The Stoop

Eleven year old Earnest wants the summer of 1952 to be adventurous. So he cons his friend, Nicholas, into believing a saint directs them to save the world from Commie spies. Earnest learns much from, Guys and Dolls, a book he finds in the garbage. Applying what he learns, Earnest cons Lucky Luigi, a bully, out of a dollar. But then their lives become complexicated. After receiving a sign that the Commies are infilterating their Brooklyn neighborhood, Operation Top Secret is born. While investigating Commies Headquarters, Nicholas bumps into a thief who has just blown a mob bosss safe. After the thief drops the bag into a sewer, the boys fish it out and discover it contains sacred relics. Earnest and Nicholas hide from mobsters who will do anything to find the bag. Gutsy Gus helps the boys out of this and other jams. Suspicions increase when a limousine stops in front of the stoop and one very classy doll with a Russian accent pays a visit to Gutsy Gus. On the Stoop shares the rollicking adventures of two Brooklyn boys as they investigate suspicious events while dreading an even bigger problem: the nuns at St. Marys.

Travel with young Timothy O'Malley and his family as they depart their beloved Ireland in 1917, setting sail for the magic land called America; leaving behind grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles and friends; some of whom they knew they would never see again. Stand with the O'Mallys on the deck of the transatlantic ocean liner as they say their tearful good-byes and set sail for the other side of the world. Feel the wonderment young Timmy experiences as he sets out to learn all he can about the people and the country he will soon call home. Feel the excitement as it mounts in anticipation of seeing the beautiful and magic statue called Lady Liberty when he and his little sister Molly spot her for the first time far off on the horizon. Walk with Timothy as he begins his journey in Brooklyn, New York; the strange new city in this strange new land. Tag along as Timmy learns the importance of true friendship and the value of trust and love. Keep in step with Timmy as he grows from little boy to young man; meeting the challenges of life in a new country that takes him on his journey into manhood.

The light is failing and for the Stoop who inhabit the Drabworld, the encroaching darkness brings a terrible danger in the form of their dark-loving enemies the Gork. 11-14yrs.

Brooklyn S.T.O.O.P is about five boys who grew up in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Elijah, Stevey, Jamal, Malik, and Curtis unite through friendship on the Stoop.Throughout their adult years the boys experience hardship, but through the essence of the stoop the boys are bought back together. Brooklyn S.T.O.O.P also highlights why unity is important. Brooklyn S.T.O.O.P is also a book about prosperity and a vision of prosperity. The main objective of Brooklyn S.T.O.O.P is to show essence will always overcome personality. This book is not in anyway trying to depict the ghetto as negative. it is simply trying to explain that in the end, there will be prosperity in ones life no matter if things seem hopeless. Stay together, offer each other oppurtunity, and then we all will have prosperity.

Will Hamelin be summoned again? Hamelin suspects that his friend Layla is the lost princess from the Land of Gloaming. As he describes his daring adventures to trusted friends at the children's home, an intricate tapestry of stories emerges. Layla admits that she has had dreams - or are they memories? - of another world with faded light. The orphan boy is not alone in his struggle to learn the truth, search for family, and question the Ancient One's purposes. Meanwhile, dangerous forces continue to pursue the boy of both worlds, but the evil Chimera gives his agents an additional task: find the fourth princess, the missing daughter of Carr, and stop her. She must never return home.

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Volume contains: 155 NY 662 (Peo ex rel Eakins v. Roosevelt) Unreported Case (Peo ex rel Eakins v. Roosevelt)