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Book Brooklyn Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Rinaldi
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2006-05-01
  • ISBN : 0547351542
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Brooklyn Rose written by Ann Rinaldi and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, a fifteen-year-old Southern girl marries and moves to the unfamiliar world of Brooklyn. It’s 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She’s left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York—a move that is both scary and exciting. As mistress of the large Victorian estate on Dorchester Road, she must learn to make decisions, establish her independence, and run an efficient household. These tasks are difficult enough without the added complication of barely knowing her husband. As romance blossoms and Rose begins to find her place, she discovers that strength of character does not come easily—but is essential for happiness. Writing in diary form, Ann Rinaldi paints a sensual picture of time and place—and gives readers an intimate glimpse into the heart of a child as she becomes a woman. “Rinaldi describes the teen’s first year of marriage with grace, tact, and sensitivity.” —School Library Journal “Fans of romance will be swept up in the subtleties of her courtship by Rene, and readers will likely identify with Rose as she balances the natural impulses of a teenager with her new role as mistress of the house.” —Publishers Weekly A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age

Book Brooklyn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colm Toibin
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2010-04-06
  • ISBN : 0771085400
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Brooklyn written by Colm Toibin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.

Book A Brooklyn Rose

Download or read book A Brooklyn Rose written by Suzanna Lonchar and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2003-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Finazzo family traveled from Sicily to America in search of the fabled “American Dream,” only to find poverty, tragedies, prison, death, and even murder. It was the era of prohibition, speakeasies, and later The Great Depression...gangsters, racketeers, and the mafia that corrupted the neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where they migrated. This true story tells how each family member was affected by this extraordinary environment. Rosie leads you through her many heart-wrenching, yet hilarious, adventures as she struggles to survive on the streets of Brooklyn. At age ten her character is hardened by poverty, murder, death, hunger, and the sound of screams from her mother’s pain as she suffers with cancer. Rosie steals to eat, cusses, smokes and boxes. Imagine living next door to the famous Bonnano family, or being held hostage by a gangster during a shoot-out, or hiding Al Capone’s guns in your shoeshine box. This story lets you enter a world where extraordinary circumstances were merely everyday events.

Book Brooklyn Roses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Gigante-Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Brooklyn Roses written by Catherine Gigante-Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn Roses, the third and final installment of The El Trilogy, follows the travails and triumphs of that loud, loving Italian-American family from Borough Park. The riveting story picks up more than a dozen years after The Bells of Brooklyn, in the turbulent late 1950s/early 1960s. It weaves an unforgettable tale that encompasses forbidden love, illicit crime, joyous celebrations, heartbreaking tragedies-and the intricacies of life itself. Are we destined to repeat the sins of our fathers or forge a different road? It's all there-beloved new characters, tried-and-true favorites and that captivating combination of folklore, food and family that's become a Gigante-Brown trademark.

Book Viva  Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Krawitz
  • Publisher : Holiday House
  • Release : 2017-04-12
  • ISBN : 0823438287
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Viva Rose written by Susan Krawitz and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Rose takes on the wild west, outlaws, and the strict rules of the early 1900s. When Rose Solomon's brother, Abe, left El Paso, he told the family he was heading to Brooklyn. But Rose discovers the truth the day she picks up the newspaper at Pickens General Store and spies a group photograph captioned The Southwestern Scourge of 1915! There stands Abe alongside none other than Pancho Villa and his army! Rose is furious about Abe's lie; fearful for his safety; and worried about her traditional parents who, despite their strict and observant ways, do not deserve to have an outlaw for a son. Rose knows the only way to set things right is to get Abe home, but her clandestine plan to contact him goes awry when she is kidnapped by Villa's revolutionaries and taken to his hideaway. Deep in the desert, amidst a richly rendered assortment of freedom-seekers that includes an impassioned young reporter, two sharp-shooting sisters with a secret past, and Dorotea, Villa's tyrannical young charge, Rose sees no sign of Abe and has no hope of release. But as she learns to lie, hide, and ride like a bandit, Rose discovers the real meaning of freedom and what she's willing to risk to get hers back. A Sydney Taylor Honor book A National Jewish Book Award finalist

Book February House

Download or read book February House written by Sherill Tippins and published by HMH. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World). A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers—and America’s best-known burlesque performer—in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a fevered yearlong party, fueled by the appetites of youth and a shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before the country entered World War II. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers’s two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom. W. H. Auden—who, along with Benjamin Britten, was being excoriated back in England for absenting himself from the war—presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while, he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, this tale of daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century comes from the acclaimed author of Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel. “Brimming with information . . . The personalities she depicts [are] indelibly drawn.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Magnificent . . . Not to mention funny and raunchy.” —The Seattle Times

Book Brooklyn Before

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Robbins
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-15
  • ISBN : 1501726773
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Brooklyn Before written by Tom Robbins and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy borough we know today. In Brooklyn Before, Racioppo lets us see the vitality of his native Brooklyn, stretching from historic Park Slope to the beginnings of Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park. His black and white photographs pull us deep into the community, stretching our memories back more than forty years and teasing out the long-lost recollections of life on the streets and in apartment homes. Racioppo has the fascinating ability to tell a story in one photograph and, because of his native bona fides, he depicts an intriguing set of true Brooklyn stories from the inside, in ways that an outsider simply cannot. On the pages of, Brooklyn Before the intimacy and roughness of life in a working-class community of Irish American, Italian American, and Puerto Rican families is shown with honesty and insight. Racioppo's 128 photographs are paired with essays from journalist Tom Robbins and art critic and curator Julia Van Haaften. Taken together, the images and words of Brooklyn Before return us to pre-gentrification Brooklyn and immerse us in a community defined by work, family, and ethnic ties.

