The Sugar Girls

Author: Duncan Barrett
Publisher: Charnwood
ISBN: 9781444813692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London¡s East End. Through the Blitz and on through the years of rationing the 'Sugar Girls' kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but Tate & Lyle was more than just a factory: it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of the East End. From young Ethel to love-worn Lilian, irrepressible Gladys to Miss Smith who tries to keep a workforce of flirtatious young men and women on the straight and narrow, this is an evocative, moving story of hunger, hardship and happiness.

Sugar Girls & Seamen

Author: Henry Trotter
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1770095756
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Sugar Girls & Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors. Dockside "sugar girls" work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world. Through their continual interactions with foreign seamen, they become major traffickers in culture, ideas, languages, styles, goods, currencies, genes and diseases. Many learn the seamen's tongues, develop emotional relationships with them, have their babies and become entangled in vast webs of connection. In many ways, these South African mermaids are the ultimate cosmopolitans, the unsung sirens of globalisation. Based on fifteen months of research at the seamen's nightclubs, plus countless interviews with sugar girls, sailors, club owners, cabbies, bouncers and barmaids, this book provides a comprehensive account of dockside "romance" at the southern tip of Africa. Through stories, analysis and first-hand experiences, it reveals this gritty world in all its raw vitality and fragile humanity. Sugar Girls & Seamen is simultaneously racy and light, critical and profound.

Sugar

Author: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316125784
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Towers Falling and Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick) comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future. Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu, they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, in turn, shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Here is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives forever.

The Sugar Girls – Ethel’s Story: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

Author: Duncan Barrett
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007485549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
During the Blitz, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace - it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London. This is Ethel’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls.

Traveling with Sugar

Author: Amy Moran-Thomas
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520297547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Traveling with Sugar reframes the rising diabetes epidemic as part of a five-hundred-year-old global history of sweetness and power. Amid eerie injuries, changing bodies, amputated limbs, and untimely deaths, many people across the Caribbean and Central America simply call the affliction “sugar”—or, as some say in Belize, “traveling with sugar.” A decade in the making, this book unfolds as a series of crónicas—a word meaning both slow-moving story and slow-moving disease. It profiles the careful work of those “still fighting it” as they grapple with unequal material infrastructures and unsettling dilemmas. Facing a new incarnation of blood sugar, these individuals speak back to science and policy misrecognitions that have prematurely cast their lost limbs and deaths as normal. Their families’ arts of maintenance and repair illuminate ongoing struggles to survive and remake larger systems of food, land, technology, and medicine.

Sugar Girl

Author: Emma L McGeown
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN: 1636791573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
After countless heartbreaks, Ciara Reilly has sworn off falling in love and turned her youth, beauty, and unlucky streak of dead-end relationships into a way to make money. After joining the Sugar Girl app, she has climbed the ranks to become one of the few Platinum Girls in Dublin and now has her choice of wealthy clients. It is a way of life for Ciara and means she can keep her family out of debt. The financial perks coupled with the casual dating arrangements suit her, primarily because she learned the hard way that falling in love and sugaring do not mix. That’s until she meets the stunning and wildly fascinating entrepreneur Charlie Keller. Their connection is instant but complicated. Charlie is everything Ciara has ever wanted, but falling for her means giving up everything she already has. Forced to choose between coming clean about her lucrative career or losing Charlie forever, will Ciara go sugar-free? Or will the secrets Charlie is keeping from her result in another heartbreak?

World of Betty & Veronica Digest #21

Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications
ISBN: 1645767647
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! First, in “Snow Way!“ When Betty & Veronica make snowmen in front of Veronica’s mansion, Veronica decides to outdo Betty and make a high-fashion snow-woman. Even though it’s done mostly as a joke, it catches the eye of a Holiday blogger and goes viral. Suddenly Veronica’s on Fashion TV with a whole runway of fashionable snow-people! But can she keep her cool enough to maintain this level of cold-weather celebrity? Then, in “Expensive Stuffing,” Betty’s volunteering at the local animal rehabilitation center, when she’s tasked with a very special case—the superhero Captain Flag’s beloved pet eagle is sick! Does Betty have the know-how to bring this special super-powered animal back to health?

Archie's Big Book Vol. 7

Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications (Trade)
ISBN: 168255810X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
ARCHIE'S BIG BOOK VOL. 7 is the latest of a series of deluxe softcovers featuring the classic Archie stories in-and-out of Riverdale. A value at $19.99, this comic-trim-sized collection is the best place to discover the origins of these characters right in time for their appearances on CW's Riverdale. With additional content and newly remastered comic art and coloring on selected stories, we expect this new value softcover should do very well on holiday displays and wherever books are sold. Join The Archies and Josie and the Pussycats as they showcase their musical abilities to the world! It's a match made in rock 'n' roll heaven when two of the greatest bands get together to make sweet music!

B&V Friends Comics Double Digest #252

Author: Archie Superstars
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications
ISBN: 1682550915
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
What do Halloween decorations, winter, owls and an angry Mr. Lodge all have to do with one another? A lot—and you’ll be shocked to know that none of it involves Archie! Piece together the wacky puzzle yourself by reading “Owl Be Seeing You!” the fun, new lead story to this JUMBO-SIZED comics digest!

Cheryl Blossom #21

Author: Holly G!
Publisher: Archie Comic Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 1619884836
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 25

Book Description
"Sugar World" It's musical madness when Cheryl auditions to become the next "Sugar Girl". Will she be a smash, or will her career hit a sour note?! Find out in this issue-length musical extravaganza!