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Back Street
Author: Fannie HurstBack Street
Author: Fannie HurstPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804170681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The bestselling story behind Ross Hunter’s classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin. When “fly girl” and gorgeous socialite Ray Schmidt first meets Walter Saxel in Cincinnati, their attraction is instant and everlasting. As their bond deepens, Ray finds herself envisioning a future with Walter, until one fateful day when the settling of her family affairs interferes with their plans to meet, and his relationship with another woman forms. Though years pass and Ray manages to carve out a life for herself in New York City, Walter remains in her memory, and a chance run-in with him leads them both to fall into their former ways. What unfolds is the fascinating tale of what life was for selfless, devoted Ray, a prisoner to her love for the one man who would never fully love her back. Originally published in 1931, this bestselling classic novel about the heartbreak of living along the “back streets” of a man’s life was adapted into film three times. With a new foreword by Cari Beauchamp. Vintage Movie Classics spotlights classic films that have stood the test of time, now rediscovered through the publication of the novels on which they were based.
Back Street to Happy
Author: Gary D. JeffersonPublisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480808350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
La Gina is a smart, Hurricane Katrina survivor who used her physical gifts to achieve material gain. La Gina is now settled in a new life with her husband, Earl Cuyler, a police detective with strong convictions and a wandering eye. Although Earl claims to love La Gina, her friends think otherwise, but they have their own personal battles. Raymond thinks he is too poor to marry his woman. Suzi is in love with her neighbor, Zege, who is interested in a casual friendship with benefits. Everything changes when La Gina is diagnosed with breast cancer. Earl abandons her because he could not tolerate the effects that chemotherapy was having on his pride and joy_La Ginas body and her long, beautiful hair. Earl tells La Gina, well, that is your problem, your sickness or illness, whatever, not mine. La Gina thinks her illness is one of her greatest challengesuntil Earl is charged with murdering his mistress and her unborn child. Throughout her illness, La Gina undergoes a paradigm shift and begins to govern her behavior by reasoning and logic. She decides to stand by Earl while he is being investigated for the horrific crime. Her friends think that she has gone cray-cray. All of that is about to change when friends help her realize that she may be an accomplice to the murders. Back Street to Happy is the suspenseful tale of a womans journey to attain her dreams, despite a betrayal by the man she loves.
Back Street Girls 6
Author: Jasmine GyuhPublisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1642125725
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
It was gods who created the Gokudols. In this sixth volume, President Inugane and his favorite underwear-clad plastic surgeons take on an especially vigorous challenge! Then, when Lina's "God"-father returns to Japan, will the Gokudols' research student finally graduate from this once unescapable group?! And what happens when Natsuko, who's still on the warpath, gets captured by her husband's Inugane gang?! Get ready to be moved by this story of divine and human love. The curtain rises on the origin story of idols made up of only the sacred Father and wrought by Gods who govern money and madness.
Searching for Mercy Street
Author: Linda Gray SextonPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582438781
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
New York Times Notable Book: A “beautifully written” memoir by the daughter of the brilliant, troubled poet (Detroit Free Press). This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty–one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother’s life. Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine—and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood. “Sexton forcefully communicates the fear, repulsion, neediness, and sorrow that filled her childhood, as well as the agony of her own mental breakdown and her terror of becoming like her mother, in lucid and vivid prose.” —The Boston Globe “A candid, often painful depiction of a daughter’s struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother.” —The New York Times
Take on the Street
Author: Arthur LevittPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375422358
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In Take on the Street, Arthur Levitt--Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission for eight years under President Clinton--provides the best kind of insider information: the kind that can help honest, small investors protect themselves from the deliberately confusing ways of Wall Street. At a time when investor confidence in Wall Street and corporate America is at an historic low, when many are seriously questioning whether or not they should continue to invest, Levitt offers the benefits of his own experience, both on Wall Street and as its chief regulator. His straight talk about the ways of stockbrokers (they are salesmen, plain and simple), corporate financial statements (the truth is often hidden), mutual fund managers (remember who they really work for), and other aspects of the business will help to arm everyone with the tools they need to protect—and enhance—their financial future.
Movement
Author: Thalia VerkadePublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642833444
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, journalist Thalia Verkade and mobility expert ("the cycling professor") Marco te Brömmelstroet take a three-year shared journey of discovery into the possibilities of our streets. They investigate and question the choices and mechanisms underpinning how these public spaces are designed and look at how they could be different. Verkade and te Brömmelstroet draw inspiration from the Netherlands and look at what other countries are doing, and could do, to diversify how they use their streets and make them safer. Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.
To Hope and Back
Author: Kathy KacerPublisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1926920406
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Lisa and Sol board the luxury ocean liner St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany on May 13, 1939. Lisa and her family are in first class; Sol and his parents are below in tourist class. Both children have mixed feelings Ð theyÕre excited to be beginning this voyage to a better life, but sad to be leaving their old lives behind. They are Jewish, as are almost all of the 937 passengers on board, and although war has not been officially declared in Europe, the Nazis have been persecuting Jews for years. As the ship sets sail for Cuba, the atmosphere is optimistic. The passengers feel fortunate to have been able to buy landing permits, and their German captain, Gustave Shrder, is determined to get them to safety. The captainÕs voice alternates with Sol and LisaÕs, revealing the details they didnÕt know. As HitlerÕs propaganda machine turns Cuba against them, the mood on board changes to despair. The St. Louis and its Jewish passengers are turned away Ð first from Cuba, then the United States, and then Canada. This was the tragic true history of the St. Louis. Denied entry from port after port, the captain was forced to return his passengers to Europe, where many died in the Holocaust. Through the eyes of Sol and Lisa Ð both of whom survived the war and shared their experiences with Kathy Kacer Ð we see the injustice and heartbreak that were caused by the prejudice and ignorance of so many.
The Bourbon Street Band Is Back
Author: Ed ShankmanPublisher: Shankman & O'Neill
ISBN: 9781933212791
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Drummer Bobcat Bob leads a popular New Orleans band of multi-cultural musicians, but for months the music stops until a single drum beat on Bourbon Street begins to bring it back.
Catalog of Copyright Entries, Fourth Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
