Christmas On Jane Street

Author : Billy Romp,Wanda Urbanska
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062296214

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Christmas on Jane Street by Billy Romp,Wanda Urbanska Pdf

This “sweet tale” of a Vermont family’s annual trek to New York City to sell trees is “a cross between It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol” (USA Today). Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees on Jane Street in New York City. They arrive from Vermont the day after Thanksgiving and leave just in time to make it home for Christmas morning—and for a few weeks they transform a corner of the Big Apple into a Frank Capra-esque small town alive with heartwarming holiday spirit. A lovely, lovingly illustrated little gem of a book, this delightful tenth anniversary edition of a beloved Christmas classic tells the poignant, inspiring story of an unforgettable family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan and the warm, wide circle of friends who have welcomed them to the neighborhood. Christmas on Jane Street is about the transformative power of love—love of parent and child, of merchant and customer, of stranger and neighbor. The ideal Christmas story, it is about the lasting and profound difference that one person can make to a family and one family can make to a community. “A heartwarming story”—Newsday “A touching tale fragrant with the season . . . a special treat for those who love Christmas trees.” —Tampa Tribune

Author : Jane Christmas
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781553652403

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What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim by Jane Christmas Pdf

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic's warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on. After a week of squabbles, the group splinters and the real adventure begins. In vivid, witty style, she recounts her battles with loneliness, hallucinations of being joined by Steve Martin, as well as picturesque villages and even the fair-haired man. What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim is one trip neither the author nor the reader will forget.

Author : Jean Shepherd
Publisher : Crown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307768735

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A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd Pdf

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era Indiana has entered our imagination and our hearts with a force equal to It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. This edition of A Christmas Story gathers together in one hilarious volume the gems of autobiographical humor that Jean Shepherd drew upon to create this enduring film. Here is young Ralphie Parker’s shocking discovery that his decoder ring is really a device to promote Ovaltine; his mother and father’s pitched battle over the fate of a lascivious leg lamp; the unleashed and unnerving savagery of Ralphie’s duel in the show with the odious bullies Scut Farkas and Grover Dill; and, most crucially, Ralphie’s unstoppable campaign to get Santa—or anyone else—to give him a Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle. Who cares that the whole adult world is telling him, “You’ll shoot your eye out, kid”? The pieces that comprise A Christmas Story, previously published in the larger collections In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in its ability to warm the heart and tickle the funny bone.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194554659X

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Is It Christmas Yet? by Anonim Pdf

Is it Christmas Yet? Storybook Greetings

Author : Jane Christmas
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781553658009

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And Then There Were Nuns by Jane Christmas Pdf

“The best kind of memoir, revealing, refreshing, and reflective enough to make readers turn many of the questions on themselves.” —Booklist (starred review) With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun. Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is “nun material,” her long-term partner Colin, suddenly springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks on an extraordinary year-long adventure to four convents—one in Canada and three in the UK. In these communities of cloistered nuns and monks, she shares—and at times chafes and rails against—the silent, simple existence she has sought all of her life. Christmas takes this spiritual quest seriously, but her story is full of the candid insights, humorous social faux pas, profane outbursts, and epiphanies that make her books so relatable and popular. And Then There Were Nuns offers a seldom-seen look inside modern cloistered life, and it is sure to ruffle more than a few starched collars among the ecclesiastical set. “A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it.” —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically “In fluid and often playful prose, she introduces women and men (she spent a week at a monastery on the Isle of Wight) who have devoted their lives to prayer, including a skydiving 90-year-old nun.” —Maclean’s

Author : Marion Dane Bauer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442424166

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The Christmas Baby by Marion Dane Bauer Pdf

This beautiful retelling of the Nativity story that celebrates the timeless joy of Christmas and of welcoming a new baby into the world is now available as a Classic Board Book! Have you heard? A baby is coming! Our baby is here? When Mary and Joseph’s child was born, the good tidings spread from the animals in the manger, to the shepherds in the fields, to the kings in distant lands, and even to the angels in the heavens! Now every time a baby is born, we celebrate and people travel from far and wide to greet the new baby—because every new baby is a small miracle. Filled with lyrical text and lush illustrations, this Classic Board Book is the perfect gift for baby’s first Christmas!

Author : Jane O'Connor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062847260

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Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas by Jane O'Connor Pdf

Now available in paper-over-board, a beautiful Christmas picture book featuring Fancy Nancy! What could be fancier than Christmas? Presents with elegant wrapping paper, festive decorations, Christmas cookies with sprinkles—and who could forget the tree? After all, there is no such thing as too much tinsel. Ooh la la! This year, Nancy is especially excited about decorating the Christmas tree. She bought a brand-new sparkly tree topper with her own money and has been waiting for Christmas to come. But when things don't turn out the way Nancy planned, will Christmas still be splendiferous? In this merriest of stories from bestselling duo Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser, Nancy proves once again that a little fancying up can go a long, festive way! Perfect for fans of other fancy holiday picture books such as Eloise at Christmastime and Olivia Helps with Christmas.

Author : Marci Alborghetti
Publisher : Ideals Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques
ISBN : 0824947762

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The Christmas Glass by Marci Alborghetti Pdf

In the tradition of "The Christmas Shoes" and "A Christmas on Jane Street," this heartwarming story shows how, today as always, the Christmas miracle works its wonders in the human heart.

Author : Michael F. McCarthy Colonel USAF (Ret)
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781636611853

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Memories of a Jane Street Boy by Michael F. McCarthy Colonel USAF (Ret) Pdf

Memories of a Jane Street Boy By: Michael F. McCarthy Memories of a Jane Street Boy is the fictionalized version of the impact one family and special group of friends have had on the life of Michael McCarthy from his early childhood all the way through high school, their impressions and lessons having a lifetime effect. Predominately focused between the years of 1951 and 1969, Michael’s tale is one of friendships’ rites of passage, adventures and misadventures, successes and failures, love lost and love found, which transcends any era. Any person of any age can find commonality with his story of growing up and learning lessons and causing mischief along the way.

Author : Suzanne Strempek Shea
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807072592

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Shelf Life by Suzanne Strempek Shea Pdf

Suzanne Shea has always loved a good book-and she's written five of them, all acclaimed. In the course of her ten-year career, she's done a good bit of touring, including readings and drop-ins at literally hundreds of bookstores. She never visited one that wasn't memorable. Two years ago, while recovering from radiation therapy, Shea heard from a friend who was looking for help at her bookstore. Shea volunteered, seeing it as nothing more than a way to get out of her pajamas and back into the world. But over next twelve months, from St. Patrick's Day through Poetry Month, graduation/Father's Day/summer reading/Christmas and back again to those shamrock displays, Shea lived and breathed books in a place she says sells'ideas, stories, encouragement, answers, solace, validation, the basic ammunition for daily life.' Her work was briefly interrupted by an author tour that took her to other great bookstores. Descriptions of these and her memories of book-lined rooms reaching all the way back to childhood visits to the Bookmobile are scattered throughout this charming, humorous, and engrossing account of reading and rejuvenation. For anyone who loves books, and especially for anyone who has fallen under the spell of a special bookstore, Shelf Life will be required reading.

Author : Michael Ausiello
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501134968

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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Michael Ausiello Pdf

Television industry journalist Michael Ausiello tells the story of his final year with his partner of thirteen years, Kit Cowan--diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer--while revisiting the many memories that preceded it, and describes how their undeniably powerful bond carried them through all manner of difficulties, with humor always front and center of the relationship.

Author : Mitchell Duneier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466833036

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Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier Pdf

An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today's urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, its conflicts about class and race, and its surprising opportunities for empathy among strangers. Sidewalk is an excellent supplementary text for a range of courses: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY: Shows how to make important links between micro and macro; how a research project works; how sociology can transform common sense. RACE AND ETHNIC RELATIONS: Untangles race, class, and gender as they work together on the street. URBAN STUDIES: Asks how public space is used and contested by men and women, blacks and whites, rich and poor, and how street life and political economy interact. DEVIANCE: Looks at labeling processes in treatment of the homeless; interrogates the "broken windows" theory of policing. LAW AND SOCIETY: Closely examines the connections between formal and informal systems of social control. METHODS: Shows how ethnography works; includes a detailed methodological appendix and an afterword by research subject Hakim Hasan. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Sidewalk engages the rich terrain of recent developments regarding representation, writing, and authority; in the tradition of Elliot Liebow and Ulf Hannerz, it deals with age old problems of the social and cultural experience of inequality; this is a telling study of culture on the margins of American society. CULTURAL STUDIES: Breaking down disciplinary boundaries, Sidewalk shows how books and magazines are received and interpreted in discussions among working-class people on the sidewalk; it shows how cultural knowledge is deployed by vendors and scavengers to generate subsistence in public space. SOCIOLOGY OF CULTURE: Sidewalk demonstrates the connections between culture and human agency and innovation; it interrogates distinctions between legitimate subcultures and deviant collectivities; it illustrates conflicts over cultural diversity in public space; and, ultimately, it shows how conflicts over meaning are central to social life.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3000067

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Charities
ISBN : UIUC:30112086067144

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Annual Report of the Children's Aid Society by Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : SUSAN. MALLERY
Publisher : Mills & Boon
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848458274

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Christmas on 4th Street by SUSAN. MALLERY Pdf