Download or read book A Girl Grows Up in New York City written by and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIn A Girl Grows Up in New York City we meet a young child bargaining the price of apples with a street vendor. A smart blonde of German descent growing up in a traditional Italian neighborhood during WWII. An adolescent enduring the casual cruelty of her father and unwelcome advances from men on the street. A sister coaching her younger brother in the ways of the big city. This determined girl will grow up to become a nurse, a mother, and a teacher. She will earn her PhD in Nursing and mature into a barrier‑breaking professional woman. They are all Joan Heron. With unadorned honesty, wry humor, and not a trace of self‑pity, Joan takes the reader on a tour through her long, productive, and quietly extraordinary life.@ Sabrina Verney ‑ author of Xtul: an experience of The Process AThe streets of New York City in the 1930's and 40's were not always welcoming and friendly. These streets were Joan Heron's playground, her classroom, and she explored this urban jungle without fear as she grew in mind and spirit determined to live her dreams. Earthy and well crafted.@ Daniel Burch Fiddler ‑ author of Beyond the Shadow of my Pagoda.
Download or read book Invisible Child written by Andrea Elliott and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott “From its first indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion, Invisible Child had me, by turns, stricken, inspired, outraged, illuminated, in tears, and hungering for reimmersion in its Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Library Journal In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter “to protect those who I love.” When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize • Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Download or read book A Girl Grows Up in New York City Paperback written by Joan Heron and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Girl Grows Up in New York City we meet a young child bargaining the price of apples with a street vendor. A smart blonde of German descent growing up in a traditional Italian neighborhood during WWII. An adolescent enduring the casual cruelty of her father and unwelcome advances from men on the street. A sister coaching her younger brother in the ways of the big city. This determined girl will grow up to become a nurse, a mother, and a teacher. She will earn her PhD in Nursing and mature into a barrier-breaking professional woman. They are all Joan Heron. With unadorned honesty, wry humor, and not a trace of self-pity, Joan takes the reader on a tour through her long, productive, and quietly extraordinary life. Sabrina Verney - author of Xtul: an experience of The Process ""The streets of New York City in the 1930's and 40's were not always welcoming and friendly. These streets were Joan Heron's playground, her classroom, and she explored this urban jungle without fear as she grew in mind and spirit determined to live her dreams. Earthy and well crafted."" Daniel Burch Fiddler - author of Beyond the Shadow of my Pagoda.
Download or read book Late Migrations written by Margaret Renkl and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book A Girl Grows Up in New York City Large Print Edition written by Joan Heron and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Girl Grows Up in New York City we meet a young child bargaining the price of apples with a street vendor. A smart blonde of German descent growing up in a traditional Italian neighborhood during WWII. An adolescent enduring the casual cruelty of her father and unwelcome advances from men on the street. A sister coaching her younger brother in the ways of the big city. This determined girl will grow up to become a nurse, a mother, and a teacher. She will earn her PhD in Nursing and mature into a barrier-breaking professional woman. They are all Joan Heron. With unadorned honesty, wry humor, and not a trace of self-pity, Joan takes the reader on a tour through her long, productive, and quietly extraordinary life. Sabrina Verney - author of Xtul: an experience of The Process ""The streets of New York City in the 1930's and 40's were not always welcoming and friendly. These streets were Joan Heron's playground, her classroom, and she explored this urban jungle without fear as she grew in mind and spirit determined to live her dreams. Earthy and well crafted."" Daniel Burch Fiddler - author of Beyond the Shadow of my Pagoda.
Download or read book A Girl Grows Up in New York City written by Joan Heron and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Girl Grows Up in New York City we meet a young child bargaining the price of apples with a street vendor. A smart blonde of German descent growing up in a traditional Italian neighborhood during WWII. An adolescent enduring the casual cruelty of her father and unwelcome advances from men on the street. A sister coaching her younger brother in the ways of the big city. This determined girl will grow up to become a nurse, a mother, and a teacher. She will earn her PhD in Nursing and mature into a barrier-breaking professional woman. They are all Joan Heron. With unadorned honesty, wry humor, and not a trace of self-pity, Joan takes the reader on a tour through her long, productive, and quietly extraordinary life." Sabrina Verney - author of Xtul: an experience of The Process "The streets of New York City in the 1930's and 40's were not always welcoming and friendly. These streets were Joan Heron's playground, her classroom, and she explored this urban jungle without fear as she grew in mind and spirit determined to live her dreams. Earthy and well crafted." Daniel Burch Fiddler - author of Beyond the Shadow of my Pagoda.
Download or read book A Girl Grows Up in New York City Hollywood Talent written by Joan Heron and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In A Girl Grows Up in New York City we meet a young child bargaining the price of apples with a street vendor. A smart blonde of German descent growing up in a traditional Italian neighborhood during WWII. An adolescent enduring the casual cruelty of her father and unwelcome advances from men on the street. A sister coaching her younger brother in the ways of the big city. This determined girl will grow up to become a nurse, a mother, and a teacher. She will earn her PhD in Nursing and mature into a barrier-breaking professional woman. "They are all Joan Heron. With unadorned honesty, wry humor, and not a trace of self-pity, Joan takes the reader on a tour through her long, productive, and quietly extraordinary life." --Sabrina Verney, author of Xtul: an experience of The Process "The streets of New York City in the 1930's and 40's were not always welcoming and friendly. These streets were Joan Heron's playground, her classroom, and she explored this urban jungle without fear as she grew in mind and spirit determined to live her dreams. Earthy and well crafted." Daniel Burch Fiddler - author of Beyond the Shadow of my Pagoda.
Download or read book Growing Up America written by Susan Eckelmann Berghel and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.
Download or read book American Cool written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool? These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely and engaging volume. American Cool focuses extensively on the transition decades, from the erosion of Victorianism in the 1920s to the solidification of a cool culture in the 1960s. Beyond describing the characteristics of the new directions and how they altered or amended earlier standards, the book seeks to explain why the change occured. It then assesses some of the outcomes and longer-range consequences of this transformation.
Download or read book Loving Our Addicted Daughters Back to Life written by Linda Dahl and published by Central Recovery Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to address crucial factors in the diagnosis and treatment of young, addicted women, written especially for parents.
Download or read book All the People written by Joy Hakim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of America from the earliest times of the Native Americans to the Clinton administration.
Download or read book All About the Girl written by Anita Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays cover girlhood around the world and cover such key areas as schooling, sexuality, popular culture and identity.
Download or read book Super 10 Sample Papers for CBSE Class 10 English Language Literature 2nd Edition written by Disha Experts and published by Disha Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorations of Spirituality in American Women s Literature written by Scarlett Cunningham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women’s spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature treats aging and spirituality as major, connected themes. It demonstrates that such literature interacts meaningfully with feminist theology, social science research on aging and body image, attachment theory, and narrative identity theory. The book provides an interdisciplinary context for the relationship between aging and spirituality in order to confirm that US women’s writing provides unique illustrations of the interconnections between aging and spirituality signaled by other fields. This book demonstrates that relationships between the human and divine remain a consistent and valuable feature of contemporary women’s literature and that the divine–human relationship is under constant literary revision.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-03-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Girl Wide Web written by Sharon R. Mazzarella and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the rapidly growing presence of girls online, serious academic inquiry into the relationship between girls and the Internet is imperative. Girl Wide Web is an innovative collection of cutting-edge research exploring a wide sweep of issues related to the ways adolescent girls interact with the Internet. Employing a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives primarily within cultural studies, the authors examine a variety of topics - from instant messaging and web-diaries to online fan communities and Internet advertising that targets young girls. Taken together, these essays provide a rich portrait of the complex relationship among girls, the Internet, and the negotiation of identity.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1982-10-04 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
