Bøker av Jon Wilson

This is my journey from an abandoned street kid in South Korea to a U.S. citizen with a purpose designed by God. My parents left me to Buddha Temple age three, ran away age 5 on street to search for them. I traveled on foot, buses and trains. I ate off of garbage cans and on the ground. Slept on the ground, bus and train stations. As a boy growing up on the streets and orphanages I was abuse, starved, sick with polio and fell off wall. Then adopted to U.S. age 7 to experience new life with family but turn into many more challenges and difficulties like abuse, depression, suicides, addictions and anger. Later in my adulthood I find healing and peace within. This is God's story through me as much as it is my story! It's why I'm still alive!

Days of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches from his head? What in the restless photographer's life led to his bloody end? And whydid powerful men decide John Evans had to die for the crime? This book explores true-crime events buried for decades. It tells of the friendless Evans torn from his jail cell, marched down the main street, strung by his neck from a pole, and riddled with gunfire from men, women, and children. It suggests that someone close to Sherman killed him, igniting three days of brutality in a town that cherished its reputation as a placid and profitable resort. Days of Fear describes in detail St. Petersburg as it existed more than a century ago - a growing waterfront community particularly comfortable for white people but often difficult for Black people. It tells a grim story the authors hope is relevant to the twenty-first century's periodic mob violence and domestic terrorism.

Several years ago, Jon Wilson, editor of acclaimed WoodenBoat magazine, decided he'd had enough of the constant barrage of violence and misery in the media. His answer was the magazine Hope, dedicated to stories by and about uncelebrated people who make a positive difference in their communities and the world.Signs of Hope gathers the best of that journal, and restores our faith in the power of individual acts. For instance: a widow writes about the death of her husband and her struggle to endure; a counselor describes the transformative power of summer camp for children with a fatal blood disease; a psychologist discovers the vital human beings behind his patients' diagnoses; a father reveals what his newborn daughter taught him about men, women, and family. This is a collection to remind us of our common humanity and our capacity to give and to love. The magazine Hope is the winner of Utne Reader's 9th Annual Alternative Press Award and was named one of the "10 Best Magazines" by Library Journal.

India Conquered traces the rise and fall of British power in South Asia through the lives of ordinary British officers and their Indian subjects.