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  • - Parque de Remolque
    av J C Dillard
    266,-

    Young Robert finds himself without a friend when his dad moves their family from their big suburban home to a trailer park. At first Robert looks down on the multi-racial blue collar children in the park. But after Jessie extends her hand in friendship over and over, the boy learns he has moved into the most generous and loving people in the world.

  • - Parque de Remolqu
    av Jc Dillard
    160,-

    When his family moved to the trailer park, Robert hated the park, and he didn't trust the new neighbors. He missed his big house, the big yard and his old friends.Here's our new neighborhood," said Robert's dad."This isn't a real neighborhood," said Robert."This is a trailer park."But a young girl named Jessie slowly and patiently reached out her hand in friendship, until Robert learned his new neighbors in the park were the best people in the world.For every child who felt alone and without a friend, this book is for you.

  • av Mark Torres
    276,-

    or years sanitation worker Jake repaired broken toys he pulled from the trash and gave them to the children in the local shelter at Christmas. Jake is fired for breaking city regulations when an angry motorist reports Jake, His union takes the case to arbitration. Will Jake win his job back?

  • - Buen Chico Jake
    av Mark Torres
    176,-

  • av Andy Carter
    170,-

  • - A Militant Family's Journey Through the Twentieth Century
    av Richard March
    270,-

  • - La Aventura de Jaime en el Autolavado
    av Victor Narro
    176,-

  • av Ali & Valerie Bustamante
    136,-

  • av Stephen Pearl & Rafael Pearl
    170,-

  • - A Mill Town Mystery
    av Linda Nordquist
    190,-

    Fearless steelworker Ginny Johnson was fighting to stop the steel mill from closing when she disappeared. She’d accused the local union leadership of selling out the rank and file, making the local union president her enemy, while threatening to disrupt the steel company’s plans to shut down more mills across the country.No one investigated Ginny’s disappearance.Twenty years later, Ginny’s daughter Cory returns to her mill town home hoping to discover why her mother vanished. Cory finds old friends of her mother who want to help her, and old enemies who want to keep the past dead and buried.  Her quest puts Cory in the same danger her mother faced. Will she, too, end up one of the missing?Find out in the stunning debut novel from former steelworker Linda Nordquist.

  • av Kevin Corley
    260,-

    Coal mine wars. That's what they called the long, bloody conflict between rival unions that tore apart families and communities throughout Illinois during the 1930s. Hot-headed Vinnie Vacca sides with the newly-formed Progressive Miners of America. His stubborn brother Bullo fights for the established United Mine Workers while the coal mine bosses hire Chicago gun thugs from the Capone mob to spread death and fear across the landscape. Vinnie and Bullo's father Antonio struggles to make peace within the family-and the community-as the unending bombings and gunfights kill too many too young. This bloody story is based on actual events that occurred throughout Illinois from 1933 to 1937. A stunning sequel to Corley's acclaimed debut novel Sixteen Tons.

  • - A Lenny Moss Mystery
    av Timothy Sheard
    176,-

    A nurse accused of the wrongful death of her patient swears she is innocent, but the only one who believes her is a co-worker, who enlists the help of James Madision's fearless union steward and amateur detective, Lenny Moss.But Lenny has his hands full — The Croesus Medical Group, the new hospital owner, is threatening to withdraw contributions to the union's health and pension benefit fund. If they stop making payments, the fund will become insolvent and all the workers, active and retired, will lose their benefits. For many of them, it would be a death sentence.Fighting the new administration, Lenny barely has time to investigate the mysterious death — until he finds himself with more time on his hands that he ever expected to have in the 7th exciting Lenny Moss mystery.This Won’t Hurt A Bit "Since there’s no merit to the case against the laundry worker to begin with, Lenny is just wasting his time. But Sheard, a veteran nurse, makes sure that readers do not waste theirs. His intimate view of Lenny’s world is a gentle eye-opener into the way a large institution looks from a workingman’s perspective." New York Times Some Cuts Never Heal "This well-plotted page-turner is guaranteed to scare the bejesus out out of anyone anticipating a hospital stay anytime in the near future." Publishers Weekly 

  • - Classroom Edition
    av Alex Kudera
    246,-

    In a polarized post-9/11 America, Cyrus Duffleman, adjunct anti-hero of the 21st century, bobs and weaves through five jobs at four universities in one day. Comedy and tragedy interweave as Duffleman braces for the challenges more and more American workers face in the new "gig" economy. If you care about the future of higher education, our students and teachers, this is the novel you need to read now.This classroom edition includes bonus essays, interviews and graphics about adjunct survival and the state of so-called "higher" education. Alex Kudera's award-winning Fight for Your Long Day puts college realities on the map."It took nearly 40 years before anyone wrote a novel told consistently from the perspective of an adjunct, and Alex Kudera's Fight for Your Long Day is an excellent tome. The world needs his voice." Emily Toth, (Ms. Mentor), the Chronicle of Higher Education"The depiction of academic life had me both laughing and cringing at its accuracy. As in the best comic fiction, there is poignant undercurrent of seriousness in this novel. Kudera is the real deal." -Ron Rash, author of One Foot in Eden, John Parris, Chair in Appalachian Studies, Western Carolina University.

  • av Ann Berlak & Jose Antonio Galloso
    200,-

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