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Author: Stephen Wolf
Publisher:
Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780999315361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an imaginative blend of personal memoir and meticulous research, Central Park Love Song tells the remarkable story of America's first great public park and the city that needed and created it.
Author: Laura Godwin
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2002-04-02
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0060258918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrations and rhyming text celebrate the sights and sounds of New York's Central Park in summer. Includes the painted park map on endpapers.
Author: Sarah Morgan
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1489209697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the chaos of New York, true love can be hard to find, even when it's been right under your nose all along... Love has never been a priority for garden designer Frankie Fisher. After witnessing the fallout of her parents' divorce, she's seen the devastation an overload of emotion can cause. The only man she feels comfortable with is her friend Matt – but that's strictly platonic. If only she found it easier to ignore the way he makes her heart race... Matt Walker has loved Frankie for years but, sensing how fragile she is beneath her feisty exterior, has always played it cool. But then he uncovers new depths to the girl he's known forever, and doesn't want to wait a moment longer. He knows Frankie has secrets and has buried them deep, but can Matt persuade her to trust him with her heart, and kiss him under the Manhattan sunset? “Sarah Morgan crafts a tale that is sheer magic.” Fresh Fiction
Author: Sara Cedar Miller
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780810997868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrawberry Fields is one of the most visited spots in Central Park and one of the most popular tourist attractions in New York City. This keepsake volume is a celebration of the 2.5-acre teardrop-shaped living memorial to John Lennon's life and work. The year 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of its dedication, as well as what would have been Lennon's 70th birthday. Located in the park directly across the street from the Dakota, the building where John and Yoko lived for several years before his untimely death, Strawberry Fields was originally conceived as a "peace garden." Yoko invited the entire world to donate trees, shrubs, and stones to fill this parcel of land, and today, the garden flourishes with contributions from 121 countries. A rich and lively patchwork of text and imagery will tell the story of John and Yoko's love affair with the park and of the creation of this unique corner of the park through an unprecedented collaborative effort between Yoko Ono, the Central Park Conservancy, and city officials.
Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 0312676573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA noted historian of the Broadway musical chronicles the braided lives of two of the 20th-century's most influential artists. Mordden shows the romance of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya in a dual biography scored to music from Weil's greatest triumphs.
Author: Julius Lester
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1611455456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulius Lester was born the son of a black Methodist minister in the south. His book Lovesong is a beautifully written account of his spiritual journey away from the conventions of his Southern heritage and Methodist upbringing, culminating in his personal self-discovery through a conversion to Judaism. Growing up in the turbulent civil rights era South, Lester was often discouraged by the disconnectedness between the promises of religion and the realities of his life. He used the outlets available to him to try to come to grips with this split and somehow reconcile the injustices he was witnessing with the purity of religion. He became a controversial writer and commentator, siding with neither blacks nor whites in his unconventional viewpoints. He became a luminal figure of the times, outside of the conventional labels of race, religion, politics, or philosophy. Lester’s spiritual quest would take him through the existential landscape of his Southern, Christian upbringing, into his ancestry, winding through some of the holiest places on the planet and into the spiritual depths of the world’s major religious cultures. His odyssey of faith would unexpectedly lead him to discovering Judaism as his true spiritual calling.
Author: Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780801497513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelineate the politicians, business people, artists, immigrant laborers, and city dwellers who are the key players in the tale. In tracing the park's history, the writers also give us the history of New York. They explain how squabbles over politics, taxes, and real estate development shaped the park and describe the acrimonious debates over what a public park should look like, what facilities it should offer, and how it should accommodate the often incompatible.
Author: Will Hermes
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0374533547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title provides a group portrait of some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, including Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and Bob Dylan.
Author: Andrew Blauner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1608197425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCentral Park is perhaps the most well-trod and familiar green space in the county. It is both a refuge from the city and Manhattan's very heart; a respite from the urban grind and a hive of activity all its own. 843 carefully planned acres allow some 37 million visitors each year to come and get lost in a sense of nature. Unsurprisingly, the park also inspires a wealth of great writing, and here Andrew Blauner collects some of the finest fiction and nonfiction-- 20 pieces in all, with classics sprinkled among 13 new ones commissioned from great New York writers. Bill Buford spends a wild night in the park; Jonathan Safran Foer envisions it as a tiny, transplanted piece of a mythical Sixth Borough; and Marie Winn answers definitively Holden Caulfield's question of where the ducks go when the park's ponds freeze over. There are bird sightings and fish sightings; Jackie Kennedy and James Brown sightings; and pieces by Colson Whitehead, Paul Auster, and Francine Prose. This vibrant collection presents Central Park, in all its many-faceted glory, a 51-block swath of special magic.
Author: Snoo Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-05-05
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1474255329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing is stronger than this love, for I am nothing indeed without you, Master Awoken from his deathbed by his favourite childhood teddy bear, Turing is led by the hand through the journey of his life, from glowing academia to New York drag bars, from triumph to disgrace. Snoo Wilson's Lovesong of the Electric Bear is an epic, psychedelic and electrifying trip through the life of Alan Turing, the computer visionary and maths genius whose gifts made him the code-breaking hero of World War II, but whose homosexuality led him to betrayal and vilification by the very establishment who had depended on him for victory. Lovesong of the Electric Bear is a wonderfully imaginative, comic and moving play from one of British theatre's great voices. The edition publishes to coincide with the European premiere at the Hope Theatre, London, on 24 February 2015.
