Sleepaway School

Author : Lee Stringer
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781583229774

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Sleepaway School by Lee Stringer Pdf

Like his brother before him, Stringer was surrendered to foster care, shortly after birth, by his unwed and underemployed mother—a common practice for unmarried women in mid-century America. Less common was that she returned six years later to reclaim her children. Rather than leading to a happy ending, though, this is where Stringer's story begins. The clash of being poor and black in an affluent, largely white New York suburb begins to foment pain and rage which erupts, more often than not, when he is at school. One violent episode results in his expulsion from the sixth grade and his subsequent three-year stint at Hawthorne, the "sleepaway school" of the title. What follows is an intensely personal, American journey: a universal story of childhood where childhood universals are absent. We experience how a child fashions his life out of the materials given to him, however threadbare. This is a "boy-meets-world" story, the chronicle of one child’s struggle simply to be.

Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453245378

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Forsaking All Others by Jimmy Breslin Pdf

A novel of crime and passion in the South Bronx by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight and The Good Rat. The Department of Corrections makes a mistake when it grants parole to a young Puerto Rican man named Teenager. After a few years in jail for dealing narcotics, he promises the parole board that he’s gone straight. But Teenager has no intention of abandoning his life of crime. He dreams only of money, and will do anything to make himself rich. When Teenager enters business with the Lucchese family, whose boss has a line on the purest heroin in New York, success seems all but assured—until a scorching affair between the boss’s wife and a young lawyer named Maximo threatens to ruin the entire operation. Their passion is instantaneous, but Teenager will make certain that before they can be together, the Bronx is going to burn. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Susan Farrell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438100234

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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut by Susan Farrell Pdf

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

Author : Jimmy Breslin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 2064 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504056205

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The Novels of Jimmy Breslin by Jimmy Breslin Pdf

Tough, funny, moving fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. Jimmy Breslin was not only “the biggest, the baddest, the brashest, the best columnist in New York City,” he was also an outstanding New York Times–bestselling novelist, equally comfortable with comedy and tragedy, often intermixing the two (New YorkDaily News). Collected here are four of his best-loved novels, including three New York Times bestsellers. World Without End, Amen: Hoping to find redemption, disgraced, alcoholic NYPD cop Dermot Davey travels to Ulster—the heart of the increasingly bloody Irish Troubles—to find the father who abandoned him as a child, in this New York Times bestseller. “Excellent . . . Breslin writes prose in a New York idiom with a shrewdness all his own.” —The New York Times The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight: Breslin’s New York Times–bestselling, madcap novel of the sloppiest turf war ever launched by the Brooklyn mob was the basis for the hilarious movie starring Jerry Orbach as the witless Kid Sally Palumbo and a young pre–Godfather II Robert De Niro. “A very funny novel . . . and a good one.” —The Village Voice Table Money: This New York Times bestseller “about flesh-and-blood working people” is the story of Owney Morrison, a Vietnam vet who returns home to Queens with a Congressional Medal of Honor and few prospects (Studs Terkel). Owney takes up the family legacy as a sandhog—a tunnel worker. But when his drinking gets out of control, his wife Dolores considers leaving with their baby daughter rather than being dragged down by a man who feels safest one hundred feet below the street. “[A] serious literary novel, a superior work of fiction.” —The New York Times Forsaking All Others: Puerto Rican drug dealer Teenager will stop at nothing to dominate the South Bronx narcotics trade—but a scorching affair between a crime boss’s daughter who’s literally married to the mob and Teenager’s childhood friend, legal aid lawyer Maximo Escobar, threatens to ruin the entire operation. Before it’s all over, the South Bronx is going to burn. “A novel of considerable complexity and richness.” —Chicago Tribune

Author : Janice Maynard,Katie Frey,Katherine Garbera
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369708793

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Harlequin Desire May 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2 by Janice Maynard,Katie Frey,Katherine Garbera Pdf

