The Light of Luna Park
Title | The Light of Luna Park PDF eBook |
Author | Addison Armstrong |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593328043 |
In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators. A nurse's choice. A daughter's search for answers. New York City, 1926. Nurse Althea Anderson's heart is near breaking when she witnesses another premature baby die at Bellevue Hospital. So when she reads an article detailing the amazing survival rates of babies treated in incubators in an exhibit at Luna Park, Coney Island, it feels like the miracle she has been searching for. But the doctors at Bellevue dismiss Althea and this unconventional medicine, forcing her to make a choice between a baby's life and the doctors' wishes that will change everything. Twenty-five years later, Stella Wright is falling apart. Her mother has just passed, she quit a job she loves, and her marriage is struggling. Then she discovers a letter that brings into question everything she knew about her mother, and everything she knows about herself. The Light of Luna Park is a tale of courage and an ode to the sacrificial love of mothers.
Lunar Park
Title | Lunar Park PDF eBook |
Author | Bret Easton Ellis |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2005-08-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307264300 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. “John Cheever writes The Shining.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is the bestselling writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to international stardom while he was still in college. In the years that followed he found himself adrift in a world of wealth, drugs, and fame, as well as dealing with the unexpected death of his abusive father. After a decade of decadence a chance for salvation arrives; the chance to reconnect with an actress he was once involved with, and their son. But almost immediately his new life is threatened by a freak sequence of events and a bizarre series of murders that all seem to connect to Ellis’s past. His attempts to save his new world from his own demons makes Lunar Park Ellis’s most suspenseful novel. Look for Bret Easton Ellis’s new novel, The Shards!
Seattle's Luna Park
Title | Seattle's Luna Park PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron J. Naff |
Publisher | Imaginary Lines, Inc. |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738575858 |
Luna Park emerged on the north end of Alki Beach during the golden age of American amusement parks. Billed as "the Nation's Greatest Playground on the Pacific Coast," the park introduced the city to a host of novel attractions. Pleasure-seekers rode shimmering horses, thundered down the roller coaster, and marveled at daredevils and sideshows. There were games to be played, prizes to be won. Thousands swam in the waters of its natatorium and twirled across the floor of its dance hall. The park's glittering nighttime display shone across the bay and arrested the attention of the city. Though open only briefly, Luna Park remains a vibrant piece of Seattle's history.
Luna Park
Title | Luna Park PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Baker |
Publisher | Titan Publishing Company |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9781848565180 |
Alik Strelnikov lives in the shadows of Coney Island, a world of rusted fairground rides that mock his dreams of heroism. Ten years ago he left a brutal life in the Russian army to travel to America, but now, an enforcer in the Brooklyn mafia his life is guns, drugs, booze & his lover, Marina, sometime prostitute & full-time fortune teller.
Last Ride at Luna Park: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #4)
Title | Last Ride at Luna Park: A Graphic Novel (Geronimo Stilton #4) PDF eBook |
Author | Geronimo Stilton |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2022-05-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1338756273 |
Praise for Slime for Dinner: "Fresh, funny, and fast-paced. The free-style artwork and anything-goes story will make kids want to write and draw their own books!" -Dav Pilkey A new ride is opening at Luna Park! Every mouse in New Mouse City has come for the grand opening. But the rides keep breaking down, and everything is going wrong. Can Geronimo and his friends figure out who is sabotaging the opening of the Train of Terror?
Luna Babies
Title | Luna Babies PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Lee Limata |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-06-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781532949661 |
LUNA BABIES is a story of the popular premature baby exhibit that existed for forty years at one of Coney Island's largest amusement parks, Luna Park. From 1903 to 1943, 8,000 premature infants were cared for by Dr. Walter Baier and displayed to spectators who paid admission to view them. This is the story of Dr. Walther Baier and his family, chronicled through the narratives of the doctor, his wife, his daughter and his nurse. Was Dr. Baier showcasing the premature babies as freaks of nature, exploiting them for his own financial gain, or was he providing them with the highest level of healthcare which was their only hope for survival?
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island
Title | The Lost Tribe of Coney Island PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Prentice |
Publisher | New Harvest |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2014-10-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780544262287 |
Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.