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The life of eleven-year-old Alestir Perez is not an easy one. The constant isolation and abuse that make up his world are slowly pushing him to the brink of insanity. Soon Alestir will not be able to control the darkness and rage he has inside. When it seems like there’s no hope left in his struggle with an abusive and alcoholic father at home and a gang of sadistic bullies at school, Alestir meets Randy. The popular and athletic seventeen-year-old becomes his only friend and teaches him things his father never could or would. Just as their bond begins to bring him some sense of happiness and belonging, Alestir’s father learns about this boy named Randy. How can an emotionally damaged eleven-year-old cope with the unfairness of his world and the obsession he feels toward the one person who actually shows him kindness? Which direction will Alestir turn and whose life will never be the same?
Its the end of the summer in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and an eager group of high school teenagers pack into a bus for a well-planned week at a summer camp. What could possibly go wrong? Everything does! After a devastating accident, the surviving students find themselves all alone against the untamed wilderness, pitted against each other, with no idea how to get home and no means of survival. Will this group of friends endure the hardships of the Forest Mountains? Will they be able to work together in order to survive? Or will they destroy each other before the darkest elements of nature beat them to it.
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Decades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to “unbankable” communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan funds, credit unions, and even a new bank—organizations that by 1992 became known as “community development financial institutions,” or CDFIs. By melding their vision with that of President Clinton, CDFIs grew from church basements and kitchen tables to number more than 1,000 institutions with billions of dollars of capital. They have helped transform community de...
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