Author: Hilda Eunice Burgos
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593110471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work overnight shifts in this honest and warm picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George Washington Bridge, while all she gets is a tiny bedroom with a view of her sister (who snores). Until one night when no one comes, and it's finally her chance! But as it turns out, sleeping on the cot in the living room isn't all she thought it would be. With charming text by Hilda Eunice Burgos and whimsical illustrations by Gaby D'Alessandro, The Cot in the Living Room is a celebration of the ways a Dominican American community takes care of one another while showing young readers that sometimes the best way to be a better neighbor is by imagining how it feels to spend a night sleeping on someone else's pillow.
The Cot in the Living Room
Author: Hilda Eunice Burgos
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593110471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work overnight shifts in this honest and warm picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George Washington Bridge, while all she gets is a tiny bedroom with a view of her sister (who snores). Until one night when no one comes, and it's finally her chance! But as it turns out, sleeping on the cot in the living room isn't all she thought it would be. With charming text by Hilda Eunice Burgos and whimsical illustrations by Gaby D'Alessandro, The Cot in the Living Room is a celebration of the ways a Dominican American community takes care of one another while showing young readers that sometimes the best way to be a better neighbor is by imagining how it feels to spend a night sleeping on someone else's pillow.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593110471
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work overnight shifts in this honest and warm picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George Washington Bridge, while all she gets is a tiny bedroom with a view of her sister (who snores). Until one night when no one comes, and it's finally her chance! But as it turns out, sleeping on the cot in the living room isn't all she thought it would be. With charming text by Hilda Eunice Burgos and whimsical illustrations by Gaby D'Alessandro, The Cot in the Living Room is a celebration of the ways a Dominican American community takes care of one another while showing young readers that sometimes the best way to be a better neighbor is by imagining how it feels to spend a night sleeping on someone else's pillow.
The Force of Things
Author: Alexander Stille
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374709025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
A masterpiece of literary memory—a powerful exploration of the intersections of family, history, and memory "One evening in May 1948, my mother went to a party in New York with her first husband and left it with her second, my father." So begins the passionate and stormy union of Mikhail Kamenetzki, aka Ugo Stille, one of Italy's most celebrated journalists, and Elizabeth Bogert, a beautiful and charming young woman from the Midwest. The Force of Things follows two families across the twentieth century—one starting in czarist Russia, the other starting in the American Midwest—and takes them across revolution, war, fascism, and racial persecution, until they collide at mid-century. Their immediate attraction and tumultuous marriage is part of a much larger story: the mass migration of Jews from fascist-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a micro-story of that moment of cross-pollination that reshaped much of American culture and society. Theirs was an uneasy marriage between Europe and America, between Jew and WASP; their differences were a key to their bond yet a source of constant strife. Alexander Stille's The Force of Things is a powerful, beautifully written work with the intimacy of a memoir, the pace and readability of a novel, and the historical sweep and documentary precision of nonfiction writing at its best. It is a portrait of people who are buffeted about by large historical events, who try to escape their origins but find themselves in the grip of the force of things.
His Oldest Friend
Author: Sonny Kleinfield
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805080605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Previous Edition 9780323019149
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805080605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Previous Edition 9780323019149
Mr. Man
Author: Jerry Young
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595290930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Craig Mann's experiences with women and children over the years had not been good. Melissa Branson is a young widow with three small children, struggling to make her way in the world. When circumstances throw Craig into contact with Melissa when she becomes ill, he finds himself not only taking care of her and her children, but also falling in love with them, despite his reluctance to become involved.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595290930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Craig Mann's experiences with women and children over the years had not been good. Melissa Branson is a young widow with three small children, struggling to make her way in the world. When circumstances throw Craig into contact with Melissa when she becomes ill, he finds himself not only taking care of her and her children, but also falling in love with them, despite his reluctance to become involved.
Our Father
Author: Kevin Sweeney
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595171869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
It was the 1960’s, when good catholic women married for better or worst. When families kept their problems behind locked doors. Sometimes, no matter how hard they tried, their private lives still spilt out into the street. Hal is a little boy with a father who has a secret that is getting harder to hide by the second. The only way for Hal to save his family, is for his father to go away. But, that’s something that just won't happen.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595171869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
It was the 1960’s, when good catholic women married for better or worst. When families kept their problems behind locked doors. Sometimes, no matter how hard they tried, their private lives still spilt out into the street. Hal is a little boy with a father who has a secret that is getting harder to hide by the second. The only way for Hal to save his family, is for his father to go away. But, that’s something that just won't happen.
Darkness at Dawn
Author: Darrell Beebe
Publisher: Good Catch Publishing
ISBN: 1934635316
Category : Forgiveness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher: Good Catch Publishing
ISBN: 1934635316
Category : Forgiveness
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Bernice and the Georgian Bay Gold
Author: Jessica Outram
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1772603198
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it. Inspired by her beloved Mémèr’s stories of their Métis family’s adventures and hardships, Bernice takes the treasure map the stranger left behind and sets out in a rowboat with nothing more than her two dogs for company and the dream of changing her family’s fortunes forever.
Publisher: Second Story Press
ISBN: 1772603198
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
It's the summer of 1914. Eight-year-old Bernice lives with her family in a lighthouse on Georgian Bay. One day Bernice wakes up to find a stranger named Tom Thomson sleeping in their living room. When she overhears him talk about gold on a nearby island, Bernice is determined to find it. Inspired by her beloved Mémèr’s stories of their Métis family’s adventures and hardships, Bernice takes the treasure map the stranger left behind and sets out in a rowboat with nothing more than her two dogs for company and the dream of changing her family’s fortunes forever.
Year of the Rat
Author: Marc Anthony Richardson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 1573660574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 1573660574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
Cape Cod Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Keith's Magazine on Home Building
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description