Be transported to the luxurious worlds of American tycoons, ranchers and family dynasties. Get ready for bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: Staking a Claim Texas Cattleman’s Club: Ranchers and Rivals By USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard With dreams of running the family ranch, Layla Grandin has no time for matchmaking. Then, set up with a reluctant date, Layla realizes he sent his twin instead! Their attraction is undeniable but, when the ranch is threatened, can she afford distractions? Montana Legacy By Katie Frey After the loss of his brother, rancher Nick Hartmann is suddenly the guardian of his niece. Enter Rose Kelly — the new tutor. Sparks fly, but with his ranch at stake and the secrets she’s keeping, there’s at a lot at risk for both… Secrets of a Wedding Crasher Destination Wedding By USA TODAY bestselling author Katherine Garbera Hoping for career advancement, lobbyist Melody Conner crashes a high-profile wedding to meet with Senator Darien Bisset. What she didn’t expect was to spend the night with him. There’s a chemistry neither can deny, but being together could upend all their professional goals… For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s April 2022 Box set 2 of 2.

Author : Ann M. Martin
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545793193

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Mary Anne to the Rescue (The Baby-Sitters Club #109) by Ann M. Martin Pdf

Mary-Anne's life is turned upside down when the Club members participate in a scary and intensive first aid class and Logan's parents decide to send him to a boarding school.

Author : Katie Frey
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369708755

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Montana Legacy by Katie Frey Pdf

Family secrets—and irresistible attraction—could cost this cowboy everything in Katie Frey’s sizzling Harlequin Desire debut! With his ranching legacy at stake, falling for his new hire is forbidden… Now that Nick Hartmann is the guardian of his orphaned niece, he needs to hire a tutor, fast, and Rose Kelly is the answer. But only if the Montana rancher can resist his overpowering desire for her. No less than control of his family’s land and legacy hangs in the balance. But his stunning new hire may not be who she seems. Will divided family loyalties, a fierce estate battle and Rose’s shocking secret cost Nick everything—including his heart? From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry.

Author : Blake Boles
Publisher : Tells Peak Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780986011979

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Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? by Blake Boles Pdf

For some kids, school offers a positive and engaging experience. For others, it's a boring, stressful, and frustrating waste of time. If your child is in the second category, why keep tormenting them? Instead, why not help them find an educational environment where they feel genuinely motivated, excited, and empowered? In this eye-opening book, Blake Boles makes the case for leaving conventional school and taking one of the many alternative paths through K-12 that exist today. He addresses parents' major concerns about unconventional education -- Can my kids still go to college? Will they still be employable? How will they learn to work hard? -- while highlighting the hidden benefits of self-directed learning, such as improved parent-child relationships, a more balanced decision-making process regarding college, and a heightened sense of autonomy and connection. Drawing upon 15 years of work as a mentor and guide for adolescents in alternative and experiential learning environments -- as well as his own unconventional life path -- Boles weaves together narrative, theory, and research to build a powerful argument for granting children unusual levels of freedom and responsibility.

Author : Rachel Vail
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250162212

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Cat Ears on Elizabeth by Rachel Vail Pdf

Cat Ears on Elizabeth is the third in Rachel Vail's A Is for Elizabeth chapter book series--featuring illustrations by Paige Keiser. Cat ears on your headband is not the only way to look great. But it is a very good way. Mallory has glitter folders and bright orange sneakers and a huge pink eraser. And Mallory has cat ears on her headband. Then Anna comes to school with cat ears on her headband, too. Everybody loves how they look in those cat-ear headbands. Especially Elizabeth. Elizabeth doesn’t have cat ears on her anything. She doesn’t even have any headband at all anymore. (They squish her head too much). Elizabeth needs a cat-ears headband! It’s an emergency! Maybe a surprise I Love You present from her grandparents will fix everything. Or maybe Elizabeth doesn’t need to be fixed at all.

Author : Sherry B. Ortner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 082233108X

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New Jersey Dreaming by Sherry B. Ortner Pdf

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine class culture and ethnicity in America today.