Book The Art   Practice of Spiritual Herbalism

Download or read book The Art Practice of Spiritual Herbalism written by Karen M. Rose and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism, written by leading Black herbalist Karen Rose, addresses herbalism and medicine making from the perspective of diasporic ancestral traditions.

Book What Big Teeth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rose Szabo
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • Release : 2021-02-02
  • ISBN : 0374314314
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book What Big Teeth written by Rose Szabo and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Strand February 2021 Book of the Month "With a layered mystery, a haunting setting, and thrilling tension, What Big Teeth has an otherness to it that pulls you in and forces you to keep reading." —Tricia Levenseller, Publisher’s Weekly-bestselling author of The Shadows Between Us Eleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds. Eleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together—in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her. Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark fantasy novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. This exquisitely terrifying and beautiful tale will sink its teeth into you and never let go.

Book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Download or read book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn written by Betty Smith and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francie Nolan and her brother, Neeley, grow up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early 1900s.

Book Banana Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natalie Goldberg
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2011-07-26
  • ISBN : 1453224580
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Banana Rose written by Natalie Goldberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Writing Down the Bones: This novel about a Brooklyn-born woman’s self-reinvention in Taos, New Mexico, “explodes with wit and vision” (Indianapolis News). Nell Schwartz is a Brooklyn-born Jewish girl who reinvents herself in the communes of Taos, renaming herself Banana Rose—because she’s “bananas.” But Nell struggles with her inner fears and desires, the demands of the artist’s life, and the irrepressible call of home. While living in New Mexico, Nell falls in love with and marries a free-spirited horn player named Gauguin. They travel east to experience city life, and then to the Midwest to be closer to family, but their tempestuous relationship cools as Nell’s free-spiritedness and Jewishness seem under constant scrutiny. For solace, Nell turns to her friend Anna, a writer who teaches Nell what it means to be an artist. Nell is slowly transformed by love, loss, and art, gaining a new sense of self. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Natalie Goldberg, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Book Fight the Funk and Slay in Everyway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arie Rose
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 9781979938693
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Fight the Funk and Slay in Everyway written by Arie Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Quick Guide to "Fight the Funk" & Slay In Everyway equips you with everything you need to snap out of any funk you are in. Are you feeling lost, like you are missing a piece to get to the next step? Are you tired of not living up to your full potential? This book will not only help you analyze where you are and what you really want in life but it will show you things you can do to start living that life. This interactive guide includes: A reality check, habits to cultivate, journal entries at the end of every chapter to help you think and analyze where you could be going wrong, and more

Book Nevada Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marc McAndrews
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781884167157
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Nevada Rose written by Marc McAndrews and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered around the state of Nevada in unassuming little desert towns, prostitution is thriving. Nevada Rose is an extraordinary peephole into this legal, albeit secretive, world of fantasy and theatre, which takes readers inside the 29 'ranches' in and around towns. Readers will meet the managers and the madams, the kitchens and the cooks, laundry rooms and lounges, personal bedrooms and pets.

Book Pret a Party

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lela Rose
  • Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
  • Release : 2015-09-29
  • ISBN : 0847846296
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Pret a Party written by Lela Rose and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion designer Lela Rose presents an inspiring manifesto for creative and stylish twenty-first-century entertaining. Known for her whimsical fashions, Lela Rose is also a popular and passionate hostess. From the spirited Couples’ Cook-off to a kid-friendly “Primp Your Ride” bike picnic, to an elegant Silver-and-White Christmas dinner, in this book she presents dozens of creative ideas to inspire readers looking for a fresh take on entertaining. Rose’s philosophy is simple: create your own occasions to create your own fun. The themes, colors, seasonality, and activities she concocts for each of her parties show you to how dazzle guests with simple yet unexpected touches. Modernize the traditional bridal shower with a refreshingly retro sewing circle. Turn a ladies’ tea on its head by having girlfriends over for an afternoon tequila tasting. Celebrate your favorite cause by hosting a festive outdoor supper, like the one featured on a Brooklyn rooftop garden. Featuring unique ideas for decoration, recipes for cocktails and key dishes, and tips for throwing everything together in an easy and enjoyable way, Prêt-a-Party will be embraced by a new generation of hosts and hostesses seeking spirited and unconventional good times.

Book A Rose Grew in Brooklyn

Download or read book A Rose Grew in Brooklyn written by Rose Esther Fox and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Italians of Brooklyn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marianna Biazzo Randazzo
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 1467127841
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Italians of Brooklyn written by Marianna Biazzo Randazzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn, or "Bruculinu," as many Italians affectionately pronounced it, is where Italian values, culture, and dreams thrived. In an era when over four million Italians found their way to America, the first significant influx came during the 1880s, primarily from rural peasant communities fleeing poverty and overpopulation. Although Italians in South Brooklyn have been traced back as far as the 1820s, most settled in Manhattan. The 1855 New York Census did not list any Italian natives in Brooklyn; however, by 1890, there were 9,563 Italians residing in the borough. By 1900, Brooklyn's Italian population was second only to Manhattan. Although the last notable wave of Italian immigration ended in the 1960s, Italian remains one of the six prevalent foreign languages in New York according to a 2007 census estimate. This work serves as a time capsule to remind us of the contributions and influences these immigrants have offered to the community.

Book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the Museums

Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the Museums written by Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: