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My Coney Island Baby

Author: Billy O'Callaghan

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1473558484

'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.

Coney Island Baby

Author: Larry Racioppo

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578985794

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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney

Author: Dawn Raffel

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1524744964

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“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!

Author: Jonathan Scott

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1477170685

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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 Dead House

Author: Billy O'Callaghan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1628729147

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Sometimes the past endures—and sometimes it never lets go. This best-selling debut by an award-winning writer is both an eerie contemporary ghost story and a dread-inducing psychological thriller. Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men. Her last put her in the hospital and, after she’s healed physically, left her needing to get out of London to heal mentally and find a place of quiet that will restore her creative spirit. On the rugged west coast of Ireland, perched on a wild cliff side, she spies the shell of a cottage that dates back to Great Famine and decides to buy it. When work on the house is done, she invites her dealer to come for the weekend to celebrate along with a couple of women friends, one of whom will become his wife. On the boozy last night, the other friend pulls out an Ouija board. What sinister thing they summon, once invited, will never go. Ireland is a country haunted by its past. In Billy O'Callaghan's hands, its terrible beauty becomes a force of inescapable horror that reaches far back in time, before the Famine, before Christianity, to a pagan place where nature and superstition are bound in an endless knot.

Luna Babies

Author: Carole Lee Limata

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9781532949661

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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?

The Light of Luna Park

Author: Addison Armstrong

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0593328043

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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.

A Coney Island of the Mind

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Coney Island

Author: Charles Denson

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781580084550

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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.