Friends Of The Family

Author : Tommy Dades,Michael Vecchione,David Fisher
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780061876325

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Friends of the Family by Tommy Dades,Michael Vecchione,David Fisher Pdf

“One of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city.” —New York Times Friends of the Family is a look deep inside the most notorious case to rock the NYPD: The story of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, the two police detectives who moonlighted as mob hit men. As told by Tommy Dades and Michael Vecchione—the cop and District Attorney investigator who solved New York’s coldest case—along with co-writer David Fisher, Friends of the Family is shocking true crime in the tradition of Nicolas Pileggi’s Wiseguys and Underboss by Peter Mass—a chilling, in-depth examination of what the New York Daily News calls “the worst betrayal of the badge in the NYPD’s history.”

Author : Lauren Grodstein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fathers and sons
ISBN : 9780099533351

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A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein Pdf

After his best friend's daughter, Laura, sets her sights on his son, Alec, Pete Dizinoff sees his plans for a perfect son not just unraveling but being destroyed completely and sets out to derail the romance.

Author : D. Lea Jacobs
Publisher : Howells House
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0929590198

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Friend of the Family by D. Lea Jacobs Pdf

Jacobs writes historical fiction under a different name, but here tries his hand at nonfiction to tell the story of Ed Robb, one of the first and most successful FBI undercover agents to work against the Mafia organized crime network. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : George K. Behlmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0804733139

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Friends of the Family by George K. Behlmer Pdf

This book seeks to explain what a reverence for "family values" meant in practice for the Western world's most family-conscious culture. Victorian England can be credited with inventing the ideal of the home inviolate, an ideal best condensed in the notion that "an Englishman's home is his castle". It was during this period that the family emerged as a subject of continuous discussion by politicians and of intervention by middle-class reformers. The discussion tended to address specific problems -- domestic violence, juvenile criminality, and the fate of illegitimate children, among others -- rather than focusing on the family as a whole. The reformers not only set the agenda of family-focused debates but also supplied the leadership for a vast array of interventionist groups -- philanthropists, civil servants, magistrates, medical practitioners, educators, and child psychologists -- whose common goal was to save the family, especially the working-class family, from itself. Thus this book shows that long before the building of a modern welfare state, English homes had become targets of regulation: the Englishman's castle possessed neither moat nor drawbridge. It also reveals the extent to which working-class parents participated in a cultural "policing" process; the Victorian poor were never the inert lump of humanity that many contemporaries, and some modern scholars, have supposed. Nor did the weight of schemes to regulate and elevate family conduct fall exclusively on the poor. The book demonstrates that middle-class reformers were not shy about dictating the terms of good parenting to their own class. Charting the origins, elaborations, and limitations of the concept of theideal home is no antiquarian exercise, for the social policy implications bound up with the myth of family privacy persist today. Intellectual critics of the "therapeutic state" such as Christopher Lasch and Michel Foucault hold that the rise of tutelary "experts" -- from social workers to public health inspectors and juvenile court judges -- has subverted parental autonomy. Similarly, populist conservative politicians in both England and the United States attack "welfarist" social programs because they appear to undercut the sense of individual responsibility that allegedly once flourished during a golden age of family strength.

Author : Lisa Jewell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141916231

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A Friend of the Family by Lisa Jewell Pdf

THE EMOTIONALLY GRIPPING BESTSELLER FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED AND THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS 'A heart-warming page-turner from start to finish' Heat 'Terrific stuff: touching, funny and sentient' Sunday Times A stranger in your home can only mean trouble . . . ________ The London family is in crisis. Newly-divorced Tony is fantasising about someone he shouldn't. Prize-winning writer Sean has a hot new girlfriend, and a dose of writer's block. Their brother Ned has just come back from Australia, leaving his girlfriend behind. And now they have a new lodger - a mysterious stranger. But is he the friend this family needs, or a troublemaker they could do without? ________ 'Funny and emotionally satisfying' The Times 'Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction' Glamour

Author : Elaine Weiss
Publisher : Volcano Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 188424422X

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Family & Friends' Guide to Domestic Violence by Elaine Weiss Pdf

Offers practical answers to extraordinarily complex questions raised by abuse. Provides a checklist of warning signs of domestic abuse.

Author : Anita Brookner
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307826237

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Family and Friends by Anita Brookner Pdf

In an ambitious departure from her usual form, Anita Brookner expands her canvas in Family and Friends to create a richly textured novel about the life of a wealthy Jewish family in London, focusing on the generation that came to maturity between the two World Wars. Presiding over the Dorn household is the formidable Sofka, an elegant and circumspect widow who watches as her four children find their way into adulthood. Frederick, the sybaritic eldest son, escapes to the comforts of the Riviera while stern, dutiful Alfred runs the family business and burns with unrealized longings; Betty—pleasure-loving, vain, and selfish—makes her ambitious way from Paris to Hollywood, leaving her dreamy, passive sister Mimi to languish at home. A brilliant social novel of lost innocence and the complex nature of family bonds, Family and Friends meticulously portrays the emotional cost of everyday life.

Author : Robie H. Harris
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763658632

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It's Not the Stork! by Robie H. Harris Pdf

From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies — a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence. Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls' and boys' bodies the same and why are some parts different? How was I made? Where do babies come from? Is it true that a stork brings babies to mommies and daddies? IT'S NOT THE STORK! helps answer these endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began. Through lively, comfortable language and sensitive, engaging artwork, Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley address readers in a reassuring way, mindful of a child's healthy desire for straightforward information. Two irresistible cartoon characters, a curious bird and a squeamish bee, provide comic relief and give voice to the full range of emotions and reactions children may experience while learning about their amazing bodies. Vetted and approved by science, health, and child development experts, the information is up-to-date, age-appropriate, and scientifically accurate, and always aimed at helping kids feel proud, knowledgeable, and comfortable about their own bodies, about how they were born, and about the family they are part of.

Author : Naomi Simmons,Oxford University Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0194808424

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Family & Friends. Level 4. Class Book. Per la Scuola Elementare. Con Espansione Online by Naomi Simmons,Oxford University Press Pdf

Author : Lisa Wingate
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984819895

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The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. “An absorbing historical . . . enthralling.”—Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

Author : Naomi Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : English language
ISBN : 019481212X

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Family and Friends 2 Classbook by Naomi Simmons Pdf

Family and Friends offers a carefully graded approach to reading, writing and literacy skills in English to young learners.No other course offers you the same benefits as Family and Friends.The exceptionally strong skills training programme includes a focus on real speaking and writing output.Plus - the amazing package of integrated print and digital resources suits all teaching situations and learner types, supporting students, teachers, and parents.Use it with Little Friends and First Friends to make it an eight or nine-year course.

Author : Maureen Carlson
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0891349278

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Family and Friends in Polymer Clay by Maureen Carlson Pdf

You can make character dolls and whimsical figures from polymer clay!. Make friends with polymer clay - and family too! In this delightful, light-hearted book, Maureen Carlson will teach you how to sculpt unique clay figures of your favorite people. You'll find everything you need to have fun and success - including a complete description of tools and supplies; general techniques for creating faces and bodies; and tricks for recreating the specific moods, expressions and features that capture the essence of a particular person. Before you know it, you'll be creating clay caricatures that are "almost real," full of personality, and guaranteed to make you smile!

Author : Nella Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Indian youth
ISBN : 097367699X

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Welcome Family and Friends to Our Bighouse and Our Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw Potlatch by Nella Nelson Pdf

"This contemporary story is told through the voice of a 12-year-old Kwakwaka'wakw girl named Gana, who lives in 'Yalis (Alert Bay, BC). From the time she is little, Gana attends Potlatches and ceremonies in the Bighouse. The regalia she wears--a button blanket, dancing apron and masks--were designed and made for her based on her family origins or clans. The ancient cultural teachings she learns in the Bighouse are useful to Gana in her everyday life and continue to have value in the 21st century"--

Author : Eleanor A. Hubbard,Cameron T. Whitley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Female-to-male transsexuals
ISBN : 148010647X

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Trans-kin by Eleanor A. Hubbard,Cameron T. Whitley Pdf

"Trans-Kin is a collection of stories from significant others, family members, friends and allies of transgender persons (SOFFAs). This 400+ page guide includes 50 personal stories plus a comprehensive glossary, list of frequently asked questions and resources including books, videos and organizations--all of which promote awareness, insight and understanding of the transgender community."--Book website.

Author : Susan Brewster
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780786741229

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Helping Her Get Free by Susan Brewster Pdf

Seal Press originally published Helping Her Get Free with the title To Be an Anchor in the Storm. The survivor of an abusive relationship herself and a licensed counselor of abused women for more than a decade, Susan Brewster teaches readers how to recognize the signs of abuse, handle negative feelings, become an effective advocate, deal with the abuser, and more. With a new introduction and updated resource section, this straightforward and compassionate book offers the information needed to help give strength to women who are trying to break free.