Across the Alley
Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : Follettbound
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781428711167
The Alley
Author : Eleanor Estes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547536879
Book Description
In the heart of Brooklyn, New York, there is an alley that is the most beautiful place to live in the whole wide world. Or so Connie Ives believes. The alley is the perfect location to sharpen Connie's swinging skills, hold practices for the Alley Conservatory of Music, and convict a burglar by trial. From the bestselling author of Ginger Pye comes the story of a little girl whose eyes are always open to the beauty of the world that surrounds her.
Nightmare Alley
Author : William Lindsay Gresham
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1590174283
Book Description
Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni Collette. Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he’s going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan’s for the taking. At least for now.
Paradise Alley
Author : Kevin Baker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061748986
Book Description
They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.
Midaq Alley
Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,50 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101974664
Book Description
Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley vividly evoke Egypt's largest city as it teeters on the brink of change. Never has Nobel Prize-winner Mahfouz's talent for rich and luxurious storytelling been more evident than here, in his portrait of one small street as a microcosm of the world on the threshold of modernity.
Paradise Alley
Author : Sylvester Stallone
Publisher : Berkley Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780425038116
Book Description
Alley Life in Washington
Author : James Borchert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252054903
Book Description
Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.
The Tale of Kitty In Boots
Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0241281733
Book Description
"A serious, well-behaved young black cat, who leads a daring double life defeating vile villains." When Miss Kitty sneaks out to go hunting in her beautiful boots, she gets herself into all sorts of scrapes, but on this particular night she meets the foxiest hunter of them all - Mr. Tod! This utterly entertaining tale is filled with mistaken identities, devious villains and even an appearance from Peter Rabbit. Told with Beatrix Potter's trademark dry humour and wry observations, this brilliant tale is sure to become as popular as her original classics and is illustrated by the best-loved Quentin Blake.
Midnight Alley
Author : Rachel Caine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9781435222373
Book Description
When she pledges herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, Claire is faced with a past stalker, murder, and an ancient bloodsucker who extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home.
Clown Alley
Author : Bill Ballantine
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Child development
ISBN : 9780316079587
Book Description
The dean of Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus' Clown College tells the story of the school and of his life as a clown
