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    Model Dwelling-Houses
    Model Dwelling-Houses ab 35.49 € als Taschenbuch: With a Description of the Model Tenement Erected Within the Grounds of the International Exhibition of Industry Scienc. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,
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    Squandered Prayers , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
    Coming of age in a cramped New York tenement, with a mentally-damaged mother who continually threatens to kill herself, is not easy for 19-year-old Dean Cassidy. Having a hot-headed father who goes berserk every time he throws one of his frequent maniacal tirades doesn't help either. Nevertheless, Dean is deeply in love with his girlfriend, and he wants so badly to show her off to his parents. Twice he brings her home, and both times the two kids witness scenes they will never forget. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alexander MacDonald. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/045357/bk_acx0_045357_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Three Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 384min
    One of the best novels to come out of the golden age of lesbian pulps, this 1958 classic returns to delight a new generation of readers. Phil Carlson's marriage proposal is 18-year-old Paula's ticket out of the tenement and dingy life with her alcoholic father. But the dream dissolves the moment Paula meets Byrne, Phil's wealthy aunt. Byrne, an artist who lives in Greenwich Village, is bewitched by Paula's crush on her and daringly allows it to blossom, despite the dark secret that forever ties her to another woman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kaylee West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/019849/bk_acx0_019849_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Church of Marvels: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 651min
    A ravishing first novel set in vibrant, tumultuous turn-of-the-century New York City, where the lives of four outsiders become entwined, bringing irrevocable change to them all. New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her. A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum - sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both. As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York - a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric vision of the past in a narrative of astonishing beauty, full of wondrous enchantments, a marvelous debut that will leave readers breathless. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denice Stradling. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004429/bk_harp_004429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Psmith, Journalist , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 404min
    Psmith, Journalistby P.G.WodehouseNarrated by Graham ScottListed in the BBC's "100 Novels That Shaped Our World", Psmith, Journalist takes Wodehouse's immaculate hero to the apparently dull city of New York, where he takes command of twee family periodical Cosy Moments, converts it to the yellowest of yellow journals, and embarks upon a crusade to unmask the owner of the notorious Pleasant Street tenements. But soon the staff of Cosy Moments find themselves dodging ambushes and assassination attempts, as the mysterious tenement owner tries to put them out of business - permanently; and war breaks out among New York's notorious street gangs... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Graham Scott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002908/bk_mike_002908_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mothers, Hörbuch, Digital, 87min
    The story of two single mothers - one Japanese, the other Appalachian - who struggle to raise their mixed-race children in a Chicago tenement. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring Lira Angel as Penny, Takayo Fischer as Grandmother/Others, Lynn Hamilton as Momma Rainey, John Herzog as Judge/Others, Lyvingston Holmes as Mrs. Ellis, Dorothy Lyman as Jean, Jeanne Mori as Mariko, Gina Ravarra as Tami, Monte Russell as Terrence/Others, and Brenda Varda as Donna/Barbara. Directed by Robert Robinson and recorded before an audience. Language: English. Narrator: Lira Angel, Takayo Fischer, Lynn Hamilton, John Herzog, Lyvingston Holmes, Dorothy Lyman, Jeanne Mori. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/pf/latw/000429/pf_latw_000429_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
    You've eaten too much candy at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-footstuffed Santa? You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You've woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection he recounts Christmases past and present - as only he could. With gimleteyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Augusten Burroughs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/001012/bk_aren_001012_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Glass Dog , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
    Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. "The Glass Dog" is about a wizard who lived on the top floor of a tenement building, always studying and pondering. He had all the books and formulas of all the wizards who had lived before him. Many folks came to him for help about their troubles, and these interruptions irritated him, so he thought of getting a dog to chase them. The glass blower next door makes him a glass dog, he enchants it to life and at first it serves its purpose well, but many complications arise.... ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Drew Baker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001583/bk_yurt_001583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    97 Orchard
    97 Orchard ab 7.99 € als epub eBook: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Wissenschaften allgemein,
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    Ellis Island: The History and Legacy of America's Most Famous Immigration Gateway , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 70min
    So, anyhow, we had to get off of the ship and we were put on a tender, which took us across to Ellis Island. And when I saw Ellis Island - it's a great, big place - I wondered what we were going to do in there. And we all had to get out of the tender, and then into this, and gather your bags in there, and the place was crowded with people, and talking, and crying - people were crying. And we passed, go through some of the halls there, and tried to remember that the halls, big halls, big open spaces there, and there was bars, and there was people behind these bars, and they were talking different languages, and I was scared to death. I thought I was in jail. (Mary Mullins, an Irish immigrant) By the middle of the 19th century, New York City's population surpassed the unfathomable number of one million people, despite its obvious lack of space. This was mostly due to the fact that so many immigrants heading to America naturally landed in New York Harbor, well before the federal government set up an official immigration system on Ellis Island. At first, the city itself set up its own immigration registration center in Castle Garden near the site of the original Fort Amsterdam, and naturally many of these immigrants, who were arriving with little more than the clothes on their back, didn't travel far and thus remained in New York. Of course, the addition of so many immigrants and others with less money put strains on the quality of life. Between 1862 and 1872, the number of tenements had risen from 12,000 to 20,000 and the number of tenement residents grew from 380,000 to 600,000. One notorious tenement on the East River, Gotham Court, housed 700 people on a 20-by-200-foot lot. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Gilboe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/035596/bk_acx0_035596_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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