Download or read book An Orphaned Visitor written by Michael James Moscrop and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having encountered a quaint little village located deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, Eli Walker and Marishka Taranova think they have found the perfect retreat to hide away their darkest secrets. Little do they know that the isolated town of Woodland Point is concealing a few secrets of its own, and they are slowly beginning to come to light. A series of haunting disturbances wreak havoc in the once quiet locale, and as a former constable, Eli is in a race against time to uncover the secrets whilst struggling with his own, in this nineteenth century chilling mystery novel.

Download or read book After Visiting Friends written by Michael Hainey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A decade in the writing, the haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. Michael Hainey had just turned six when his uncle knocked on his family's back door one morning with the tragic news: Bob Hainey, Michael's father, was found alone near his car on Chicago's North Side, dead, of an apparent heart attack. Thirty-five years old, a young assistant copy desk chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Bob was a bright and shining star in the competitive, hard-living world of newspapers, one that involved booze-soaked nights that bled into dawn. And then suddenly he was gone, leaving behind a young widow, two sons, a fractured family--and questions surrounding the mysterious nature of his death that would obsess Michael throughout adolescence and long into adulthood. Finally, roughly his father's age when he died, and a seasoned reporter himself, Michael set out to learn what happened that night. Died after visiting friends, the obituaries said. But the details beyond that were inconsistent. What friends? Where? At the heart of his quest is Michael's all-too-silent, opaque mother, a woman of great courage and tenacity--and a steely determination not to look back. Prodding and cajoling his relatives, and working through a network of his father's buddies who abide by an honor code of silence and secrecy, Michael sees beyond the long-held myths and ultimately reconciles the father he'd imagined with the one he comes to know--and in the journey discovers new truths about his mother. A stirring portrait of a family and its legacy of secrets, After visiting friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book An Orphan in New York City written by Seymour Siegel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-08-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Orphan in New York City is about survival. During the Great Depression families who suffered loss of income, loss of health, and loss of life sought frantically for ways to survive. Social Security, Housing and Urban Development, Public Assistance, and Public Health programs available today were limited or non-existent back then. All extended family members helped out as much as they could. When this was not enough, the only choice was to break up the family. Benevolent Jews had established orphanages to care for children left homeless or in poverty. The largest of these orphanages was the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, better known as the HOA or The Home, located between 136th to 138th Streets on Amsterdam Avenue across from the Lewisohn Stadium of the City College of New York City. From 1929 to 1939 the HOA housed more than one thousand boys and girls at a time. The Hebrew Orphan Asylum was referred to as a city within a city as it was basically self-contained. Not only where there the essentials of residential life-- dormitories, a kitchen, a dining room, an infirmary, a dental clinic, and a laundry--but also a public school 192, a synagogue, and a religious school. Then too there were a bakery, a shoe shop, a tailor shop, a barber shop, a clothing store, a candy store, a woodworking room, a sewing room, a photography studio and darkroom, a boys scout room, a band room, a choir room, athletic fields and playgrounds. There was a Reception House, the Main Building, the Warner Brothers Gymnasium (state of the art at that time), and buildings for boilers for heating. It had its own transportation system and a fire engine. There were military bands and drill squads, fraternities and sororities, as well as baseball, basketball, and football teams that competed with other orphanages and the junior varsity at City College. Orphans, half orphans, and children from broken families began their shared institutional lives at the Reception House where they were isolated for two weeks to assure they did not bring any contagious disease or illness into the institution. The author was one of those with a family destroyed by alcoholism and poverty who had to leave his family at the age of nine and begin an orphan's life. He writes: "Having seen, from my top-floor perch in the Reception House, children who were playing on the huge field below, and having listened to the marching band and watched the military drills, I was looking forward to moving to the Main Building. But when I finally got there I felt lost in the labyrinth of hallways and doorways, and among the masses of children who were coming and going. Outside, in the courtyard, were more than 100 children talking, shouting and playing together. One of my first memories there is of hearing a short rotund man suddenly shout above that babble of voices: "All Steeeeeeeeeel!" All Still. What that meant only became clear when, as I watched, most of the children froze in their places and stopped talking. One child did not freeze. The man with the powerful voice strode over to him and slapped him so hard across the face that the child fell down.In the years that I would be in the orphanage, that and similar examples made me obey the "All Still!" and always appear to be following commands, rules, and regulations, even when I wasn't obeying. What I witnessed there, day after day, also reinforced my hopeless and helpless feeling that there were immense forces beyond my control: my father's rage, my separation, my placement in an institutional environment, and the subsequent abuse in that environment. I wept within myself, and there was no adult at the institution to comfort me, not the first day nor the last." For his own healing, Dr. Siegel has written a book about his decade during the depression years in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum

