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Author: Hannah Eliot
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-09-19
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1665942681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It’s the eighties, baby! This adorable, electric board book features everything from neon legwarmers to totally rad rock music, and plenty of eighties slang! I’m an eighties baby, check me out! I’m tubular, I’m radical, I’m chill, no doubt. From shoulder pads to fanny packs, Walkmans to VCRs, this baby’s got your eighties dreams covered!
Author: Nasreath L. King
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 1480811688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 1980s baby, author Nasreath L. King was raised in Brooklyn, New York, a place that for him was one of the worst in America. With danger lurking in the corners, and an abundance of thieves and drug dealers, it was a difficult city in which to grow up. In 80s Baby Righteous Life, King shares the stories of his life. Interspersed with poetry, he narrates the sadness and pain that permeated much of his existence. Abused and living a life of poverty, King discusses how he learned to forgive, overcome negativity, and strive toward happiness. He touches on a variety of subjects including love, obesity, and trust. In this memoir, King tells how the love of his mother and his faith in God help him persevere. 80s Baby Righteous Life presents the message that each of us has a purpose in life, and King hopes to facilitate happiness and peace through his poetry.
Author: Ty Marshall
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-12
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780998441917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By the beginning of the 1980's, the Bronx had become a godforsaken slum, making it the ideal location for an epidemic. That epidemic arrived in the form of crack cocaine, which hit the streets with a savage force setting off an explosion of violent crime unlike anything ever seen before. The birth of crack brought with it more money, more guns and more gangs. The faces of which were younger, hungrier and more vicious than their predecessors.In 1986, Hassan, a student of the streets put those lessons to work, ascending above all other ghetto dons and planting his flag at the top of the drug game. After successfully merging the North and Southside, Hassan ceases control of the largest projects in The Bronx, The Edenwald Houses. With maximum power and unlimited resources he and his crew reign supreme over the crack trade. But what crack giveth, crack taketh away as jealousy, rival crews and the federal government began chipping away at his once mighty empire. Enter Rhae, a beautiful, around the way girl, raised in the same unforgiven streets. After falling in love with Hassan, she tries convincing him to leave the game behind. But old habits die hard and the allure is stronger than either of them could imagine proving to be easier said than done.
Author: Gabrielle Moss
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1683690796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.
Author: Lenny Haskins, #84966-083
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1646280814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Peppa is an up-and-coming pimp from Richmond, California, who's facing the trials and tribulations of street life on his quest to be the biggest pimp he can possibly be. But the game he's playing comes with ultimate sacrifices and rules he must stick to for him to become successful in the game. He's a con man slash pimp who will do whatever to acquire the almighty dollar. He's dealing with a wife at home who's aware of his dealings with the streets and a flock of hos in his stable who are coming in at a rapid pace, and he's pissing some people off along the way. Eyevette, Peppa's wife, is a drug dealer who's dealing in the streets of Richmond, trying to grind her way to the top rock for rock. And she has the recipe that's going to get her rich. And she's doing so while raising her children and trying to stick by her husband's side through thick and thin and be a good bottom bitch to him and his stable, but while she's getting money, others want in on her turf. Lil Pep is a product of the '80s and is soaking all his parents' actions in and is watching and preparing himself to be a major pimp like his father or a major hustla' like his mother. His innocent youth is being sucked away before his eyes as he's getting the game raw and uncut from his parents. He is growing up in the '80s crack era where anything goes, and he wants in. Will this family make it through the storm, and do they realize the influence that they're having on their children? Dope era. It's all in the game.
Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1480469076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →DIVDIVWhom do you trust with your life?/divDIV Kelsey’s summer vacation will be perfect—a holiday on Beverly Island, where she’ll get to know her mom’s new boyfriend, Eric, and enjoy the perks of a sun-drenched beach and gorgeous lifeguards./divDIV But Kelsey’s dream holiday quickly turns into a nightmare when Eric’s daughter, Beth, goes missing. When Kelsey finds a mysterious note from Beth, she doesn’t know whom to believe. Also terrifying is the number of suspicious drownings and the creepy fisherman . . . at least she has the lifeguards around to protect her, right? But what Kelsey doesn’t know is that these lifeguards don’t come to the rescue—they have other plans./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richie Tankersley Cusick including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div/div
Author: John Bilancini
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-05
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →80s Baby is a story of childhood, told through the eyes of the man who that child became. In a series of essays, John Bilancini talks about the world of cartoons, television shows, food, toys, commercials, video games, books, and more that helped shape his upbringing. In doing so, John tries to expose younger generations to beloved 80s and 90s memories while reminding other millennials of the world in which they came of age. Fans of McDonald's Happy Meal Toys, movie tie-ins, Ninja Turtles, VHS tapes, He-Man, and more will see themselves in these pages.
Author: Michael Koresky
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1488078351
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Esquire Best Book About Hollywood A USA TODAY Best Book of 2021 “A lovely and loving book.”—Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club "I'm not sure I have ever read a book about movies that is as tender and open-hearted as Films of Endearment."—Mark Harris, New York Times bestselling author of Mike Nichols: A Life A poignant memoir of family, grief and resilience about a young man, his dynamic mother and the '80s movies they shared together Michael Koresky's most formative memories were simple ones. A movie rental. A mug of tea. And a few shared hours with his mother. Years later and now a successful film critic, Koresky set out on a journey with his mother to discover more about their shared cinematic past. They rewatched ten films that she first introduced to him as a child, one from every year of the '80s, each featuring women leads. Together, films as divergent as 9 to 5, Terms of Endearment, The Color Purple and Aliens form the story of an era that Koresky argues should rightly be called "The Decade of the Actress." Films of Endearment is a reappraisal of the most important and popular female-driven films of that time, a profound meditation on loss and resilience, and a celebration of the special bond between mothers and their sons.
Author: Maria T. Grasso
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1317407962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new comparative analysis shows that there are reasons to be concerned about the future of democratic politics. Younger generations have become disengaged from the political process. The evidence presented in this comprehensive study shows that they are not just less likely than older generations to engage in institutional political activism such as voting and party membership - they are also less likely to engage in extra-institutional protest activism. Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe offers a rigorously researched empirical analysis of political participation trends across generations in Western Europe. It examines the way in which the political behaviour of younger generations leads to social change. Are younger generations completely disengaged from politics, or do they simply choose to participate in a different way to previous generations? The book is of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political sociology, political participation and behaviour, European Politics, Comparative Politics and Sociology.
Author: Judith Warner
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-02-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1440620164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands. When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached. Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them. Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.
