Books written by Karl Alexander

  • The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
    The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

    Eggebeen, David J., and Daniel T. Lichter. 1991. “Race, Family Structure, and Changing Poverty Among ... Elder, Glen H., Jr., Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Monika Ardelt, and Sarah Lord. 1995. “InnerCity Parents Under Economic Pressure: ...

  • The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood
    The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood

    Although research for this book was conducted in Baltimore, that city’s struggles with deindustrialization, white flight, and concentrated poverty were characteristic of most East Coast and Midwest manufacturing cities.

  • Time After Time
    Time After Time

    In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time ...

  • The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss
    The Summer Slide: What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss

    What We Know and Can Do About Summer Learning Loss Karl Alexander, Sarah Pitcock, Matthew C. Boulay ... it is no surprise that public support for public funding of summer programs is high—85% in 2013, up from 83% in 2008.

  • Time After Time
    Time After Time

    this time of night in this neighborhood to get any air . SHIRELLE . If you was me , it wouldn't do you any good . ( She laughs . ) Maybe you want to keep a poor , vulnerable , working girl company for a little bit .

  • Papa and Fidel: A Novel
    Papa and Fidel: A Novel

    This novel about fathers and sons, hope and redemption, the author of Time After Time brilliantly evokes cultural icons in a thriller that captures the essence of its famous protagonists in a poignant, compelling drama that just might have ...

  • Jaclyn the Ripper
    Jaclyn the Ripper

    A sequel to Time After Time finds a homesick Amy, the wife of H. G. Wells, secretly attempting a time-travel visit to 2009 Los Angeles only to inadvertently free Jack the Ripper and scramble their DNA, an accident that transforms the ...

  • Jaclyn the Ripper
    Jaclyn the Ripper

    After H.G. met Amy Catherine Robbins, the love of his life, and banished the serial killer to the indefinite future, H.G. and Amy returned to 1893 London, believing they could live happily ever after. But that wasn't the end of the story.