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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young Black man who himself was a lost cause - until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.
Born into abject poverty in Haiti, young Jim St. Germain moved to Brooklyn's Crown Heights, into an overcrowded apartment with his family. He quickly adapted to street life and began stealing, dealing drugs, and growing increasingly indifferent to despair and violence. By the time he was arrested for dealing crack cocaine, he had been handcuffed more than a dozen times. At the age of 15, the walls of the system were closing around him.
But instead of prison, St. Germain was placed in "Boys Town", a nonsecure detention facility designed for rehabilitation. Surrounded by mentors and positive male authority who enforced a system based on structure and privileges rather than intimidation and punishment, St. Germain slowly found his way, eventually getting his GED and graduating from college. Then he made the bravest decision of his life: to live, as an adult, in the projects where he had lost himself, and to work to reform the way the criminal justice system treats at-risk youth.
A Stone of Hope is more than an incredible coming-of-age story; told with a degree of candor that requires the deepest courage, it is also a rallying cry. No one is who they are going to be - or capable of being - at 16. St. Germain is living proof of this. He contends that we must work to build a world in which we do not give up on a swath of the next generation.
Passionate, eloquent, and timely, A Stone of Hope is an inspiring challenge for every American and is certain to spark debate nationwide.
©2017 Jim St. Germain (P)2017 HarperCollins PublishersLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatest managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
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- De DanO en 01-15-08
De: Sudhir Venkatesh
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The Beast Side
- Living (and Dying) While Black in America
- De: D. Watkins
- Narrado por: Brandon Rubin
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.
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Excellent
- De Bruce Cline en 03-28-23
De: D. Watkins
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The Gift of Our Wounds
- A Sikh and a Former White Supremacist Find Forgiveness After Hate
- De: Pardeep Singh Kaleka, Arno Michaelis, Robin Gaby Fisher
- Narrado por: Kirby Heyborne, John McLain
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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When white supremacist Wade Michael Page murdered six people and wounded four in a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin in 2012, Pardeep Kaleka was devastated. The temple leader, now dead, was his father. His family, who had immigrated to the US from India when Pardeep was young, had done everything right. Why was this happening to him? Arno Michaelis, a former skinhead and founder of one of the largest racist skinhead organizations in the world, knew he had to take action and fight against the very crimes he used to commit.
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The Gift
- De M. Forsberg en 07-29-22
De: Pardeep Singh Kaleka, y otros
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A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
- True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
- De: Chris Gethard
- Narrado por: Chris Gethard
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance. A Bad Idea I'm About to Do invites listeners to join Chris as he navigates an adolescence and adulthood mired in hilariously ill-fated nerdom, and to take comfort in the fact that - as his experiences often prove - things could always be much, much worse.
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Loved it!!!
- De Amber G en 10-02-20
De: Chris Gethard
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Once a Cop
- The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man
- De: Corey Pegues
- Narrado por: Corey Pegues
- Duración: 10 h y 8 m
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New Jack City meets Serpico in this provocative memoir of a crack dealer-turned-decorated NYPD officer - a timely reflection on the complex relationship between the police and the communities they are meant to protect.
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A POSSIBLE GOOD BOOK RUINED BY NARRATION
- De The Louligan en 05-29-16
De: Corey Pegues
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The Boy Kings of Texas
- A Memoir
- De: Domingo Martinez
- Narrado por: Emilio Delgado
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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A lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a border-town family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980s, as each member of the family desperately tries to assimilate and escape life on the border to become "real" Americans, even at the expense of their shared family history. This is really un-mined territory in the memoir genre that gives in-depth insight into a previously unexplored corner of America.
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It was Okay
- De DebKoo en 05-17-13
De: Domingo Martinez
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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The Postmortal
- A Novel
- De: Drew Magary
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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In a world where an anti-aging cure is available worldwide, immortality comes with its own unique problems. John Farrell is about to get "The Cure". Old age can never kill him now. The only problem is, everything else still can.