Author : Deborah Blythe Doroshow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226621579

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Emotionally Disturbed by Deborah Blythe Doroshow Pdf

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental hospital or asylum, an institution for the so-called feebleminded, or a training school for delinquent children. Starting in the 1930s, however, more specialized institutions began to open all over the country. Staff members at these residential treatment centers shared a commitment to helping children who could not be managed at home. They adopted an integrated approach to treatment, employing talk therapy, schooling, and other activities in the context of a therapeutic environment. Emotionally Disturbed is the first work to examine not only the history of residential treatment but also the history of seriously mentally ill children in the United States. As residential treatment centers emerged as new spaces with a fresh therapeutic perspective, a new kind of person became visible—the emotionally disturbed child. Residential treatment centers and the people who worked there built physical and conceptual structures that identified a population of children who were alike in distinctive ways. Emotional disturbance became a diagnosis, a policy problem, and a statement about the troubled state of postwar society. But in the late twentieth century, Americans went from pouring private and public funds into the care of troubled children to abandoning them almost completely. Charting the decline of residential treatment centers in favor of domestic care–based models in the 1980s and 1990s, this history is a must-read for those wishing to understand how our current child mental health system came to be.

Author : Harley A. Rotbart
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781524874551

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No Regrets Parenting, Updated and Expanded Edition by Harley A. Rotbart Pdf

For every type of family, this updated and expanded edition is the quintessential, open-to-all parenting guidebook, guaranteed to help you find more—and better—time for your kids and yourself. It's not just how much time you have with your kids, but how you spend that time that matters in the life and legacy of a family. No Regrets Parenting focuses on the simple truth that the long days of busy parenting race quickly by and, looking back someday, the years with kids will feel far too short. Written by renowned pediatrician, celebrated author, and distinguished parenting expert, Dr. Harley Rotbart, No Regrets Parenting, Updated and Expanded Edition helps parents readjust their perspectives and priorities. Dr. Rotbart teaches parents how to experience the joy and depth of the parenting experience amidst the chaos and choreography of daily routines. Carpool, bedtime, bath time, soccer practice, homework, dinner hour, and sleepovers all become more than just obligations and hurdles to overcome. They become opportunities for intimate and meaningful time with kids— opportunities to turn fleeting minutes into memorable moments. Your kids need to see who you are and how you live your life. And, in return, they will help you to see who you really are and how you should be living your life. For all of that to happen, families need memorable and meaningful time together. No Regrets Parenting is about time—finding enough of it and making the most of it. Accompanying this timeless advice, Dr. Rotbart has added timely, updated content to address the ever-changing needs of today’s busy families. Also in this edition are two brand new sections: "Parenting Young Adult Children" (because parenting doesn’t end with high school graduation) and "No Regrets Grandparenting" for those magical years when your children become parents! Oh my! This updated and expanded edition answers the ageless question: How can you do it all…and stay sane in the process?

Author : Audrey Flack
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271098302

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With Darkness Came Stars by Audrey Flack Pdf

Author : Julie Lythcott-Haims
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781627791786

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How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Pdf

New York Times Bestseller "Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege and Teach Your Children Well "For parents who want to foster hearty self-reliance instead of hollow self-esteem, How to Raise an Adult is the right book at the right time." -Daniel H. Pink, author of the New York Times bestsellers Drive and A Whole New Mind A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate philosophy for raising preteens and teens to self-sufficient young adulthood In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success. Relevant to parents of toddlers as well as of twentysomethings-and of special value to parents of teens-this book is a rallying cry for those who wish to ensure that the next generation can take charge of their own lives with competence and confidence.

Author : Garth Risk Hallberg
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 1149 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385682756

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City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg Pdf

A big-hearted, boundary-vaulting novel that heralds a remarkable new talent: set in 1970s New York, it is a story outsized in its generosity, warmth, and ambition, its deep feeling for its characters, and its exuberant imagination. The individuals who live within this extraordinary first novel are: Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's largest fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter; his idealistic neighbor; and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park. Their entangled relationships--which stretch from post-Vietnam youth culture to the fiscal crisis, from small-town Georgia to greater L.A.--open up the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the infamous blackout of July 13th, 1977 plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. A novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock'n'roll, about how the people closest to us are sometimes the hardest to reach--about what it means to be human.