West Side Girl

Author : Anita Solick Oswald
Publisher : Anita Oswald
ISBN 13 : 9781986678728
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Side Girl written by Anita Solick Oswald and published by Anita Oswald. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita grew up in the 3rd story apartment above her family's Bohemian restaurant on Madison Street in Chicago's west side in the 50's and 60's. The daughter of a fireman and a housewife/frustrated writer, she befriended a ragtag brigade of children of immigrants and migrants. Together, they found both themselves and the world-at-large on their neighborhood's streets. Beautifully written, West Side Girl chronicles the colorful and oftentimes unpredictably eccentric characters and events of the area and time. Themes include social change, girls empowerment and the benefits of growing up in a diverse neighborhood. Seen through of the eyes of a child coming of age in the 1950's and 1960's, these true stories of the quest for equality and social justice are outrageous, insightful, funny, touching, inspiring and reflective. Profits from the sale of this book are donated to Off the Street Club, www.otsc.org.

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780435235284
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Side Story written by Leonard Bernstein and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1972 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.

Author : Amy Kronish
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israeli Film written by Amy Kronish and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive survey of Israeli films and filmmakers, establishing itself as the only book of its kind in English.

Author : Marcia Chatelain
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375702
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Side Girls written by Marcia Chatelain and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists formulated a vulnerable image of urban black girlhood that needed protecting. She argues that the construction and meaning of black girlhood shifted in response to major economic, social, and cultural changes and crises, and that it reflected parents' and community leaders' anxieties about urbanization and its meaning for racial progress. Girls shouldered much of the burden of black aspiration, as adults often scrutinized their choices and behavior, and their well-being symbolized the community's moral health. Yet these adults were not alone in thinking about the Great Migration, as girls expressed their views as well. Referencing girls' letters and interviews, Chatelain uses their powerful stories of hope, anticipation and disappointment to highlight their feelings and thoughts, and in so doing, she helps restore the experiences of an understudied population to the Great Migration's complex narrative.

Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876663
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Side Story written by Elizabeth A. Wells and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.

Author : Karen Marshall
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783969000359
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Girls written by Karen Marshall and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-decade-long documentary follows a group of middle-class New York City girls.

Author : W.M. Akers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062854038
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Westside written by W.M. Akers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year! “The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art A young detective who specializes in “tiny mysteries” finds herself at the center of a massive conspiracy in this beguiling historical fantasy set on Manhattan’s Westside—a peculiar and dangerous neighborhood home to strange magic and stranger residents—that blends the vivid atmosphere of Caleb Carr with the imaginative power of Neil Gaiman. It’s 1921, and a thirteen-mile fence running the length of Broadway splits the island of Manhattan, separating the prosperous Eastside from the Westside—an overgrown wasteland whose hostility to modern technology gives it the flavor of old New York. Thousands have disappeared here, and the respectable have fled, leaving behind the killers, thieves, poets, painters, drunks, and those too poor or desperate to leave. It is a hellish landscape, and Gilda Carr proudly calls it home. Slightly built, but with a will of iron, Gilda follows in the footsteps of her late father, a police detective turned private eye. Unlike that larger-than-life man, Gilda solves tiny mysteries: the impossible puzzles that keep us awake at night; the small riddles that destroy us; the questions that spoil marriages, ruin friendships, and curdle joy. Those tiny cases distract her from her grief, and the one impossible question she knows she can’t answer: “How did my father die?” Yet on Gilda’s Westside, tiny mysteries end in blood—even the case of a missing white leather glove. Mrs. Copeland, a well-to-do Eastside housewife, hires Gilda to find it before her irascible merchant husband learns it is gone. When Gilda witnesses Mr. Copeland’s murder at a Westside pier, she finds herself sinking into a mire of bootlegging, smuggling, corruption—and an evil too dark to face. All she wants is to find one dainty ladies’ glove. She doesn’t want to know why this merchant was on the wrong side of town—or why he was murdered in cold blood. But as she begins to see the connection between his murder, her father’s death, and the darkness plaguing the Westside, she faces the hard truth: she must save her city or die with it. Introducing a truly remarkable female detective, Westside is a mystery steeped in the supernatural and shot through with gunfights, rotgut whiskey, and sizzling Dixieland jazz. Full of dazzling color, delightful twists, and truly thrilling action, it announces the arrival of a wonderful new talent.

Author : Michael Lieberman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595344259
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Side Stories written by Michael Lieberman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the roof of Gusta Katz's tower on Manhattan's Upper West Side the tenants are gathered for a holiday meal. It is autumn 1993. Each has a story to tell. Calev 'Charlie' Levine cannot go home. What caused Martin Sommers' engagement to implode? Will Toby Kassman give in to forbidden passion? What will Sam Geffen learn from his guest from hell? What long-held secret will Leslie Aronowitz's mother reveal...after her death? Tales of conflict and love; of family discovery, dating, marriage, dysfunctional relationships, escape from and return to religion. From a shocking holocaust revelation to a tale of revenge, someone will still be affected by the residue of long past mistakes. Someone from mistakes made just yesterday. In West Side Stories Michael Lieberman delves deep into the heart of modern Orthodox Jewish New York in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and beauty.

Author : Echo Brown
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1250309867
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Girl Unlimited written by Echo Brown and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A William C. Morris Award Finalist "Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder."—The New York Times "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street. Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : William Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684865068
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Westside written by William Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed author explores the dreams and realities of seven young men trying to make it in South-central Los Angeles, the world capital of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop.