Author: Helene Stapinski
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0375758704
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Now a PBS documentary, this astonishing memoir of growing up in rough-and-tumble Jersey City “will steal your heart” (People) With deadpan humor and obvious affection, Five-Finger Discount recounts the story of an unforgettable New Jersey family of swindlers, bookies, embezzlers, and mobster-wannabes. In the memoir Mary Karr calls “a page-turner,” Helene Stapinski ingeniously weaves the checkered history of her hometown of Jersey City—a place known for its political corruption and industrial blight—with the tales that have swirled around her relatives for decades. Navigating a childhood of toxic waste and tough love, Stapinski tells an extraordinary tale at once heartbreaking and hysterically funny. Praise for Five-Finger Discount “By turns hilarious and alarming, [Helene Stapinski’s] book reads on the surface like something by Damon Runyon and Elmore Leonard, with a dark undertow of real-life pain and disillusion.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “It’s a brilliant book, a darling book. It is the blessedly modest chronicle of a magical consciousness that seems to have been born pulling diamonds out of the muck, hearing angels’ voices in the fiercest thunder. . . . I adored every word of this wondrous book. Get it. Read it.”—Michael Pakenham, The Baltimore Sun “In the tradition of . . . Rita Mae Brown and Amy Tan, Ms. Stapinski is an exciting writer, unabashedly candid, and at the same time unashamedly self-contained. Five-Finger Discount is a must-read.”—Victoria Gotti, The New York Observer “What [Frank] McCourt did for Limerick, Ireland, Helene Stapinski does for Jersey City.”—The Star-Ledger “Hugely entertaining.”—The Sunday Times (London)
Author: Felicia Law
Publisher: Bramblekids Limited
ISBN: 191383221X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Vocabulary-controlled starter readers for young children. Large text and ample spacing allows dual language insertion and ELT use.
Author: Douglas Seacat
Publisher: Privateer Press
ISBN: 9781933362076
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Enter the city of Five Fingers at your own risk. Though it is a place of vibrant trade and rampant opportunity, it is also a haven for pirates, thieves, and dark cultists. One day you could be socializing with the political elite, and the next day you could be running for your life from enforcers demanding tribute. Five Fingers is an active port city filled with mystery, intrigue, and danger where an adventurer can make his fortune, build a criminal enterprise, or meet a dubious end.
Author: Joseph C. Berland
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674625402
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world. Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and skills. No Five Fingers Are Alike, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies. By applying methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship between social experience and mental growth. He suggests that there are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive development.
Author: Māra Zālīte
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1943150745
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Five-year-old Laura was born in one of Joseph Stalin’s prison camps in Siberia. When the book opens, she and her parents are on their long journey back to Latvia, a country Laura knows only from the exuberant descriptions that whirled about the Gulag. Upon her arrival, however, she must come to terms with the conflicting images of the life she sees around her and the fairytale Latvia she grew up hearing about and imagining. Based on the author’s life, and written in lush language that defies the narrative’s many hardships, Five Fingers tells the story of a girl who moves between worlds in the hopes of finding a Latvia that she can call home.
Author: Ben Hogan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671723014
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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You can shoot in the 70's!Ben Hogan has long believed that any golfer with average coordination can learn to break 80 if he applies himself intelligently -- and here, with Herbert Warren Wind, and artist Anthony Ravielli, he tells you, step by step, just how to go about it.The greatest golfer of our generation has distilled his experience as teacher, player, and observer of golf into a series of richly illustrated "visual instructions" that not only can improve your game and lower your score, but also can help you get even more fun out of what many people already think is the most enjoyable game in the world.Each chapter, each tested "fundamental" is explained and demonstrated with amazing detail and clarity. It's as though the master himself were right there at your elbow, giving you a personal lesson with the same thought and care that has gone into his lifetime of golf.The Modern Fundamentals of Golfis no instant and easy shortcut. There is none. But with Ben Hogan as your pro,you can master these basic movements very quickly.And then you can go on to develop a correct, powerful swing that willrepeat.As Ben Hogan says, it's only then that you'll "discover golf for the first time."
Author: Al Perkins
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307978265
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The classic Beginner Book is now available with delightful audio narration. A madcap band of dancing, prancing monkeys explain hands, fingers, and thumbs to beginning readers. Bright and Early Books are perfect for beginning beginner readers! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1968 with The Foot Book, Bright and Early Books use fewer and easier words than Beginner Books. Readers just starting to recognize words and sound out letters will love these short books with colorful illustrations. This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.
Author: Dawn Civitello
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781977559524
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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A story about a young boy who was born with a limb difference (missing his left hand). This story takes us along on his journey of entering school for the very first time.
Author: Tom Tyler
Publisher: Posthumanities
ISBN: 9780816665433
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A provocative investigation into animals, hands, and human identity in Western philosophy
Author: Frances Clark
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457405990
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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An invaluable compendium of pre-college technique for students of late elementary through early advanced levels. The four volumes are designed to benefit any student in the mastery of crucial elements of technique, to learn to play well both technically and musically, and to think and listen from the twin standpoints of facility and tone production. Teaching Musical Fingers -- A Handbook for Teachers, stresses points to consider in teaching the exercises, as well as musical and technical attitudes to foster and develop.
