Tag: Collectors

October 4, 2024

The Rent Collectors Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

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Free Download Jesse Katz, "The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA"
English | ISBN: 1662601735 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
"For a tough-guy book about tough guys, this is a work of almost unerring tenderness. If its subtitle promises "redemption," the book itself delivers something more honest: stories about people broken by powers larger than they are and who nonetheless find the will to fight on." – Ben Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review

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September 29, 2024

The Rent Collectors Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D8JR1FMJ | 2024 | 10 hours and 8 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Jesse Katz
Narrator: Jesse Katz
A searing account of gang violence and its consequences . . . Macedo’s grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime-and, to be sure, true punishment. Baby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA’s most predatory gangs, the Columbia Lil Cycos-so desperate that he agrees to kill an undocumented Mexican street vendor. The vendor, Francisco Clemente, had been refusing to give in to the gang’s shakedown demands. But Giovanni botches the hit, accidentally killing a newborn instead.

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September 17, 2024

The Tree Collectors Tales of Arboreal Obsession [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLYQG53V | 2024 | 5 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Amy Stewart
Narrator: Jade Wheeler
Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees-written by the New York Times bestselling author. When Amy Stewart discovered a community of tree collectors, she expected to meet horticultural fanatics driven to plant every species of oak or maple. But she also discovered that the urge to collect trees springs from something deeper and more profound: a longing for community, a vision for the future, or a path to healing and reconciliation. In this slyly humorous, informative, often poignant volume, Stewart brings us captivating stories of people who spend their lives in pursuit of rare and wonderful trees and are transformed in the process.

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September 13, 2024

The Evolving House Museum Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now

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Free Download Margaret Iacono Wertz, "The Evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now "
English | ISBN: 9004690190 | 2024 | 336 pages | PDF | 50 MB
This volume explores twelve house museums, created over more than two centuries, and founded across the globe. What motivates collectors to establish independent house museums instead of donating their collections to preexisting institutions? How have collectors’ original intentions manifested themselves in their museums? Have founder mandates aided the survival or caused the demise of their institutions? How have house museums’ collections or buildings evolved over time? Must museums reinterpret their collections to remain relevant to contemporary and diverse audiences? In seeking to answer these questions, the volume’s authors share the unique stories behind the creation and evolution of these fascinating institutions, and the intriguing stories of the exceptional individuals who founded them.

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March 7, 2024

The Collectors Stories [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Collectors: Stories (Audiobook)
English | September 19, 2023 | ASIN: B0BS9ZBRCH | M4B@128 kbps | 6h 15m | 354 MB
Editor: A.S. King | Narrators: Becca Q. Co, Frankie Corzo, Vas Eli, Nicky Endres, Guy Lockard, Alex McKenna, Anthony Rey Perez, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Victoria Villarreal
From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King and an all-star team of contributors including Anna-Marie McLemore and Jason Reynolds, an anthology of stories about remarkable people and their strange and surprising collections.

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