Improper Bostonian
Author | : Mercedes Moritz Randall |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mercedes Moritz Randall |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : History Project (Boston, Mass.) |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807079492 |
Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston's three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and--since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history--the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.
Author | : Dolley Carlson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 483 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1510743324 |
Think Downton Abbey, set in the heart of Boston Irish domestic worker Norah King's decision to ask her wealthy employer, Caroline Parker, for an elegant red coat that the Beacon Hill matriarch has marked for donation ignites a series of events that neither woman could have fathomed. The unlikely exchange will impact their respective daughters and families for generations to come, from the coat's original owner, marriage-minded collegian Cordelia Parker, to the determined and spirited King sisters of South Boston, Rosemary, Kay, and Rita. As all of these young women experience the realities of life – love and loss, conflict and joy, class prejudices and unexpected prospects – the red coat reveals the distinction between cultures, generations, and landscapes in Boston during the 1940s and 50s, a time of change, challenge, and opportunity. Meet the proud, working-class Irish and staid, upper-class Brahmins through the contrasting lives of these two families and their friends and neighbors. See how the Parkers and the Kings each overcome sudden tragedy with resolve and triumph. And witness the profound impact of a mother’s heart on her children’s souls. Carlson brings us front and center with her knowing weave of Celtic passion – both tragic and joyful – words of wisdom, romance, humor, and historical events. Dive into Boston feet first! The Red Coat is a rich novel that chronicles the legacy of Boston from both sides of the city, Southie and the Hill.
Author | : Keith Hamilton Cobb |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 69 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1350165328 |
The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of Shakespeare's character Othello, offering up a host of insights that are by turns introspective and indicting, difficult and deeply moving. American Moor is a play about race in America, but it is also a play about who gets to make art, who gets to play Shakespeare, about whose lives and perspectives matter, about actors and acting, and about the nature of unadulterated love. American Moor has been seen across America, including a successful run off-Broadway in 2019. This edition features an introduction by Professor Kim F. Hall, Barnard College.
Author | : Mindy Kaling |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780573632754 |
MATT & BEN depicts its Hollywood golden boys ¿ before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before ¿Project Greenlight,¿ before Oscar¿before anyone actually gave a damn. When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys realize they¿re being tested by a Higher Power.
Author | : Ananda Lowe |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0553385267 |
Here is your guide to the fastest-growing trend in childbirth—a tradition as old as motherhood itself. Doulas, or professional labor assistants, have led thousands of expectant women through the birthing process in a way that’s safe and meaningful, and that creates the birth and postbirth experience all mothers long for. What exactly do doulas do? How to find one that suits you. What are the “trade secrets” only doulas know but every woman should be aware of (even if you don’t have a doula)? In The Doula Guide to Birth, senior-level doula Ananda Lowe and award-winning health reporter Rachel Zimmerman have written a most comprehensive book that draws on the wisdom of these skilled experts, whose experience with doctors, midwives, nurses, and hospitals makes them invaluable advocates before, during, and after birth. * Labor techniques anyone can use * Pain medication: do you, don’t you—and when? * What dads and loved ones need and can do best * When should you really go to the hospital in labor? * How to prepare for unexpected medical procedures, including cesareans and epidural * Postpartum—what it’s really like * A clip-out chart of labor techniques, birth plan worksheets, and much more Combining science, wit, warmth, and support, as well as the inspirational stories of dozens of mothers and their partners, you’ll find the “doula viewpoint” on every major pregnancy and delivery issue, making this one of the most important childbirth books you’ll ever read and recommend.
Author | : Camden Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Marine diesel motors |
ISBN | : 9780828312707 |
Author | : Stephen Puleo |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807078018 |
A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history—and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it. Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.
Author | : Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
A biography of the versatile 19thcentury physician, poet, scientist, professor, and lecturer who was a pioneer in many fields.
Author | : Kliph Nesteroff |
Publisher | : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0802190863 |
“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal