reconciliation

"Gregory Boyle, SJ, spends his days at Homeboy Industries accompanying ex-gang members as they rebuild their lives. Forgive Everyone Everything is a collection of his most poignant writings based on decades of experiences of loss and pain, redemption and renewal. These reflections, accompanied by street art from acclaimed artist and ex-gang member Fabian Debora, come together as a modern-day devotional that provokes and inspires readers from all walks of life".

"The Cupcake Club questions its loyalties when Mia makes friends with a mean girl in disguise"--Provided by publisher.

"This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs, tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them."--.

Kristina Wandzilak describes her years of addiction to alcohol and drugs, her terrible experiences on the streets, and her process of recovery, while her mother, Constance Curry, chronicles the family's struggles and her own recovery from codependency.

This handbook "offers powerful and practical tools to help you explore the history of racism, challenge stereotypes, and manage the stress and remorse that result from living in an unequal worlds. You'll understand your own racial identity, navigate daily and past experiences of racism, and examine ways racism affects all aspects of life-- from work to family to relationships. FInally, you'll discover how you can fight for racial justice, be an ally, and forge the building blocks needed to create a community of healing."--Cover.

When 89-year-old Edith Westerfeld returns to the small German town where her Jewish family had lived for hundreds of years to witness the installation of a memorial to her family--part of an effort throughout Europe to confront the genocide of World War II, she experiences how art is helping today's generation face and atone for crimes of the past.

In this verse novel, seventeen-year-old Blade Morrison, the son of fallen rock star Rutherford Morrison and the late Sunny Morrison, is struggling with his father's addiction and his girlfriend's betrayal when he learns he was adopted. He sets out on a coming-of-age journey to find his birth mother who is teaching in a small village in Ghana.

Emma London thought she didn't have anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve. Genevieve had a hard life with the disappearance of her son and the death of her husband. She took in Emma when her own mother died--until Emma got pregnant her senior year of high school. After being kicked out, Emma built up a successful life on her own. But when her grandmother calls asking for help, Emma must decide what to do.

In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to personal healing and freedom from her past, it would be remarkable enough. But Uwimana didn?t stop there. Leaving a secure job in business, she devoted the rest of her life to restoring her country by empowering other genocide widows to band together, tell their stories, find healing, and rebuild their lives. The stories she has uncovered through her work and recounted here illustrate the complex and unfinished work of truth-telling, recovery, and reconciliation that may be Rwanda?s lasting legacy. Rising above their nation?s past, Rwanda?s genocide survivors are teaching the world the secret to healing the wound of war and ethnic conflict.