My Coney Island Baby

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473558484
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis My Coney Island Baby by : Billy O'Callaghan

Download or read book My Coney Island Baby written by Billy O'Callaghan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020* On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.

The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524744964
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by : Dawn Raffel

Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr. Couney written by Dawn Raffel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great Reads What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some seven thousand babies. Dr. Martin Couney's story is a kaleidoscopic ride through the intersection of ebullient entrepreneurship, enlightened pediatric care, and the wild culture of world's fairs at the beginning of the American Century. As Dawn Raffel recounts, Dr. Couney used incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, while displaying these babies alongside sword swallowers, bearded ladies, and burlesque shows at Coney Island, Atlantic City, and venues across the nation. How this turn-of-the-twentieth-century émigré became the savior to families with premature infants—known then as “weaklings”—as he ignored the scorn of the medical establishment and fought the rising popularity of eugenics is one of the most astounding stories of modern medicine. Dr. Couney, for all his entrepreneurial gusto, is a surprisingly appealing character, someone who genuinely cared for the well-being of his tiny patients. But he had something to hide... Drawing on historical documents, original reportage, and interviews with surviving patients, Dawn Raffel tells the marvelously eccentric story of Couney's mysterious carnival career, his larger-than-life personality, and his unprecedented success as the savior of the fragile wonders that are tiny, tiny babies. A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title A Real Simple Best Book of 2018 Christopher Award-winner

Coney Island Baby

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ISBN 13 : 9780578985794
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Coney Island Baby written by Larry Racioppo and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dead House

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Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847179347
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dead House by : Billy O'Callaghan

Download or read book The Dead House written by Billy O'Callaghan and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempting to rebuild her life after a violent relationship, Maggie Turner, a successful young artist, moves from London to Allihies and buys an ancient abandoned cottage. Keen to concentrate on her art, she is captivated by the wild beauty of her surroundings. After renovations, she hosts a house-warming weekend for friends. A drunken game with a Ouija board briefly descends into something more sinister, as Maggie apparently channels a spirit who refers to himself simply as 'The Master'. The others are visibly shaken, but the day after the whole thing is easily dismissed as the combination of suggestion and alcohol. Maggie immerses herself in her painting, but the work devolves, day by day, until her style is no longer recognisable. She glimpses things, hears voices, finds herself drawn to certain areas: a stone circle in the nearby hills, the reefs at the west end of the beach behind her home ... A compelling modern ghost story from a supremely talented writer. From the Costa Short Story Award Finalist, Billy O'Callaghan. 'a welcome voice to the pantheon of new Irish writing' - Edna O'Brien

Coney Island Baby!

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Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477170685
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Book Synopsis Coney Island Baby! by : Jonathan Scott

Download or read book Coney Island Baby! written by Jonathan Scott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pictures, poems, and art is my photography/art statement on OUR Coney Island (mid to late 20s age folks). Picking up after the closing of Astroland amusement park (the last full out park still standing in CI, which is now the re-vamped Luna Park, a throw back to the original circa. early 1900s) into the opening of 2010/2011 Luna Park/Scream Zone and The Wonder Wheel's 90th birthday. This collection shows Coney Island from 2008 to 2011.It's a gritty little Coney now, but with all the classics still alive. The circus, vaudeville, freak shows, and burlesque. Also of-course: The Cyclone, Mermaid Day, The Forth of July & Easter Sunday. Coney is STILL the hot-spot summer destination/family tradition..... with a Hot Dog in one hand, El-dorado arcade tokens, and strong Pina Colada in the other!!!!Coney Island will never lose its attraction and shine. Like a giant magnet pulling those curious and somewhat nervous people in, and they stay here. Once they sense the creativity, regardless if they are an artist or not, Coney will draw it out of them. An inspiration, A muse to creative, to express yourself, to be a little crazy because... It's normal here, and that in itself, will never go out of vogue. Coney Island will keep constantly changing and redeveloping, Yes. but it's been doin' that from the beginning. However, there is something here that can never be torn down nor changed. It's a magical place yet, it ain't Disneyland!

