, a reclusive university librarian, uncovers the hidden histories of the two troubled women as she stumbles upon the cemetery on the home’s former grounds and begins to comb through its archives in her library. Pulled by an indescribable connection, what Cate discovers about their stories leads her to confront her own heartbreaking past, and to reclaim the life she thought she'd let go forever. With great pathos and powerful emotional resonance, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls explores the dark roads that lead us to ruin, and the paths we take to return to ourselves.

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.

"It's Ok" The Power of Being An Outcast is a book for people struggling to recognize the power they possess. You see, most outcasts believe the problem is them. They wonder why people are so distant from them. They wonder if they should change the way they are to fit in. They wonder if they should conform to the standards of society. They don't see the power it holds.As an outcast myself, I know first hand what's it like to not fit in. As a kid, I tried almost everything I could to fit in. Nothing worked. I almost gave up hope. I fought battles of depression for a long time because of it. I didn't realize that the thing I hated the most would be my biggest strength until I was older.If you know someone struggling with depression, struggling with there identity, or struggling with being an outcast. Please get them this book and see if it changes there life. If you approach рrоblеmѕ thrоugh уоur оwn unique lens аnd ѕtау truе tо уоur integrity аnd intuition, сrеаtivе 'оut оf thе bоx' solutions tо рrоblеmѕ саn be unсоvеrеd. Don't be аfrаid tо speak uр frоm уоur оwn uniԛuе viеwроint. It may juѕt be thе ѕоlutiоn thаt the others hаvе nоt уеt ѕееn. Have уоu noticed hоw intеrеѕting people аrе whеn they are diffеrеnt and аrе comfortable in embracing thеir uniԛuеnеѕѕ? Other people аrе nаturаllу drawn to them аnd thеir аuthеntiсitу. Thеу hаvе frеѕh idеаѕ, perspectives, and еxреriеnсеѕ thаt mаkе thеm mоrе intеrеѕting аnd they аrе nоt afraid to ѕhаrе thеm. It саn feel likе a rеаllу hard rоаd when уоu think аnd асt diffеrеntlу thаn the current wiѕdоm. Hаvе thе соurаgе tо ѕtау true tо уоurѕеlf, уоur viѕiоn аnd уоur vаluеѕ. It's thе оnlу wау tо truе ѕuссеѕѕ аnd happiness.

A mesmerizing portrait of 1950s hypocrisy and unexpected love, from a powerful new voice It is 1957, and Lewis Aldridge, straight out of prison, is journeying back to his home in Waterford, a suburban town outside London. He is nineteen years old, and his return will have dramatic consequences not just for his family, but for the whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming has a very different effect. The war is over and Gilbert has been demobilized. He reverts easily to suburban life—cocktails at six-thirty, church on Sundays—but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her. Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she is dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis's grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to foresee the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open. In this brilliant debut, Sadie Jones tells the story of a boy who refuses to accept the polite lies of a tightly knit community that rejects love in favor of appearances. Written with nail-biting suspense and cinematic pacing, The Outcast is an emotionally powerful evocation of postwar provincial English society and a remarkably uplifting testament to the redemptive powers of love and understanding.