Download or read book Sabbath Visitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sparkling Gems from the Greek written by Rick Renner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Renner unearths a rich treasure trove of truths in his remarkable devotional. Drawing from an extensive study of both the English Bible and New Testament Greek, Rick illuminates 365 passages with more than 1,285 in-depth Greek word studies. Far from intellectualizing, he blends his solid instruction with practical applications and refreshing insights. Find challenge, reassurance, comfort, and reminders of God's abiding love and healing every day of the year.

Download or read book Orphan Train Girl written by Christina Baker Kline and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young readers’ edition of Christina Baker Kline’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel Orphan Train follows a twelve-year-old foster girl who forms an unlikely bond with a ninety-one-year-old woman. Adapted and condensed for a young audience, Orphan Train Girl includes an author’s note and archival photos from the orphan train era. This book is especially perfect for mother/daughter reading groups. Molly Ayer has been in foster care since she was eight years old. Most of the time, Molly knows it’s her attitude that’s the problem, but after being shipped from one family to another, she’s had her fair share of adults treating her like an inconvenience. So when Molly’s forced to help an a wealthy elderly woman clean out her attic for community service, Molly is wary. But from the moment they meet, Molly realizes that Vivian isn’t like any of the adults she’s encountered before. Vivian asks Molly questions about her life and actually listens to the answers. Soon Molly sees they have more in common than she thought. Vivian was once an orphan, too—an Irish immigrant to New York City who was put on a so-called "orphan train" to the Midwest with hundreds of other children—and she can understand, better than anyone else, the emotional binds that have been making Molly’s life so hard. Together, they not only clear boxes of past mementos from Vivian’s attic, but forge a path of friendship, forgiveness, and new beginnings.

Download or read book Home and School Visitor written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Handy book for Visitors of the Poor in London with Chapters on Poor Law Sanitary Law and Charities written by Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Authentic Visitors Guide to the World s Columbian Exposition and Chicago written by Richard J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Workhouse Visiting Society written by Workhouse Visiting Society and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brief Narrative of Facts Relative to the Orphan Houses to the New Orphan Houses on Ashley Down Bristol and Other Objects of the Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad written by Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad (Bristol) and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hand book for Friendly Visitors Among the Poor written by Charity Organization Society of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hand Book for Friendly Visitors Among the Poor written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Download or read book Visitors to the Inner Earth written by Professor Solomon and published by Top Hat Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales (or so it was claimed) of subterranean journeys* King Herla in the cavern of the dwarfs* Enkidu and his descent into Sheol* Orpheus and Aeneas in Hades* Sir Owen in Purgatory* Cuchulain in Tir-nan-Og* Reuben and the mikvah stairway* Reverend Kirk and his abduction* Richard Shaver and the Deros* Saint-Yves d'Alveydre in Agharta* Thomas the Rhymer in Fairyland* Olaf Jansen and the polar opening* Apollonius of Tyana in the Abode of the Wise Men* Lobsang Rampa beneath the Himalayas* Doreal and the mysteries of Mount Shasta* Guy Ballard and the Ascended Masters* Captain Seaborn and his voyage to Symzonia* Walter Siegmeister and the Atlantean tunnels* Dianne Robbins and the Library of PorthologosAnd other visitors to the hidden depths of the earth.

Download or read book New York Visitor and Lady s Album written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State Prisons Hospitals Soldiers Homes and Orphan Schools Controlled by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Manual for Visitors Among the Poor written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: