Marooned In Manhattan

Author : Sheila Agnew
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927485873

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Evie Brooks is Marooned in Manhattan by Sheila Agnew Pdf

New York City. Evie Brooks has seen it on the TV, but she never imagined herself living there. But when her mother dies, Evie finds herself leaving her home in Dublin and moving to Manhattan to visit with her American uncle for the summer. Never having owned a pet more substantial than a goldfish, twelve-year-old Evie is intrigued by Uncle Scott’s veterinary practice, and before long is working as an assistant in the clinic. Soon she finds herself immersed in dogs galore, parrots, reptiles, and an assortment of other creatures and their eccentric owners. And she loves it. Manhattan would be just about perfect if it weren’t for Uncle Scott’s lawyer girlfriend, who has plans for him that do not involve Evie. Before the summer is over, Evie has an important decision to make: stay in New York and confront the problem of Scott’s girlfriend or return to Ireland to live with her godmother.

Author : Sheila Agnew
Publisher : Evie Brooks
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1847175589

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Marooned in Manhattan by Sheila Agnew Pdf

New York City. Evie Brooks had seen it on the TV, but suddenly finds herself leaving her home in Dublin and moving to Manhattan to her American uncle Scott, after the death of her mother. Never owned a pet more substantial than a goldfish, Evie is intrigued by Scott's NYC veterinary practice, and before long, Evie is working as an assistant in the clinic. Between the pets, their owners, Scott and his lawyer girlfriend, the Summer quickly becomes a whirlwind of change and activity! And then Evie has to make a huge choice: will she stay in New York, or return to live in Ireland with her godmother, Janet?

Author : Christopher Barker
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554582709

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The Arms of the Infinite by Christopher Barker Pdf

"A moving account of a man returning to his child self, trying to understand his absconding father, and of an adult searching to forgive."--Rosemary Sullivan, author of By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, a Life.

Author : Eric J. Ierardi
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0738523615

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Gravesend by Eric J. Ierardi Pdf

Brooklyn is an incredible mosaic of the human experience. Within this New York borough's crowded city blocks, there are infinite stories of success and failure, hope and despair, euphoria and suffering. Gravesend, one of Brooklyn's most historic neighborhoods, possesses a rich heritage that is, at once, typical of the American spirit in its ambition and energy, yet is also unique with its colorful pageantry of luxury hotels, pleasure parks, and larger-than-life personalities. Gravesend: The Home of Coney Island takes readers on a fascinating journey from the town's first settlement in the 1640s by Lady Deborah Moody, an intrepid and visionary leader of religious freedom, across four centuries of progress, conflict, and change. Containing over 120 black-and-white images, this stunning illustrated history brings to life early figures and events that shaped Gravesend's past and initiated Coney Island's prominence as the world's playground. Like a visitor of yesteryear, readers will stroll along the busy boardwalk, taste the world-famous hot dogs from Nathan's Restaurant, explore the renowned dance halls, race tracks, and casinos, and thrill at the kaleidoscopic assortment of roller coasters and other breathtaking rides, such as the Parachute Jump, at the celebrated Dreamland, Luna, and Steeplechase Parks.

Author : Melanie Crowder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481441483

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A Nearer Moon by Melanie Crowder Pdf

Long ago the dam formed, the lively river turned into a swamp, and the wasting illness came to Luna's village, and now that her little sister is sick Luna will do anything to save her, even offer herself to the creature that lives in the swamp on the day of the nearer moon--a lonely and bitter water sprite who was left behind when her people fled through a door to another world.

Author : Milton Martin Klein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489911

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The Empire State by Milton Martin Klein Pdf

Readers from the Big Apple to Buffalo and beyond will find "The Empire State"--which provides equal coverage to "upstate" and "downstate" events and people--satisfying and informative reading. A rich resource, it chronicles the state through centuries of change.

