Author: Ruth Lehrer
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763697028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Fishkill Carmel fends for herself, with her fists if need be — until a thwarted lunch theft introduces her to strange, sunny Duck-Duck, and a chance for a new start. Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen-going-on-fifty, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter once she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Surveys and Investigations Staff
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Category : Agricultural chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Author: Richard Mather Bayles
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Category : Providence County (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Author: William Smith Pelletreau
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Category : Putnam County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
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Author: Anthony D. Marshall
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1638858225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 559
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The only child of Brooke Astor, the "Queen of New York", (a powerful force who inherited the enormous Astor fortune), Anthony Marshall became a decorated Marine, a diplomat and US ambassador, a codebreaker, a covert spy with the newly formed CIA, a special assistant to the U2 program during the Cold War and dedicated to the global conservation of animal and floral habitat. Always interested in the arts, he and his third wife co-produced two Tony Award Broadway plays in the early 2000s. Marshall was the stepson of Vincent Astor, one of the wealthiest men in America, and witnessed the life of the ultra-privileged in New York City firsthand. In 2006, his carefully directed life was on the verge of being destroyed by a criminal accusation from his own son. Heartbroken, Marshall read the formal wording of the accusation: "elder abuse" of his mother who was then one hundred four years old. What followed were years of constant tabloid sensationalism and negative press that destroyed Marshall's reputation and damaged his relationships with family and friends. After a six months long trial, he was sentenced to 1- 3 years in a New York State prison when he was eighty-nine years old. Together with his beloved wife Charlene, he faced what he called "the greatest challenge of my life" since landing his Marine platoon onto Blue Beach at Iwo Jima on D+1. These two survived this brutal attack together with their souls intact and their love stronger than ever. These are his stories.
Author: University of the State of New York
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Author: University of the State of New York (New York, State of)
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Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Author: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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