Author: Karen L. Schnitzspahn
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738563589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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In the 1800s, the 2.8 square miles in New Jersey known today as Little Silver consisted mostly of farms, woods, and saltwater marshes. Towards the turn of the century, John T. Lovett opened his famous nursery, and resort hotels began to spring up on the scenic Little Silver Point peninsula. In the 1890s, the construction of a dock for Patten Line steamboats at the end of the Point increased the volume of summer visitors. Separated from Shrewsbury Township in 1923, Little Silver has remained a prosperous and vibrant community over the years. The farms and nurseries have almost all been replaced by housing today, but residents find that their shrubs and backyard gardens grow beautifully on the fertile land. Over the years, many New York and northern New Jersey commuters have decided to make Little Silver their home, traveling by rail or auto to their jobs. Karen Schnitzspahn's Little Silver is a tribute to the peaceful but significant development of the borough from the 1880s to the 1970s.
Author: Jennie Dorothea Lindquist
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN: 9780844661902
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A story about a little girl and her Swedish grandparents.
Author: Karen L. Schnitzspahn
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738563596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Featuring many previously unpublished photographs, Little Silver Volume II explores the community's growth from the late-nineteenth century to the present. A companion to the first volume, this exciting collection of images harks back to the days when city dwellers traveled to Little Silver Point by steamboat to spend their summers. Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the incorporation of the Borough of Little Silver with this unique glimpse of times gone by. Included in the book are images from the Julia Parker collection, providing an in-depth look at the Parker homestead, which was willed to the Borough of Little Silver to be developed as a historic site. Also featured are the houses, schools, and recreational areas that contributed to the tranquility of this unique American community. Old timers will recall the stores and businesses that thrived in the middle of the century, and young readers will learn of the local heroes and world-famous people who lived in Little Silver. Parades, special events, and sporting activities are featured as well. Little Silver Volume II highlights the people and places that left a lasting impression on the history of the town.
Author: Marisa Silver
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698146808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A Huffington Post Book Club Suggestion • An O: The Oprah Magazine Fall Pick • A LitHub Book You Should Read This September • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated" for 2016 • 2017 Ohioana Book Award Winner in Fiction “Marisa Silver’s beguiling new novel Little Nothing is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our changeable bodies and our just as malleable identities…Silver’s storytelling skills are finely matched to her themes…meditative passages bloom with life.” —Matt Bell, The New York Times Book Review A stunning, provocative new novel from New York Times bestselling author Marisa Silver, Little Nothing is the story of a girl, scorned for her physical deformity, whose passion and salvation lie in her otherworldly ability to transform herself and the world around her. In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, stuns her parents and brings outrage and scorn from her community. Pavla has been born a dwarf, beautiful in face, but as the years pass, she grows no farther than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local charlatan, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates of persecution for Pavla. Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation in and out of human form, as an outcast girl becomes a hunted woman whose ultimate survival depends on the most startling transfiguration of them all. Woven throughout is the journey of Danilo, the young man entranced by Pavla, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions, and the adoption of industry and invention. With a cast of remarkable characters, a wholly original story, and extraordinary, page-turning prose, Marisa Silver delivers a novel of sheer electricity.
Author: Bille Hougart
Publisher: Tbr International
ISBN: 9780971120228
Category : Hallmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 459
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Author: Sky Banyes
Publisher: Castle Point Books
ISBN: 1250279569
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sky Banyes's The Little Book of Silver Linings will help you see beauty in even the messiest moments of life. No matter where you’re beginning or where you want to go, start right here, right now. There is hope and healing hidden in every challenge, no matter how difficult! Every day isn’t 100 percent clear and sunny, but when the inevitable dark clouds come into our lives, we can choose to focus on the glimmers of light peeking through all around us. The Little Book of Silver Linings brings you encouragement through art and words that meet you right where you are—without dismissing all the difficult feelings you may be going through. You need not linger in a dark place when there is shelter just ahead. - Find space to see possibility in the dark and growth through the rain - Take first steps toward healing from recent or past traumas - Discover all the strength you hold inside and the joy waiting for you in the world
Author: Joe Hill
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
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A Little Silver Book of Sharp Shiny Slivers collects some of Joe Hill’s most offbeat writing. Here he reflects on the end of the world, explains why horror fiction matters, and offers up his own rules for writing. The author encounters one of literature’s lesser known talking birds and checks in on the heroes of Heart-Shaped Box. All this and his very first published essay as Joe Hill, only recently rediscovered (it’s good!).
Author: JANE. GRIFFITHS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781780376127
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
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The recurrent themes of Little Silver are inheritance, loss, and the relationship between real and imagined lives. Moments of crisis prompt reflection on the stories we tell ourselves and on the sheer strangeness of existing in our bodies and in time.
Author: Florence Littauer
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN: 0849907209
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 137
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Florence Littauer tells us how to recognize and relate to people who are hurt and need help, offering a workable formula for exercising the gift of encouragement.
Author: Grace Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316317691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a mysterious boy who seems to have his own secrets to hide. Together, the two must face obstacles usually found only in legends to find the Luminous Stone and save Pinmei's grandmother--before it's too late. A fast-paced adventure that is extraordinarily written and beautifully illustrated, When the Sea Turned to Silver is a masterpiece companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky.