Author : Sheila Agnew
Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781927485934

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Evie Brooks in Central Park Showdown by Sheila Agnew Pdf

Evie Brooks is having the time of her life in New York, despite having to start her first day of school with a stye on her eye and a skirt so short it shows off her baby giraffe legs. Nevertheless, Evie makes new friends - maybe even a boyfriend, although how can you tell whether he's a boyfriend or just a boy who happens to be a friend? And life with her Uncle Scott continues to be a whirlwind as he adds the Central Park Zoo to his list of vet clients. Once again the practice is inundated with the city's strangest pets and inmates, including an alpaca named Milly, Eddie the Westipoo, Jax the snail, and a rabbit named Dr. Pepper that goes walkabout in Central Park. Evie is almost too busy to notice that the father she's never met has darkened her door and is anxious to make amends and seek custody of Evie. Well, Evie won't have any part of that. Nobody is going to separate her from Uncle Scott, not even the courts and a lawyer named Marcy, who claims to be representing her interests but won't let her speak. That is not Evie's style, however, and she is determined to find a way to stay with her uncle, with a little help from her friends.

Author : Wednesday Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476762715

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Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin Pdf

"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--

Author : United States. Bureau of Employment Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129179003

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Employment Security Review by United States. Bureau of Employment Security Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Employment agencies
ISBN : CORNELL:31924064511110

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Employment Security Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669390633

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Summary of Joseph J. Ellis's The Cause by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The American Revolution was a highly compressed historical moment that resulted in the independence of the United States. The British called it the American rebellion, an accurate description of the eight-year war fought by former British colonists who sought to secede from the British Empire. #2 The American side of the story requires a different kind of movement from the top to the bottom of the social scale to grasp the reasons the American resistance was so intractable. The British side of the story requires several trips across the Atlantic to understand the reasons why the government made the biggest blunder in the history of British statecraft. #3 There are some ugly moments in this story that will require a revision of our prim and proper picture of eighteenth-century warfare as a polite exchange of muskets between two perfectly aligned rows of statuesque soldiers. #4 We must avoid the presentistic fallacy, in which we assume that the revolutionary generation is a fixed object against which we do our politically correct isometric exercises. We must also be capable of thinking paradoxically.

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307701220

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Revolutionary Summer by Joseph J. Ellis Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of First Family presents a revelatory account of America's declaration of independence and the political and military responses on both sides throughout the summer of 1776 that influenced key decisions and outcomes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : PSU:000066489306

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Film Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Graham Russell Gao Hodges
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807876015

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Root and Branch by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Pdf

In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries. Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the British takeover, the fierce era of slavery, and the painfully slow process of emancipation. He pays particular attention to the black religious experience in all its complexity and to the vibrant slave culture that was shaped on the streets and in the taverns. Together, Hodges shows, these two potent forces helped fuel the long and arduous pilgrimage to liberty.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poets, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106015964809

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The Chameleon Poet by Robert Fraser Pdf

The poet George Barker was convinced that his biography could never be written. 'I've stirred the facts around too much,' he told Robert Fraser. 'It simply can't be done.' Eliot wrote of his 'genius'. Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women. War trapped him in Japan. In America he conducted one of the most celebrated love affairs of the century. He fathered fifteen children in several countries, three during one battle-torn summer. By the 1950s he was the toast of Soho. Barker was Catholic and bohemian, frank and elusive, tender and boisterous. In Eliot's phrase, he was 'a most peculiar fellow.' Robert Fraser's biography offers both a portrait of a talented, tormented and irresistibly entertaining man, and a broad cultural landscape. Around the central figure cluster painters like Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Johnny Minton and the 'Roberts' Colquhoun and MacBryde; writers such as Dylan Thomas, Walter de la Mare and Elizabeth Smart, whose By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept hymns their liaison; the lugubrious humorist Jeffrey Bernard. After closing time at the Colony Room, Minton declared, they had to sweep up the jokes.