The Light of Luna Park

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593328043
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis The Light of Luna Park by : Addison Armstrong

Download or read book The Light of Luna Park written by Addison Armstrong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of The Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours, a historical debut about a nurse who chooses to save a baby's life, and risks her own in the process, exploring the ties of motherhood and the little-known history of Coney Island and America's first incubators. A nurse's choice. A daughter's search for answers. New York City, 1926. Nurse Althea Anderson's heart is near breaking when she witnesses another premature baby die at Bellevue Hospital. So when she reads an article detailing the amazing survival rates of babies treated in incubators in an exhibit at Luna Park, Coney Island, it feels like the miracle she has been searching for. But the doctors at Bellevue dismiss Althea and this unconventional medicine, forcing her to make a choice between a baby's life and the doctors' wishes that will change everything. Twenty-five years later, Stella Wright is falling apart. Her mother has just passed, she quit a job she loves, and her marriage is struggling. Then she discovers a letter that brings into question everything she knew about her mother, and everything she knows about herself. The Light of Luna Park is a tale of courage and an ode to the sacrificial love of mothers.

Brooklyn

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208611
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Brooklyn by : Thomas J. Campanella

Download or read book Brooklyn written by Thomas J. Campanella and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.

A Coney Island of the Mind

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200417
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis A Coney Island of the Mind by : Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Download or read book A Coney Island of the Mind written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Luna Babies

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781532949661
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (496 download)

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Book Synopsis Luna Babies by : Carole Lee Limata

Download or read book Luna Babies written by Carole Lee Limata and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LUNA BABIES is a story of the popular premature baby exhibit that existed for forty years at one of Coney Island's largest amusement parks, Luna Park. From 1903 to 1943, 8,000 premature infants were cared for by Dr. Walter Baier and displayed to spectators who paid admission to view them. This is the story of Dr. Walther Baier and his family, chronicled through the narratives of the doctor, his wife, his daughter and his nurse. Was Dr. Baier showcasing the premature babies as freaks of nature, exploiting them for his own financial gain, or was he providing them with the highest level of healthcare which was their only hope for survival?

Coney Island Baby

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)

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The Kid of Coney Island

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349288
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis The Kid of Coney Island by : Woody Register

Download or read book The Kid of Coney Island written by Woody Register and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting his start as a promoter of carnival shows at world's fairs, Thompson was one of the principal developers of Coney Island, where he created the majestic Luna Park. Register traces Thompson's career as he built the mammoth Hippodrome Theater in Manhattan, where he mounted many productions noted for their spectacular--and spectacularly costly--staging effects. Register shows how Thompson's fantasies appealed to the growing legions of Americans who found themselves in a world that seemed increasingly "businesslike" and profit oriented. He illustrates how Thompson aggressively marketed to adult consumers a world of make-believe and childlike play, carefully crafting his own public image as "the boy who never grew up." Colorful, well-written, and insightful, The Kid of Coney Island brings to life a kaleidoscopic era in New York history as well as one of its most striking characters.

Amusing the Million

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429952237
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Amusing the Million by : John F. Kasson

Download or read book Amusing the Million written by John F. Kasson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island

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Publisher : New Harvest
ISBN 13 : 9780544262287
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lost Tribe of Coney Island by : Claire Prentice

Download or read book The Lost Tribe of Coney Island written by Claire Prentice and published by New Harvest. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.

Coney Island

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ISBN 13 : 9781580084550
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (845 download)

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Book Synopsis Coney Island by : Charles Denson

Download or read book Coney Island written by Charles Denson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denson gives us an insider's look at one of New York's best-known neighborhoods, weaving together memories of his childhood adventures with colorful stories of the area's past and interviews with local personalities, all brought to life by hundreds of photographs, detailed maps, and authentic memorabilia.

CONEY ISLAND BABY.

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Boardwalk Babies

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ISBN 13 : 9781939547668
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Book Synopsis Boardwalk Babies by : Marissa Moss

Download or read book Boardwalk Babies written by Marissa Moss and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century, there wasn't much hope for premature babies--until Dr. Couney developed the incubator. The device was so new and strange, hospitals rejected it. So Dr. Couney set up a sideshow at Coney Island, taking care of the tiniest newborns as part of a display to convince the public that incubators worked. Thousands of babies grew into healthy children as Boardwalk Babies, including Dr. Couney's own premature daughter. Many of those babies came back as adults to thank the doctor for his miracle cures. Science meets magic show in this fascinating true story.

Coney Island Baby

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ISBN 13 : 9783037310731
Total Pages : 229 pages
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Download or read book Coney Island Baby written by Nine Antico and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: