Download or read book Street of Tall People written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the East End of London in 1936, this is the story of an unlikely friendship between a Jewish and a Gentile boy during the upsurge of fascist violence ledby Oswald Moseley and his Blackshirts. Jimmy and Benny are adversaries in a boxing match before they become friends. Jimmy lives in a tenament with his newly widowed mother; Benny comes from a large Orthodox Jewish family. The discovery that Jimmy's mother's new friend Mr Searleis a Blackshirt has a profound effect on their relationship and places Jimmy in an agonizing dilemna. A vivid and compelling story that raises issues that have many parallels today.
Download or read book The Tall Book written by Arianne Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the professional joys of earning more money, and having others perceive you as a natural leader. The Tall Book also offers well-researched explanations into the great unanswered questions of tallness, including: Why are people tall to begin with? How have tall people figured throughout history? Why are CEOs so tall? And how does tallness affect the dating game? Filled with illustrative graphics, charts, and piles of tall miscellanea and factoids, The Tall Book is a wonderful and much-needed exploration of life from on high.
Download or read book The Princess of 72nd Street written by Elaine Kraf and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Narrated in prose that is alternately concise and witty, lush and impressionistic, The Princess of 72nd Street tells the story of a struggling artist named Ellen who, subject to unexpected "radiances", becomes the free-spirited, anarchic Esmerelda, Princess of New York's Upper West Side.-- An accomplished artist and musician as well as a novelist, Elaine Kraf has been a recipient of many awards including two National Endowment for the Arts awards ('70 and '82).-- First published by New Directions ('79).
Download or read book Hurricane Street Rats of Aramoor Book 1 written by Michael Wisehart and published by Easthaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "The second book was even better than the first" - Fantasy Reviewer ★★★★★ "Ayrion is my new magical hero" - Fantasy Reviewer ★★★★★ "The world Wisehart creates is addictive" - Fantasy Reviewer ★★★★★ "Not just for young adults, but for all fantasy fans" - Fantasy Reviewer Being the best isn't always a good thing. . . . especially when you're raised by mercenaries. Banished from his home at thirteen, Ayrion makes his way to the capital city of Aramoor in hopes of starting a new life. With high aspirations of making a name for himself, he soon discovers how dangerous and unforgiving those streets can be. If there's one thing he's learned, it's the importance of choosing his friends wisely! Filled with action, adventure, mystery, and magic . . . with a healthy dose of humor thrown in for good measure. Perfect for the Whole family! ** The Street Rats of Aramoor series is a prequel to the Aldoran Chronicles saga.
Download or read book Jews and Jewishness in British Children s Literature written by Madelyn Travis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain’s longest standing minority communities. Representations in children’s literature influenced by the impact of the Enlightenment, the Empire, the Holocaust and 9/11 reveal an ongoing concern with establishing, maintaining or problematising the boundaries between Jews and Gentiles. Chapters on gender, refugees, multiculturalism and historical fiction argue that literature for young people demonstrates that the position of Jews in Britain has been ambivalent, and that this ambivalence has persisted to a surprising degree in view of the dramatic socio-cultural changes that have taken place over two centuries. Wide-ranging in scope and interdisciplinary in approach, Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature discusses over one hundred texts ranging from picture books to young adult fiction and realism to fantasy. Madelyn Travis examines rare eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material plus works by authors including Maria Edgeworth, E. Nesbit, Rudyard Kipling, Richmal Crompton, Lynne Reid Banks, Michael Rosen and others. The study also draws on Travis’s previously unpublished interviews with authors including Adele Geras, Eva Ibbotson, Ann Jungman and Judith Kerr.
Download or read book Tall Men Short Shorts written by Leigh Montville and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals! They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time - Bill Russell - and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals again. Russell’s opponent? The fearsome 7’1” next-generation superstar, Wilt Chamberlain, recently traded to the LA Lakers to form the league’s first dream team. Bill Russell and John Havlicek versus Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The 1969 Celtics are at the end of their dominance. The 1969 Lakers are unstoppable. Add to the mix one newly minted reporter. Covering the epic series is a wide-eyed young sports writer named Leigh Montville. Years before becoming an award-winning legend himself at The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, twenty-four-year-old Montville is ordered by his editor at the Globe to get on a plane to L.A. (first time!) to write about his luminous heroes, the biggest of big men. What follows is a raucous, colorful, joyous account of one of the greatest seven-game series in NBA history. Set against a backdrop of the late sixties, Montville’s reporting and recollections transport readers to a singular time – with rampant racial tension on the streets and on the court, with the emergence of a still relatively small league on its way to becoming a billion-dollar industry, and to an era when newspaper journalism and the written word served as the crucial lifeline between sports and sports fans. And there was basketball – seven breathtaking, see-saw games, highlight-reel moments from an unprecedented cast of future Hall of Famers (including player-coach Russell as the first-ever black head coach in the NBA), coast-to-coast travels and the clack-clack-clack of typewriter keys racing against tight deadlines. Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Leigh Montville has crafted his most entertaining book yet, richly enshrining luminous players and moments in a unique American time.
Download or read book A Conspiracy of Tall Men written by Noah Hawley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this "Catch-22" for a new generation, a conspiracy theorist unravels his own wife's suspicious death on a plane en route to Brazil--when he was under the impression she was visiting her mother in Chicago.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-25 with total page 200 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 The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-12-25 with total page 200 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 The Road written by David Strassler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-05 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay I discuss memories of some key past lives and an account of a Life Between Life regression. I also refer to past lives as personifications of the core self. Some refer to the core self as the higher self, that part of one's totality that accompanies you on your journey through the ages. But this is more than a compilation of memories of past lives. This is also an account of what I have brought in from these lives, how they have influenced me in this life.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1958-01-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Book of the Royal Blue written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nowhere Girl written by Cheryl Diamond and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this memoir that spans dozens of countries worldwide, a young girl and her family adopt one new identity after another and run from both the law and the secrets that will eventually catch up to all of them"--
Download or read book Short written by John Schwartz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different. When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage! Part advice book, part memoir, and part science primer, this fascinating book explores the marketing, psychology, and mythology behind our obsession with height and delivers a reassuring message to kids of all types that they can walk tall—whatever it is that makes them different. Short is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
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Download or read book Looking for Kathmandu written by David Stuart Ryan and published by kozmik press. This book was released on 2013-10-05 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel by David Stuart Ryan. Now available as an ebook (0 905116 05 4) A couple set out to look for Shangri-La and become immersed in the mysteries of the East. 'A well-written thoroughly enjoyable book evoking the romance and adventure of this last frontier. The overland trek is particularly well handled as you would expect from a seasoned round the world traveller.' Printer's Pie review.