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Interesting concept but bleak and wearing
- De Amazon Customer en 05-15-12
De: Drew Magary
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Samaritan
- De: Richard Price
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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After a successful L.A. television career, Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey housing project where he grew up, to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter, and give back to the community. Things are looking up: he's seeing a woman from the old neighborhood and teaching at his high school. But suddenly, he is found savagely beaten. He knows who did it, but won't talk. It's up to Nerese Ammons, a childhood acquaintance and now a police detective, to get Ray to tell what happened.
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another fix for Wire fans
- De AmazonShoppingQueen en 04-19-08
De: Richard Price
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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Bluegrass
- A True Story of Murder in Kentucky
- De: William Van Meter
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Widely published journalist William Van Meter returned to his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky to research this harrowing account of a horrifying crime that occurred at Western Kentucky University. In 2003, attractive college student Katie Autry was found dead in her dorm room after being raped, stabbed, and set on fire. As Van Meter delves into the facts of the case, further disturbing information surfaces.
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Excellent!
- De brooke whitehead en 01-09-23
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Loving Day
- De: Mat Johnson
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 2 m
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On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear. The next day he encounters ghosts of a different kind: In the face of the teenage girl he meets at a comics convention, he sees the mingled features of his white father and his black mother, both now dead. The girl is his daughter, and she thinks she's white.
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Teen lit with heavy erotic imagery
- De Itinerant T en 08-26-15
De: Mat Johnson
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A Dangerous Road
- Smokey Dalton, Book 1
- De: Kris Nelscott
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he’s surprised the day a white woman walks into his Beale Street office. Laura Hathaway has sought him out because he’s a beneficiary in her mother’s will, and Laura wants to know why. So does Smokey. He’s never heard of the Hathaways, but his search will take him on a journey that will change everything he’s ever known.
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Interesting Slice of US History...but Ponderous
- De Rancher en 12-18-13
De: Kris Nelscott
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- Beverly G.
- 12-31-22
Eye Opening!!!
I loved this detailed look onto Jim St. Germain's impossible odds and how people invested time and effort into a boy who would become a beacon of hope to so many lost young people! Thank you to EVERYONE who made this possible!!!
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- K Jones
- 11-19-23
Powerful
Jim St. Germain details a heart wrenching vivid account of what it’s like for poverty stricken youth to navigate through systems that were naturally designed to fail and derail them. Throughout this book you’ll be challenged to self reflect and acknowledge, either the choices you’ve made that continue the oppression of young, black children or the moments you’ve stood up and become a voice for those that never had a chance to speak.
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- MsKit
- 12-13-17
Inspiring and Needed
This book gives in-depth personal insight into the struggles of growing up in the projects in Brooklyn NY and the many obstacles preventing youth from escaping the cycle of poverty and violence in urban USA. Ultimately inspiring story of a man who made I️t “out” but stays as I️t is responsibility to the next generation.
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- Liza in Seattle
- 02-15-19
A moving, honest, engaging account of a life we all need to hear about
Mr. St. Germaine speaks incredibly truthfully, starkly and with profound effect about his life so far - where he came from and what he’s managed to create against serious odds; the power of mentors, multiple second chances, and shear will.
He conveys the power of positive behavioral and restorative justice programs like Boys Town, bringing them and the life saving opportunity they provide to life for those without first hand experience of such places.
His book is not only a great and engaging memoir, but a thought provoking and arresting call to action.
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- Diane Moseberry
- 03-08-18
Bold, compelling read
I loved this book. Listened every free moment until it was finished. This is a story that I have been changed by and everyone should read this book.
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- Sagine Valla
- 11-26-18
Vivid, engaging life story
So glad Jim St Germain wrote this book. It brings humanity and understanding to young black men who are often discarded, attacked and misunderstood by society. Thank you for writing this book. Your commitment to the work that you do is much needed and inspiring.
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