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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Pearl Street Camp
Author: The Gideon
Author: Tallgrass
Author: Sandra DallasPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312360191
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Her life turned upside-down when a Japanese internment camp is opened in their small Colorado town, Rennie witnesses the way her community places suspicion on the newcomers when a young girl is murdered.
The New York Annual Register
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Containing an almanac; civil and judicial list; with political, statistical and other information respecting the state of New York and the United States.
Forest and Stream
Author: The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
Author: TrevanianPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307238504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America. Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else to go, the LaPointes create a fragile nest in a tenement building at 238 North Pearl Street in Albany, New York. For the next eight years, through the Great Depression and Second World War, they live in the heart of the Irish slum, surrounded by ward heelers, unemployment, and grinding poverty. Pearl Street is also home to a variety of “crazyladies”: Miss Cox, the feared and ridiculed teacher who ignites Jean-Luc’s imagination; Mrs. Kane, who runs a beauty parlor/fortune-telling salon in the back of her husband’s grocery store; Mrs. Meehan, the desperate, harried matriarch of a thuggish family across the street; lonely Mrs. McGivney, who spends every day tending to her catatonic husband, a veteran of the Great War; and Jean-Luc’s own unconventional, vivacious mother. Colorful though it is, Jean-Luc never stops dreaming of a way out of the slum, and his mother’s impossible expectations are both his driving force and his burden. As legendary writer Trevanian lovingly re-creates the neighborhood of his youth in this funny, deeply moving coming-of-age novel, he also paints a vivid portrait of a neighborhood, a city, a nation in turmoil, and the people waiting for a better life to begin. It’s a heartfelt and unforgettable look back at one child’s life in the 1930s and ’40s, a story that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.
Providence City Documents ...
Author: Providence (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Contains the reports of city officials for the preceding year.
The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet
Author: Greg H. WilliamsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476672482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7), American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet (where it was December 8) were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.S. naval forces. Their fate in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies was often grim--many died aboard burning ships, were executed upon capture or spent years as prisoners of war. Many books have been written about the ships of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, yet few look into the experiences of the common sailor. Drawing on official reports, past research, personal memoirs and the writings of war correspondents, the author tells the story of those who never came home in 1945.
Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: Charter, By-laws, and List of Members of the American Geographical and Statistical Society
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description