To Brooklyn with Love
Title | To Brooklyn with Love PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1967 |
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To Brooklyn with Love
Title | To Brooklyn with Love PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Green |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1967 |
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Brooklyn
Title | Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Colm Toibin |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2010-04-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0771085400 |
Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
A Word for Love
Title | A Word for Love PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Robbins |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2018-01-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0399185852 |
"A paean to unabashed, unbridled love." --Khaled Hosseini, New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner A mesmerizing debut set in Syria on the cusp of the unrest, A Word for Love is the spare and exquisitely told story of a young American woman transformed by language, risk, war, and a startling new understanding of love. It is said there are ninety-nine Arabic words for love. Bea, an American exchange student, has learned them all: in search of deep feeling, she travels to a Middle Eastern country known to hold the "The Astonishing Text," an ancient, original manuscript of a famous Arabic love story that is said to move its best readers to tears. But once in this foreign country, Bea finds that instead of intensely reading Arabic she is entwined in her host family's complicated lives--as they lock the doors, and whisper anxiously about impending revolution. And suddenly, instead of the ancient love story she sought, it is her daily witness of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet-like romance--between a housemaid and policeman of different cultural and political backgrounds--that astonishes her, changes her, and makes her weep. But as the country drifts toward explosive unrest, Bea wonders how many secrets she can keep, and how long she can fight for a romance that does not belong to her. Ultimately, in a striking twist, Bea's own story begins to mirror that of "The Astonishing Text" that drew her there in the first place--not in the role of one of the lovers, as she might once have imagined, but as the character who lives to tell the story long after the lovers have gone. With melodic meditation on culture, language, and familial devotion. Robbins delivers a powerful novel that questions what it means to love from afar, to be an outsider within a love story, and to take someone else's passion and cradle it until it becomes your own.
Brooklyn Love Stories
Title | Brooklyn Love Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Bahn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2013-04-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615786308 |
Follow the joyously miserable love lives of one dozen twentysomethings living in New York City -- Brooklyn, to be precise. From pretty girls to broke musicians, everyone's having a time of it. Each story serves as a brief glimpse in the heart of a relationship. Witness bad dates, weird sex, charmed beginnings. Commiserate with subway-induced nervous breakdowns. Watch a burned-out relationship deteriorate and fall away, and then find out if they've managed to pick up the pieces. These are Brooklyn Love Stories.
I Live in Brooklyn
Title | I Live in Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Mari Takabayashi |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2004-04-22 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054752868X |
From days on the stoop, playing hopscotch and watching fireworks from the rooftops, to school field trips into the city, where zoos and museums await, Michelle introduces readers to her favorite places and things to do. Mari Takabayashi’s diminutive scenes, busy with cheerful detail, bring the beauty and bustle of New York City to life for children all around the world.
Love, Hope and Tragedy
Title | Love, Hope and Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Calciano |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1998-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781879834064 |