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Product Description: Decolonization since 1945 in the Caribbean, as in Africa and Asia, has produced new politics in old societies. Caribbean societies are of great social scientific interest because of their origins in forced labour - slavery and indenture, and the close association, historically, between social position, skin colour and culture...read more

Product Description: "Jimmy always told me there were only two kinds of gangbangers: Those who were dead and those who were going to die. Joining a gang doesn't make sense to Jimmy..." Jimmy is dead now -- gunned down in front of his little sister, Mina, and his brother, Tito...read more

South Africa in Transition utilises new theoretical perspectives to describe and explain central dimensions of the democratic transition in South Africa during the late 1980s and early 1990s, covering changes in the politics of gender and education, the political discourses of the ANC, NP and the white right, constructions of identity in South Africa's black townships and rural areas, the role of political violence in the transition, and accounts of the democratization process itself.

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Rhythm Azure, a young freedom-fighting law student, lays her life on the line for Moses King, a gang leader sentenced to life without parole for a crime he did not commit, when she, while investigating the case, stumbles upon a government conspiracy that could tear the city of Chicago apart. Original.

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Product Description: The local gang need help with robbery-and Jack has access to his locksmith father's master key. Will he help them steal? Urban thriller. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

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After three weeks in Manhattan, Kingdom Trahan is ready to get back to bayous, crawfish boils, and afternoons fishing on the Gulf. But before he can pull out of the parking garage, he meets a curvy detour. King noticed Cady Kowalski on the photo shoot he just endured - sexy and confident, with a waifish look that belies the way she corralled him into submission using only a can of hairspray. Yet Cady isn't confident now. She's bruised, edgy, and desperate to get out of town...For years, Cady has been looking over her shoulder, wondering when the gang of drug-running criminals who killed her brother would make their move on her. She's grown used to having no one to turn to, no one to trust. But King isn't walking away - not even when their lives are threatened, again and again. Drawing Cady's pursuers out of hiding is the only way to end this, and it's also the most reckless thing they can do...short of diving into a red-hot affair from which there's no turning back...

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Maya Archer is at the wrong place at the wrong time when gunshots ring out in front of a popular teen hangout. Is DeWayne Pike the true target? Does he duck before the shots ring out as Jacklyn claims? If true, DeWayne is putting them all at risk, but e...read more

Product Description: When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created "perfect" life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect...read more

Product Description: With his father in a nursing home and his mother needing support, former Great Smoky Mountains park ranger Lincoln Vailes moves to the bayou town of Eternal Springs, Louisiana, to become a police officer. Recent college graduate and eager social worker Jade Laurent has also moved there to try and right the wrongs of an abusive past...read more

Just 32-pages each paperback books for struggling readers power-packed with reading enjoyment. Here are 40 exiting hi-lo novels with various themes guaranteed to keep your student turning the pages until the very end!

Product Description: The future he was meant for is just within his reach. . . Franklyn "Franky" Bourgeois is fifteen, and he's already done more living than most. First he was blasted out of a normal childhood in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit...read more

Product Description: The single-mother families of the isolated high-rise community under the shadow of the Lyderhorn, Bergen's great mountain - steep, dark and oppressive - were being robbed, terrorized and molested by a teenage gang led by the psychopath, Joker, who looked like a priest, but with the eyes of a tiger and the teeth of a decaying corpse...read more