Coney Island Christmas

Coney Island Christmas
Author: Donald Margulies, based on the story "The Loudest Voice" by Grace Paley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822231514

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies weaves together nostalgia, music and merriment in this new seasonal classic. A holiday show for people of all ages and all faiths, CONEY ISLAND CHRISTMAS introduces us to Shirley Abramowitz, a young Jewish girl who (much to her immigrant parents' exasperation) is cast as Jesus in the school's Christmas pageant. As Shirley, now much older, recounts the memorable story to her great-granddaughter, the play captures a timeless and universal tale of what it means to be an American during the holidays.

Mrs. Coney

Mrs. Coney
Author: Belinda Bremner
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573662911

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A Coney Island Reader

A Coney Island Reader
Author: Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-12-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0231538197

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This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."

Christmas Kisses with My Cowboy

Christmas Kisses with My Cowboy
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Zebra
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 142014801X

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New York Times Bestseller Publishers Weekly Bestseller Fans of Jill Shalvis, Linda Lael Miller, and Maisey Yates won’t want to miss these delightful Christmas love stories filled with humor and heart. Plenty of cowboy kisses under the mistletoe are the perfect escape this holiday season! MISTLETOE COWBOY * Diana Palmer Horse whisperer Parker doesn't drink, smoke, or gamble, and he doesn't have much to do with women, either. Until he meets winsome widow Katy, and her sweet child. Could Christmas kisses under the mistletoe bring the handsome wrangler the gift of his very own family? “No one beats this author for sensual anticipation.” —Rave Reviews BLAME IT ON THE MISTLETOE * Marina Adair To claim his slice of the family ranch, Texas Ranger Noah is forced back to Tucker’s Crossing. All he expects to find is a tractor load of painful memories—until a holiday storm, a power outage—and perhaps the magic of Christmas—deliver him to rescue an intriguing woman named Faith. But just who’s rescuing whom? “Marina Adair is a breath of fresh air.” —New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones MISTLETOE DETOUR * Kate Pearce When Morgan Valley rancher Ted Baker gets out his tow truck to pick up a snowbound driver, he doesn’t expect to find his old school friend Veronica on the lam with her pet pig—much less true love—just in time for Christmas . . . “Captures the spirit of the West.” —Booklist on The Maverick Cowboy

The Santa Claus Man

The Santa Claus Man
Author: Alex Palmer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493018906

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The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He ran the organization for 15 years, gaining fame for making the myth of Santa a reality to poor children by arranging for donors to deliver the toys they requested, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. The story is wide in scope, interweaving a phony Boy Scout group, kidnapping, stolen artwork, and appearances by the era's biggest stars and New York City’s most famous landmarks. The book is both a personal story and a far-reaching historical one, tracing the history of Christmas celebration in America and the invention of Santa Claus.

Christmas in Modern Story

Christmas in Modern Story
Author: Maud Van Buren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1927
Genre: Christmas stories
ISBN:

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Just Sweethearts

Just Sweethearts
Author: Harry Stillwell Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1920
Genre: Christmas
ISBN:

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A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1958
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Christmas Trees Lit the Sky

Christmas Trees Lit the Sky
Author: Anneliese Heider Tisdale
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2012-11-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1477278192

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The Heider family huddles together in the basement, wondering if this is the last day they will be together, if this is the last day of their lives. Its Munich, Germany, in 1945, the day American tanks are rolling in. Annelieses father finds a white sheet, ready to hang it from the attic window, hoping he times it right. Too early, and German SS forces could open fire. Too late, and the Allied forces could shoot. Thank god, its not the Russians. And so begins the memoir of Anneliese Heider Tisdale, who grew up in Germany during World War II. Hers is a universal and timeless tale of war and death, of fear and deprivation, of the inventiveness of children who want to dance and wear new clothes but instead have childhoods filled with bandages and bombs, who return to school one fall to find the crucifix in their classroom replaced with a picture of the Fhrer.

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas

Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas
Author: Stephen M. Feldman
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 1998-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814726844

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Nearly all discussions regarding the role of religion in American life build on two dominant assumptions: first, the separation of church and state is a constitutional principle that promotes democracy and equally protects the religious freedom of all Americans, especially religious outgroups; and second, this principle emerges as a uniquely American contribution to political theory. In Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas, Stephen M. Feldman challenges both these assumptions. He argues that the separation of church and state primarily manifests and reinforces Christian domination in American society. Furthermore, Feldman reveals that the separation of church and state did not first arise in America, either at the time of the constitutional framing or later. In challenging the dominant story of the separation of church and state, Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas follows the historical path of two institutions - the Christian church and the state - from the origins of Christianity forward to the present day. Feldman thus focuses on the workings of power in a specific context: he interprets the development of Christian social power vis-a-vis the state and religious minorities, particularly the prototypical religious outgroup, Jews.